History of medicine books

43416 books were found.

When the Air Became Important: A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries

When the Air Became Important: A Social History of the...

Author: Janet Greenlees
ISBN: 9780813587967
Format: Hardback
$142.43

Examines the working environments of the heartlands of the British and American cotton textile industries from the...  Read More >>

Joseph Meister and the Final Wish: In all of history, no one had ever survived the ancient virus

Joseph Meister and the Final Wish: In all of history,...

Author: Patrick Moyer
ISBN: 9780578437545
Format: Paperback
$30.92

In 1885, in the Alsace region of Germany, a fatally infected dog attacked a young boy. Everyone knew he would soon...  Read More >>

Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India: Family, Market and Homoeopathy

Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India: Family, Market...

Author: Shinjini Das (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781108420624
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Combining insights from the history of colonial medicine and the cultural histories of family in British India,...  Read More >>

Physicians, Peasants and Modern Medicine: Imagining Rurality in Romania, 1860-1910

Physicians, Peasants and Modern Medicine: Imagining...

Author: Constantin Barbulescu
ISBN: 9789633862674
Format: Hardback
$237.60

This book provides a historical narrative about Romania’s modernization. It focuses on one group of the country’s...  Read More >>

Von Menschen Und Mikroben: Malaria Und Pest in Stalins Sowjetunion, 1929-1941

Von Menschen Und Mikroben: Malaria Und Pest in Stalins...

Author: Matthias Braun
ISBN: 9783447111898
Format: Paperback
$132.00

Die bolschewistischen Revolutionare fuhrten nach ihrem gewaltsamen Umsturz von 1917 ein koloniales Unterfangen fort,...  Read More >>

Roman Military Medicine: Survival in the Modern Wilderness

Roman Military Medicine: Survival in the Modern Wilderness...

Author: Valentine J. Belfiglio ,  Sylvia I. Sullivant
ISBN: 9781527530874
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This work sheds light on the mostly obscure topic of medicine and its use in the Roman military. It explores the...  Read More >>

I, Robot - I, Care

I, Robot - I, Care

Author: Claudia Hauck ,  Charlotte Uzarewicz
ISBN: 9783110558333
Format: Paperback
$59.97

In diesem Sammelband wird der aktuelle Stand der technologischen Entwicklung in der Pflege aufgezeigt und an ausgew�hlten...  Read More >>

Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine

Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped...

Author: Thomas Hager
ISBN: 9781419734403
Format: Hardback
$39.99

"Beginning with opium, the ""joy plant,"" which has been used for 10,000 years, Hager's subjects include the largely...  Read More >>

History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning

History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance...

Author: Nancy G. Siraisi
ISBN: 9780472037469
Format: Paperback
$118.67

Examines the intersections of medically trained authors and history, in the period 1450 to 1650. Rather than studying...  Read More >>

Medicine and Religion in the Life of an Ottoman Sheikh: Al-Damanhuri’s ""Clear Statement"" on Anatomy

Medicine and Religion in the Life of an Ottoman Sheikh:...

Author: Ahmed Ragab
ISBN: 9780367028978
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Louisa on the Front Lines: Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War

Louisa on the Front Lines: Louisa May Alcott in the...

Author: Samantha Seiple ,  Chloe Cannon
ISBN: 9781549124501
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$184.77

Louisa on the Frontlines is the first narrative nonfiction book focusing on the least-known aspect of Louisa May...  Read More >>

Medicine and Markets: Essays on Ancient Medicine in honour of Vivian Nutton

Medicine and Markets: Essays on Ancient Medicine in...

Author: Laurence Totelin ,  Rebecca Flemming
ISBN: 9781910589786
Format: Hardback
$181.13

The study of ancient medicine has been revolutionised over the last half century and Vivian Nutton has been a leading...  Read More >>

Managing Diabetes, Managing Medicine: Chronic Disease and Clinical Bureaucracy in Post-War Britain

Managing Diabetes, Managing Medicine: Chronic Disease...

Author: Martin D. Moore
ISBN: 9781526113078
Format: Hardback
$56.99

Through its study of British diabetes care, this book asks how such a shift occurred, how systems of management...  Read More >>

The Rhetoric of Medicine: Lessons on Professionalism from Ancient Greece

The Rhetoric of Medicine: Lessons on Professionalism...

Author: Nigel Nicholson (Reed College) ,  Nathan Selden (Oregon Health and Science University)
ISBN: 9780190457518
Format: Undefined
$195.36

The Rhetoric of Medicine explores problems that confront medical professionals today by first examining similar...  Read More >>

Women's Bodies and Medical Science: An Inquiry into Cervical Cancer

Women's Bodies and Medical Science: An Inquiry into...

Author: L. Bryder
ISBN: 9781349589159
Format: Paperback
$84.99

An analysis of a scandal involving a doctor accused of allowing a number of women to develop cervical cancer from...  Read More >>

A Violent History of Benevolence: Interlocking Oppression in the Moral Economies of Social Working

A Violent History of Benevolence: Interlocking Oppression...

Author: Chris Chapman ,  A.J. Withers
ISBN: 9781442637313
Format: Hardback
$270.00

A Violent History of Benevolence traces how standard histories of liberalism, progress, and social work are inextricable...  Read More >>

Post-War Eugenics, Reproductive Choices and Population Policies in Greece, 1950s–1980s

Post-War Eugenics, Reproductive Choices and Population...

Author: Alexandra Barmpouti
ISBN: 9783030035679
Format: Hardback
$155.22

This book sheds light on the history of Greek eugenics during the post-war period. Alexandra Barmpouti, however,...  Read More >>

A Violent History of Benevolence: Interlocking Oppression in the Moral Economies of Social Working

A Violent History of Benevolence: Interlocking Oppression...

Author: Chris Chapman ,  A.J. Withers
ISBN: 9781442628861
Format: Paperback
$89.99

A Violent History of Benevolence traces how standard histories of liberalism, progress, and social work are inextricable...  Read More >>

Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth

Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth

Author: Wendy Kline (Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine, Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine, Purdue University)
ISBN: 9780190232511
Format: Hardback
$67.95

Coming Home tells the story of how a significant number of parents in postwar America opted out of the standardized...  Read More >>

The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris

The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria,...

Author: Mark Honigsbaum ,  John Lee
ISBN: 9781665127110
Format: Audio
$105.57

A medical historian narrates the last century of scientific struggle against an enduring enemy: deadly contagious...  Read More >>

Opium: A History

Opium: A History

Author: Martin Booth ,  Julian Elfer
ISBN: 9798200365104
Format: Audio
$65.97

Chronicles the history and often unexplored cultural impact of a narcotic whose use has spanned centuries and forms,...  Read More >>

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