History of medicine books

43416 books were found.

The Advance of Neuroscience: Twelve Topics from the Victorian Era to Today

The Advance of Neuroscience: Twelve Topics from the...

Author: Lori A. Schmied
ISBN: 9781476665573
Format: Paperback
$48.40

"""This book explores topics on the brain, psychoactive drugs, and a variety of human behaviors and experiences...  Read More >>

130 Years of Medicine in Hong Kong: From the College of Medicine for Chinese to the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine

130 Years of Medicine in Hong Kong: From the College...

Author: Frank Ching
ISBN: 9789811338793
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book reviews the medical history of Hong Kong, beginning with its birth as a British colony. It introduces...  Read More >>

Imperatives of Care: Women and Medicine in Colonial Korea

Imperatives of Care: Women and Medicine in Colonial...

Author: Sonja M. Kim
ISBN: 9780824855451
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Places women and gender at the centre of modern medical transformations in Korea. This book outlines the professionalization...  Read More >>

St. Bartholomew's Hospital in Peace and War: The Rede Lecture, 1915 (Classic Reprint)

St. Bartholomew's Hospital in Peace and War: The Rede...

Author: Norman Moore
ISBN: 9781331383116
Format: Paperback
$25.26

Excerpt from St. Bartholomew's Hospital in Peace and War: The Rede Lecture, 1915 By which remotest regions are allied...  Read More >>

White Drug Cultures and Regulation in London, 1916–1960

White Drug Cultures and Regulation in London, 1916–1960...

Author: Christopher Hallam
ISBN: 9783030069131
Format: Paperback
$129.35

This book traces the history of the London ‘white drugs’ (opiate and cocaine) subculture from the First World War...  Read More >>

Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay: Shackled Bodies, Unchained Minds

Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay: Shackled Bodies,...

Author: Sarah Ann Pinto
ISBN: 9783030068189
Format: Paperback
$116.41

The book argues that the colonial lunatic asylum failed to assimilate into Indian society and therefore remained...  Read More >>

Knowledge, Power, and Women's Reproductive Health in Japan, 1690–1945

Knowledge, Power, and Women's Reproductive Health in...

Author: Yuki Terazawa
ISBN: 9783030103125
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This book analyzes how women’s bodies became a subject and object of modern bio-power by examining the history of...  Read More >>

A History of Surgery: Third Edition

A History of Surgery: Third Edition

Author: Harold Ellis (Sala Abdalla BSc MBBS MRCS is a senior Specialist Registrar in General Surgery based in London and a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, UK.) ,  Sala Abdalla (Imperial College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138617391
Format: Paperback
$120.00

Written in a lively and engaging style, by a medical author and teacher of great renown, this book provides a fascinating...  Read More >>

The Commentaries Upon the Aphorisms of Dr. Herman Bo rhaave, the Late Learned Professor of Physick in the University of Leyden, Vol. 1: Concerning the Knowledge and Cure of the Several Diseases Incident to Human Bodies (Classic Reprint)

The Commentaries Upon the Aphorisms of Dr. Herman Bo...

Author: Gerard Swieten
ISBN: 9781332255702
Format: Paperback
$43.74

Excerpt from The Commentaries Upon the Aphorisms of Dr. Herman Bo rhaave, the Late Learned Professor of Physick...  Read More >>

An Essay on Mathematical Language, or an Introduction to the Mathematical Sciences (Classic Reprint)

An Essay on Mathematical Language, or an Introduction...

Author: Giovanni Alberto Baselli
ISBN: 9781334664410
Format: Paperback
$32.58

Excerpt from An Essay on Mathematical Language, or an Introduction to the Mathematical Sciences Rev. Mr. Dainicker,...  Read More >>

A Short Account of the Malignant Fever, Lately Prevalent in Philadelphia: With a Statement of the Proceedings That Took Place on the Subject, in Different Parts of the United States (Classic Reprint)

A Short Account of the Malignant Fever, Lately Prevalent...

