History of medicine books

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Murder and Madness on Trial: A Tale of True Crime from Early Modern Bologna

Murder and Madness on Trial: A Tale of True Crime from...

Author: Mònica Calabritto (The Graduate Center at Hunter College, CUNY)
ISBN: 9780271095097
Format: Paperback
$70.99

"""Explores the 1588 murder trial of Paolo Barbieri in Bologna, examining early modern violence, madness, criminal...  Read More >>

Compassion as Remedy in Tibetan Medicine: Healing through Limitless Compassion

Compassion as Remedy in Tibetan Medicine: Healing through...

Author: Jampa Yonten ,  Kyle Weaner
ISBN: 9781948626927
Format: Paperback
$50.13

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Murder and Madness on Trial: A Tale of True Crime from Early Modern Bologna

Murder and Madness on Trial: A Tale of True Crime from...

Author: Mònica Calabritto (The Graduate Center at Hunter College, CUNY)
ISBN: 9780271095080
Format: Hardback
$249.00

""Explores the 1588 murder trial of Paolo Barbieri in Bologna, examining early modern violence, madness, criminal...  Read More >>

The Heroes History: The undying story of the very last heroes/ heroin

The Heroes History: The undying story of the very last...

Author: Harvey Victor
ISBN: 9798396210172
Format: Paperback
$21.09

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Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America...

Author: Jennifer Vanderbes
ISBN: 9780525512264
Format: Hardback
$76.53

“A shocking saga of pharmaceutical malpractice . . . Wonder Drug is both a first-rate medical thriller and the searing...  Read More >>

History of Critical Care Medicine (2023 = 70th anniversary), An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

History of Critical Care Medicine (2023 = 70th anniversary),...

Author: Hannah Wunsch, MD MSc (Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre)
ISBN: 9780323940115
Format: Hardback
$208.53

"In this issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest editor Dr. Hannah Wunsch brings her considerable expertise to the...  Read More >>

Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations

Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of...

Author: Simon Schama
ISBN: 9781471169908
Format: Paperback
$43.96

An epic story of humanity’s struggle against pandemics from the renowned historian and broadcaster  Read More >>

Ivan Pavlov: A Very Short Introduction

Ivan Pavlov: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Daniel P. Todes (Professor Emeritus of History of Medicine, Professor Emeritus of History of Medicine, John Hopkins University)
ISBN: 9780190906696
Format: Paperback
$20.95

"In this book, Daniel P. Todes provides concise introduction to the life and science of the great Russian physiologist...  Read More >>

Endokrinologie Und Humanontogenese: Gunter Dorner Zum Gedenken

Endokrinologie Und Humanontogenese: Gunter Dorner Zum...

Author: Wolfgang Rohde ,  Karl-Friedrich Wessel
ISBN: 9783832556778
Format: Paperback
$190.08

"Mit dieser Festschrift ehren wir den Mitbegrunder der Humanontogenetik Gunter Dorner (1929-2018), der bereits Anfang...  Read More >>

Sir Thomas Browne: The Opium of Time

Sir Thomas Browne: The Opium of Time

Author: Gavin Francis (GP and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of General Practitioner)
ISBN: 9780192858177
Format: Hardback
$44.95

In this book, Gavin Francis writes about the resonance for him as medic in reading the work of early modern polymath...  Read More >>

Beyond Cadfael: Medieval Medicine and Medical Medievalism

Beyond Cadfael: Medieval Medicine and Medical Medievalism...

Author: Lucy C. Barnhouse ,  Winston Black
ISBN: 9786156405807
Format: Hardback
$188.10

Medievalism and medieval medicine are vibrant subfields of medieval studies, enjoying sustained scholarly attention...  Read More >>

Sanctorius Sanctorius and the Origins of Health Measurement

Sanctorius Sanctorius and the Origins of Health Measurement...

Author: Teresa Hollerbach
ISBN: 9783031301209
Format: Paperback
$90.54

This open access book offers new insights into the Venetian physician Sanctorius Sanctorius (1561–1636) and into...  Read More >>

Sanctorius Sanctorius and the Origins of Health Measurement

Sanctorius Sanctorius and the Origins of Health Measurement...

Author: Teresa Hollerbach
ISBN: 9783031301179
Format: Hardback
$158.37

This open access book offers new insights into the Venetian physician Sanctorius Sanctorius (1561–1636) and into...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Disability in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Disability in Antiquity

Author: Professor Christian Laes (University of Manchester, UK)
ISBN: 9781350028524
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Though there was not even a word for, or a concept of, disability in Antiquity, a considerable part of the population...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance

A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance...

Author: Dr Susan Anderson (Sheffiled Hallam University, UK) ,  Dr Liam Haydon (United Kingdom Research and Innovation, UK)
ISBN: 9781350028876
Format: Hardback
$290.40

In Renaissance humanism, difference was understood through a variety of paradigms that rendered particular kinds...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages

A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages...

Author: Dr Jonathan Hsy (George Washington University, USA) ,  Professor Tory V. Pearman (Miami University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350028715
Format: Hardback
$290.40

The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century

A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth...

Author: Dr D. Christopher Gabbard (University of North Florida, USA) ,  Susannah B. Mintz (Skidmore College, USA)
ISBN: 9781350028913
Format: Hardback
$290.40

18th century philosopher Edmund Burke wrote, ‘deformity is opposed, not to beauty, but to the complete, common form....  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century

A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth...

Author: Professor Joyce L. Huff (Ball State University, USA) ,  Professor Martha Stoddard Holmes (California State University San Marcos, USA)
ISBN: 9781350029071
Format: Hardback
$150.00

The long 19th century—stretching from the start of the American Revolution in 1776 to the end of World War I in...  Read More >>

Psychedelic New York: A History of LSD in the City

Psychedelic New York: A History of LSD in the City

Author: Chris Elcock
ISBN: 9780228016724
Format: Paperback
$72.42

A hub for the production, distribution, investigation, and consumption of psychedelics, New York City gave birth...  Read More >>

Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West

Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval...

Author: Timothy S. Miller ,  John W. Nesbitt
ISBN: 9781501770838
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Timothy Miller and John Nesbitt remind us that the history of leprosy in the West is incomplete without considering...  Read More >>

Paediatrics in the Reichsuniversität Straßburg: Children's Medicine at a Bastion of Nazi Ideology

Paediatrics in the Reichsuniversität Straßburg: Children's...

Author: Aisling Shalvey
ISBN: 9781804130896
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Examines the experience of paediatric patients, and the staff who determined their treatment, in the Reichsuniversitat...  Read More >>

Neuroliterature 2 Biography, Semiology, Miscellany: Further literary perspectives on disorders of the nervous system

Neuroliterature 2 Biography, Semiology, Miscellany:...

Author: Andrew J Larner
ISBN: 9781789633696
Format: Paperback
$65.87

"An exploration of the interrelationships between neurology and literature, hence ""neuroliterature"". It will...  Read More >>

The Cosmological Doctors of Classical Greece: First Principles in Early Greek Medicine

The Cosmological Doctors of Classical Greece: First...

Author: David H. Camden (St Paul's School, New Hampshire)
ISBN: 9781009202992
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Revises customary views about the relationship between 'medicine,' 'cosmology,' and 'philosophy' in the fifth and...  Read More >>

American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics

American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men...

Author: Kevin Hazzard
ISBN: 9780306926075
Format: Hardback
$55.00

The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics...  Read More >>

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