History of medicine books

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The Global Biopolitics of the IUD: How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies

The Global Biopolitics of the IUD: How Science Constructs...

Author: Chikako Takeshita
ISBN: 9780262547840
Format: Paperback
$69.99

The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive...  Read More >>

The Couch, the Clinic, and the Scanner: Stories from Three Revolutionary Eras of the Mind

The Couch, the Clinic, and the Scanner: Stories from...

Author: David Hellerstein
ISBN: 9780231207928
Format: Hardback
$52.95

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Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance

Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in...

Author: Michael Stolberg
ISBN: 9783111270791
Format: Paperback
$51.39

Michael Stolberg offers the first comprehensive presentation of medical training and day-to-day medical practice...  Read More >>

Das Mikrobielle in der Literatur und Kultur der Moderne: Zur Wissensgeschichte eines ephemeren Gegenstands (1880-1930)

Das Mikrobielle in der Literatur und Kultur der Moderne:...

Author: Martina King
ISBN: 9783111254876
Format: Paperback
$51.39

The book traces the everyday cultural, aesthetic, and ethical impact of bacteriology research on the cultural epoch...  Read More >>

Lazaretto: How Philadelphia Used an Unpopular Quarantine Based on Disputed Science to Accommodate Immigrants and Prevent Epidemics

Lazaretto: How Philadelphia Used an Unpopular Quarantine...

Author: David S. Barnes (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781421446448
Format: Hardback
$82.99

""This book tells the compelling story of public health efforts in 19th-century Philadelphia directed at preventing...  Read More >>

Gallant Little Wales: The Welsh Hospital: Service in Adversity During the Boer War

Gallant Little Wales: The Welsh Hospital: Service in...

Author: David Jones
ISBN: 9781800993969
Format: Paperback
$25.85

The hitherto untold story of a civilian tented hospital, raised by public subscription in Wales. It travelled to...  Read More >>

The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend...

Author: Lindsey Fitzharris
ISBN: 9781250872920
Format: Paperback
$52.80

A biography of the plastic surgeon Harold Gillies with an emphasis on the development of plastic surgery during...  Read More >>

Schriften Zu Fitness Und Gymnastik: Griechisch - Deutsch

Schriften Zu Fitness Und Gymnastik: Griechisch - Deutsch...

Author: Galenos ,  Kai Brodersen
ISBN: 9783111246116
Format: Hardback
$87.09

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Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion

Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion...

Author: Richard Conniff ,  Tom Beyer
ISBN: 9798212965224
Format: Audio
$65.97

"""From the discovery of microorganisms to the end of smallpox, the story of how we came to understand the infectious...  Read More >>

Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion

Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion...

Author: Richard Conniff ,  Tom Beyer
ISBN: 9798212965217
Format: Audio
$65.97

"""From the discovery of microorganisms to the end of smallpox, the story of how we came to understand the infectious...  Read More >>

The Masters of Medicine: Our Greatest Triumphs in the Race to Cure Humanity's Deadliest Diseases

The Masters of Medicine: Our Greatest Triumphs in the...

Author: Andrew Lam ,  Jason Vu
ISBN: 9798212719124
Format: Audio
$65.97

An in-depth look at the mavericks, moments, and mistakes that sparked the greatest medical discoveries in modern...  Read More >>

The Masters of Medicine: Our Greatest Triumphs in the Race to Cure Humanity's Deadliest Diseases

The Masters of Medicine: Our Greatest Triumphs in the...

Author: Andrew Lam ,  Jason Vu
ISBN: 9798212719131
Format: Audio
$65.97

An in-depth look at the mavericks, moments, and mistakes that sparked the greatest medical discoveries in modern...  Read More >>

Schizophrenogen: Eine Wissensgeschichte Des Verhaltnisses Zwischen Schizophrenie, Familie Und Gesellschaft (1948-1980)

Schizophrenogen: Eine Wissensgeschichte Des Verhaltnisses...