Author: Mathew Carey
ISBN: 9781334321412
Format: Paperback
$24.81

Excerpt from A Short Account of the Malignant Fever, Lately Prevalent in Philadelphia: With a Statement of the Proceedings...  Read More >>

An Account of the Nature, Causes, Symptoms and Cure of Loosnesses (Classic Reprint)

An Account of the Nature, Causes, Symptoms and Cure...

Author: W Cockburn
ISBN: 9781334690747
Format: Paperback
$25.49

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Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain: Beyond the Spectre of the Drunkard

Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain: Beyond...

Author: Thora Hands
ISBN: 9783030065584
Format: Paperback
$51.75

This open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and the wartime regulations...  Read More >>

A New and Accurate System of Natural History, Vol. 1 of 6 (Classic Reprint)

A New and Accurate System of Natural History, Vol. 1...

Author: R Brookes
ISBN: 9781332168187
Format: Paperback
$32.58

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Observations on the Nature and Theory of Vision: With an Inquiry Into the Cause of the Single Appearance of Objects Seen by Both Eyes (Classic Reprint)

Observations on the Nature and Theory of Vision: With...

Author: John Crisp
ISBN: 9781333795825
Format: Paperback
$24.81

Excerpt from Observations on the Nature and Theory of Vision: With an Inquiry Into the Cause of the Single Appearance...  Read More >>

Psychiatry and the Holocaust

Psychiatry and the Holocaust

Author: John Read ,  Jeffrey Masson
ISBN: 9780415854054
Format: Hardback
$207.00

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Jews in Medicine: Contributions to Health and Healing Through the Ages

Jews in Medicine: Contributions to Health and Healing...

Author: Ronald L. Eisenberg, MD
ISBN: 9789655243000
Format: Hardback
$93.12

Requiring no specialized medical or Jewish knowledge to appreciate this book, Jews in Medicine documents the fascinating...  Read More >>

Elements of the Theory and Practice of Physic, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Elements of the Theory and Practice of Physic, Vol....

Author: George Gregory
ISBN: 9781333608064
Format: Paperback
$35.16

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Medical Stigmata: Race, Medicine, and the Pursuit of Theological Liberation

Medical Stigmata: Race, Medicine, and the Pursuit of...

Author: Kirk A. Johnson
ISBN: 9789811348129
Format: Paperback
$103.47

This book therefore links medicine and American eugenics, examines race-based medicine’s influence on the perception...  Read More >>

LSD: My problem child

LSD: My problem child

Author: Albert Hofmann (Deceased)
ISBN: 9780198840206
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Albert Hofmann, who died in 2008 aged 102, synthesised LSD in 1938. Although his work produced other important drugs,...  Read More >>

Hereditary Physicians of Kerala: Traditional Medicine and Ayurveda in Modern India

Hereditary Physicians of Kerala: Traditional Medicine...

Author: Indudharan Menon
ISBN: 9781138617308
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines the history and evolution of Ayurveda and indigenous medical traditions in juxtaposition with...  Read More >>

An Account and Method of Cure of the Bronchocele, or Derby Neck: To Which Are Subjoined, Remarks on Some Parts of Mr. Alexander's Experimental Essays (Classic Reprint)

An Account and Method of Cure of the Bronchocele, or...

Author: Thomas Prosser
ISBN: 9781334684265
Format: Paperback
$24.81

Excerpt from An Account and Method of Cure of the Bronchocele, or Derby Neck: To Which Are Subjoined, Remarks on...  Read More >>

Diabetes Mellitus: Its History, Chemistry, Anatomy, Pathology, Physiology, and Treatment

Diabetes Mellitus: Its History, Chemistry, Anatomy,...

Author: William Morgan
ISBN: 9781789870220
Format: Paperback
$23.24

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Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda

Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda

Author: Yolana Pringle
ISBN: 9781137600943
Format: Hardback
$49.99

This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. As Pringle shows, however,...  Read More >>

The Magical and Sacred Medical World

The Magical and Sacred Medical World

Author: Eva Pocs
ISBN: 9781527522527
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This collection of papers explores the sacred and magical aspects of ethno-medicine.  Read More >>

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