History of medicine books

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Featuring new archival research, The Intimate State traces the modern importance of intimate relationships alongside...  Read More >>

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Why and how did the strategy of documenting medical practices through personal experience rise to prominence in...  Read More >>

Why and how did the strategy of documenting medical practices through personal experience rise to prominence in...  Read More >>

"La medicina è un'arte complessa che richiede una profonda comprensione della scienza, ma va oltre i meri concetti...  Read More >>

Aimed at postgraduate students of the English language and all those interested in the history of the English language,...  Read More >>

"Plagues, pandemics, and infectious diseases have shaped the history of the Jewish people. Of course, there were...  Read More >>

"Plagues, pandemics, and infectious diseases have shaped the history of the Jewish people. Of course, there were...  Read More >>

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The poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in...  Read More >>

An estimated six million people perished in the famine of 1921-23 in Soviet Russia and Ukraine, but millions survived...  Read More >>

What happens when we juxtapose medicine and law in the ancient Roman world? This book shows how both fields were...  Read More >>

This book discusses how understandings of public health have developed in their political and social context over...  Read More >>

The 'Vita Karoli Magni' is a biography of Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor, written by his...  Read More >>

This collective biography illuminates how the lives and successes of fourteen African American physicians who became...  Read More >>

From ancient Egypt to Imperial Rome, from Greek medicine to early Christianity, this volume examines how human bodily...  Read More >>

A compelling history of how popular phrenology featured in the fates of people living in, and moving through, the...  Read More >>

This book discusses how early modern legal and medical definitions of intellectual disability influenced the characterisation...  Read More >>

This book provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East without spending...  Read More >>

By triangulating the Greco-Roman world, classical reception and disability studies, this book presents a range of...  Read More >>

This book explores the thoroughly human dimension of the health care and prevention responses to the HIV crisis...  Read More >>

This book offers a detailed history of plastic surgery procedures and their development from the ancient world,...  Read More >>

"Cologne University Medicine was involved in injustice and crimes during the Nazi era. Employees were dismissed...  Read More >>

This open access book offers the first in-depth study of the history and current debates surrounding electronic...  Read More >>