Author: Marina Lienhard
ISBN: 9783796547201
Format: Paperback
$163.68

Wie die angloamerikanischen Psychowissenschaften wahrend des Kalten Kriegs die Familie als schizophrenogene Umgebung...  Read More >>

My Father's Brain: Understanding Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s

My Father's Brain: Understanding Life in the Shadow...

Author: Sandeep Jauhar
ISBN: 9780861544493
Format: Hardback
$39.99

A son's journey through his father's dementia  Read More >>

Ecriture, Reecriture Ou Citation: Les Procedes de Composition Des Textes Medicaux Antiques

Ecriture, Reecriture Ou Citation: Les Procedes de Composition...

Author: Brigitte Maire ,  Nathalie Rousseau
ISBN: 9783796542251
Format: Hardback
$277.20

Cet ouvrage explore la genese et le devenir des traites et des corpus qui, de la Grece classique a la Rome imperiale,...  Read More >>

Radical Prescription: Citizenship and the Politics of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Cuba

Radical Prescription: Citizenship and the Politics of...

Author: Kelly Urban
ISBN: 9781469673080
Format: Paperback
$59.40

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Pellagra and Pellagrous Insanity During the Long Nineteenth Century

Pellagra and Pellagrous Insanity During the Long Nineteenth...

Author: David Gentilcore ,  Egidio Priani
ISBN: 9783031224980
Format: Paperback
$90.54

Setting pellagrous insanity in a wider context of man-made or societal (anthropogenic) disease, where poverty, diet...  Read More >>

Radical Prescription: Citizenship and the Politics of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Cuba

Radical Prescription: Citizenship and the Politics of...

Author: Kelly Urban
ISBN: 9781469673073
Format: Hardback
$168.30

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Pellagra and Pellagrous Insanity During the Long Nineteenth Century

Pellagra and Pellagrous Insanity During the Long Nineteenth...

Author: David Gentilcore ,  Egidio Priani
ISBN: 9783031224959
Format: Hardback
$116.41

Setting pellagrous insanity in a wider context of man-made or societal (anthropogenic) disease, where poverty, diet...  Read More >>

What We Bring to the Practice of Medicine: Perspectives from Women Physicians

What We Bring to the Practice of Medicine: Perspectives...

Author: Kimberly Greene-Liebowitz ,  Dana Corriel
ISBN: 9781606354490
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Brings together a collection of short essays from women physicians working in diverse fields of medicine around...  Read More >>

Medical Writings from Early Medieval England

Medical Writings from Early Medieval England

Author: John D. Niles ,  Maria A. D'Aronco
ISBN: 9780674290822
Format: Hardback
$61.95

Medical Writings from Early Medieval England presents vernacular texts on health and healing—unique local remedies...  Read More >>

Alcohol and Liver Cirrhosis in Twentieth-Century Britain

Alcohol and Liver Cirrhosis in Twentieth-Century Britain...

Author: Ryosuke Yokoe
ISBN: 9783031271069
Format: Hardback
$284.60

The relationship between alcohol consumption and liver cirrhosis has long been contested by doctors and medical...  Read More >>

Faster Cures: Accelerating the Future of Health

Faster Cures: Accelerating the Future of Health

Author: Michael Milken
ISBN: 9780063260214
Format: Hardback
$57.99

"""The definitive history of the work being carried out by Michael Milken and the Milken Institute to accelerate...  Read More >>

A History of Vaccines and their Opponents

A History of Vaccines and their Opponents

Author: Ian R Tizard, BVMS, PhD, DSc (H), ACVM (H) (Texas A &M University, College Station, Texas, USA)
ISBN: 9780443134340
Format: Paperback
$396.00

The coronavirus pandemic that began in 2019 brought to the fore the presence of a significant minority of individuals...  Read More >>

The Masters of Medicine Lib/E: Our Greatest Triumphs in the Race to Cure Humanity's Deadliest Diseases

The Masters of Medicine Lib/E: Our Greatest Triumphs...

Author: Andrew Lam ,  Jason Vu
ISBN: 9798212719117
Format: Audio
$65.97

"Human history hinges on the battle to confront our most dangerous enemies--the half-dozen diseases responsible...  Read More >>

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