History of medicine books

Explores how the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths reduced the maternal mortality rate and improved safety...  Read More >>

Drawing on archives of the US Sanitary Commission, the recollections of Civil War soldiers and medical workers,...  Read More >>

A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history,...  Read More >>

Synthesizing historical and contemporary scholarship, Horwitz examines controversies over the definitions and diagnoses...  Read More >>

Pendant 400 ans, de Vasco, de Gama � la fin du 19�me si�cle, le scorbut (carence en vitamine C)aura �t� le grand...  Read More >>

Drawing on archives of the US Sanitary Commission, the recollections of Civil War soldiers and medical workers,...  Read More >>

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

But the potential power of nursing to create a healthier, more just world endures.The story of nursing is complicated....  Read More >>

But the potential power of nursing to create a healthier, more just world endures.The story of nursing is complicated....  Read More >>

Thoroughly updated, this new edition examines fads and fallacies in psychiatry, both past and present, in relation...  Read More >>

'Farber [is] a lucid and courageous witness to the power-play behind the first ""scamdemic,"" . . . [Her] work is...  Read More >>

Written in a lively and compelling style, this book explains the hidden relationship between Judaism and the world...  Read More >>

Stalking the Great Killer is the story of Arkansas's struggle to control tuberculosis, and how the state became...  Read More >>

This book sheds new light on the history of exercise physiology and how it essentially grew, thanks to the work...  Read More >>

This book examines the life and works of Santorio Santori and his impact on the history of medicine and natural...  Read More >>

Raimund Pousset gives in this essential a concise account of senicide, the modern form of cultural killing of the...  Read More >>

"Um 1900 setzten Arzte und Laien zunehmend elektrisch betriebene Heilapparate zur Behandlung einer Vielzahl verschiedener...  Read More >>

Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with nurses and governmental representatives, this book explores...  Read More >>

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Étude sur les maladies éteintes et les maladies nouvelles; pour servir à l'histoire des évolutions séculaires de...  Read More >>

Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture analyses the cultural and literary...  Read More >>

Presents an annotated transcript of the first lecture describing the development of IVF, leading to Louise Brown's...  Read More >>

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In fact, even though Galenism was gradually dismissed as a system, several of his ideas spread through the modern...  Read More >>