History of medicine books

Though the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized...  Read More >>

Discussing topics such as medical ethics, diagnostic explanations of illness and disease, matters of sex and gender,...  Read More >>

A biography of James Edmund Reeves, whose legislative accomplishments cemented American physicians' control of the...  Read More >>

In this detailed history Jim Kristofic traces the story of Ganado Mission on the Navajo Indian Reservation. Kristofic's...  Read More >>

This volume presents an innovative look at early modern medicine and natural philosophy as historically interrelated...  Read More >>

This book discusses contemporary techniques for inferring, from options and bond prices, the market participants'...  Read More >>

Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy examines the roles that the home, the garden, and the members of...  Read More >>

This book proposes various ways of conceptualizing the body and of examining its relationship to history and historiography....  Read More >>

Perhaps more than any other American city, Chicago has been a center for the study of both urban history and economic...  Read More >>

This book traces the American history of one of the most controversial procedures in medicine, and seeks to provide...  Read More >>

This is the first accessible historical overview of the partnership between science and the state from the Scientific...  Read More >>

Perhaps more than any other American city, Chicago has been a center for the study of both urban history and economic...  Read More >>

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. “You...  Read More >>

Eruptive Fevers is a collection of lectures, which together describe the medical establishment's understanding of...  Read More >>

Our Family Doctor is a medical primer dating to the late 19th century, designed for use in the home - it is reprinted...  Read More >>

Ophthalmologist Nathaniel L. MacBride discusses the various maladies of the eye - first published in 1897, this...  Read More >>

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"Stepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, ""Mutants"" gives a brilliant narrative account of man's...  Read More >>

"Stepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, ""Mutants"" gives a brilliant narrative account of man's...  Read More >>

"In 1895, Daniel David Palmer performed the first chiropractic adjustment. Now regarded as the ""father"" of chiropractic...  Read More >>

Mit der Ver�ffentlichung der Kleinen Schriften von Jutta Kollesch soll deren langj�hrige T�tigkeit als Leiterin...  Read More >>

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This book draws largely on my unpublished Doctoral Thesis: A Space of Their Own: Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums...  Read More >>