History of medicine books

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The Last Great Plague of Colonial India

The Last Great Plague of Colonial India

Author: Natasha Sarkar (Commissioning Editor, Humanities, Commissioning Editor, Humanities, Oxford University Press)
ISBN: 9780198873228
Format: Hardback
$161.95

This study examines the political, social, economic, and demographic dimensions of the plague pandemic which affected...  Read More >>

Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War

Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America...

Author: Susan E Lederer ,  Lisa S Ware
ISBN: 9798874778446
Format: Audio
$105.57

"The first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the period ""before Tuskegee""--from...  Read More >>

Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War

Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America...

Author: Susan E Lederer ,  Lisa S Ware
ISBN: 9798874778453
Format: Audio
$121.31

"The first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the period ""before Tuskegee""--from...  Read More >>

Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession: A Gendered Opportunity

Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession:...

Author: Jane Brooks
ISBN: 9781526167422
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This book bears witness to the personal experiences of Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe in the highly gendered profession...  Read More >>

This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women

This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women

Author: Marieke Bigg
ISBN: 9781529377729
Format: Paperback
$26.99

The past, present and future of the sexism inherent in medicine and medical research - and how to change it  Read More >>

Bombay Presidency, 1850-1920: Disease, Sanitation and Public Health Personalities

Bombay Presidency, 1850-1920: Disease, Sanitation and...

Author: Mridula Ramanna
ISBN: 9789358521511
Format: Hardback
$145.07

This work focuses on the major health and sanitation problems of the nineteenth century: the health of the European...  Read More >>

Die Lehren des Pulses vom Ufer des Sees: Bin Hu Mai Xue

Die Lehren des Pulses vom Ufer des Sees: Bin Hu Mai...

Author: Lucas Stasinski ,  Helge Winckler
ISBN: 9798870873862
Format: Paperback
$104.81

"Von Li Shi Zhen im Jahre 1564 erstmals ver�ffentlicht, dient das Bin Hu Mai Xue bis in die Gegenwart chinesischen...  Read More >>

Hippocratis De affectionibus / Hippocrates, On Affections

Hippocratis De affectionibus / Hippocrates, On Affections...

Author: Pilar Pérez Cañizares
ISBN: 9783111000299
Format: Hardback
$469.89

A considerable number of ancient medical texts has not been yet edited drawing on the whole manuscript tradition....  Read More >>

A Body Made of Glass Lib/E: A Cultural History of Hypochondria

A Body Made of Glass Lib/E: A Cultural History of Hypochondria...

Author: Caroline Crampton
ISBN: 9798212902120
Format: Audio
$190.05

Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography...  Read More >>

A Literary History of Medicine: The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah. Volume 1: Essays

A Literary History of Medicine: The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī...

Author: Emilie Savage-Smith ,  Simon Swain
ISBN: 9789004696556
Format: Paperback
$155.76

A Literary History of Medicine offers a complete, annotated translation along with a new edition of the celebrated,...  Read More >>

A Literary History of Medicine: The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah. Volume 2-1: Arabic Edition

A Literary History of Medicine: The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī...

Author: Emilie Savage-Smith ,  Simon Swain
ISBN: 9789004696563
Format: Paperback
$155.76

A Literary History of Medicine offers a complete, annotated translation along with a new edition of the celebrated,...  Read More >>

A Literary History of Medicine: The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah. Volume 3-1: Annotated English Translation

A Literary History of Medicine: The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī...

Author: Emilie Savage-Smith ,  Simon Swain
ISBN: 9789004696587
Format: Paperback
$155.76

A Literary History of Medicine offers a complete, annotated translation along with a new edition of the celebrated,...  Read More >>

A Literary History of Medicine: The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah. Volume 2-2: Arabic Edition

A Literary History of Medicine: The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī...

Author: Emilie Savage-Smith ,  Simon Swain
ISBN: 9789004696570
Format: Paperback
$155.76

A Literary History of Medicine offers a complete, annotated translation along with a new edition of the celebrated,...  Read More >>

A Literary History of Medicine: The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah. Volume 3-2: Annotated English Translation and Appendices

A Literary History of Medicine: The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī...

Author: Emilie Savage-Smith ,  Simon Swain
ISBN: 9789004696594
Format: Paperback
$155.76

A Literary History of Medicine offers a complete, annotated translation along with a new edition of the celebrated,...  Read More >>

Death to Beauty: The Transformative History of Botox

Death to Beauty: The Transformative History of Botox...

Author: Eugene M Helveston ,  Kyle Snyder
ISBN: 9798874764364
Format: Audio
$176.85

"In the 1970s, Dr. Alan Scott sought to selectively weaken eye muscles to treat strabismus (when one or both eyes...  Read More >>

Mind Museums: Former Asylums and the Heritage of Mental Health

Mind Museums: Former Asylums and the Heritage of Mental...

Author: Francesca Lanz
ISBN: 9781032193984
Format: Hardback
$103.00

Mind Museums offer a fresh perspective on the heritage of mental health, bringing museums into sharp focus by examining...  Read More >>

The Open Heart Club: A Story about Birth and Death and Cardiac Surgery

The Open Heart Club: A Story about Birth and Death and...

Author: Gabriel Brownstein
ISBN: 9781610399487
Format: Paperback
$52.77

This history of the heart and cardiac medicine--as told by a writer with a congenital heart defect--ponders issues...  Read More >>

Rickets, Race and Reproduction: Contracted Pelvis and the American Way of Birth

Rickets, Race and Reproduction: Contracted Pelvis and...

Author: Deborah Kuhn McGregor ,  Robert Kuhn McGregor
ISBN: 9781476693712
Format: Paperback
$127.60

Outlines the history of rickets, a disease commonly associated with childhood, and studies its association with...  Read More >>

Mulheres Gravidas

Mulheres Gravidas

Author: Rony Martins
ISBN: 9798321564035
Format: Paperback
$52.54

"""Mulheres Gr�vidas"" � um livro visualmente deslumbrante que retrata a beleza e a alegria da maternidade. Com...  Read More >>

The Confederate Navy Medical Corps: Organization, Personnel and Actions

The Confederate Navy Medical Corps: Organization, Personnel...

Author: Guy R. Hasegawa
ISBN: 9781476694511
Format: Paperback
$68.20

The first book devoted entirely to the medical corps of the Confederate navy, this volume provides a carefully researched...  Read More >>

Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton...

Author: Kathryn Olivarius
ISBN: 9780674295551
Format: Paperback
$38.95

In antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were...  Read More >>

The Politics of Disease: An American History from Columbus to Covid

The Politics of Disease: An American History from Columbus...

Author: David R. Petriello
ISBN: 9781476691107
Format: Paperback
$68.20

From the 16th century to the present, this work traces the interactions of disease and politics in the United States....  Read More >>

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French...

Author: Manon Mathias
ISBN: 9781032427812
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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