History of medicine books

In Quest of Justice provides the first full account of the establishment and workings of a new kind of state in...  Read More >>

Tracing the transmission of the caterpillar fungus from China to France, Britain, Russia and Japan, the book investigates...  Read More >>

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This is a well-researched and well-written book examining the diagnosis and treatment of King George III's 'insanity'....  Read More >>

Life in a grand military hospital.  Read More >>

Life in a great military hospital.  Read More >>

This book assembles essays by thinkers who were at the center of the German post World War II development of ethical...  Read More >>

The Right to Pain Relief and Other Deep Roots of the Opioid Epidemic offers a new lens through which to view the...  Read More >>

The Right to Pain Relief and Other Deep Roots of the Opioid Epidemic offers a new lens through which to view the...  Read More >>

This is a definitive and scholarly history of epilepsy in its modern era, between 1860 and 2020. It covers not only...  Read More >>

"In a riveting portrait of the world's largest HIV/AIDS medical-care provider, award-winning journalist Patrick...  Read More >>

"In a riveting portrait of the world's largest HIV/AIDS medical-care provider, award-winning journalist Patrick...  Read More >>

"In a riveting portrait of the world's largest HIV/AIDS medical-care provider, award-winning journalist Patrick...  Read More >>

A synoptic edition of the English version of John Arderon’s De judiciis urinarum containing the commentary on Giles...  Read More >>

During a time when some of the loudest voices in the United States are those clamoring against efforts to vaccinate,...  Read More >>

Written for both historians and general readers, this book stands as a dramatic, character-driven account of physicians’...  Read More >>

In 2010, a pit containing human skeletal elements was discovered at the site of the former Army hospital in San...  Read More >>

Transforming Dentistry traces the rise and near demise of the dentistry program at Western University.  Read More >>

The Right to Pain Relief and Other Deep Roots of the Opioid Epidemic offers a new lens through which to view the...  Read More >>

""The author argues that postwar clinical professionals resisted adopting more positive, accepting, and sociopolitical...  Read More >>

This book explores the relationship between socialist psychiatry and political ideology during the Cold War, tracing...  Read More >>

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"Long before the arrival of the twenty-four-hour pharmacy, folk healers took care of aches, pains, and sniffles...  Read More >>

Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself. Habit Forming traces the history...  Read More >>

Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself. Habit Forming traces the history...  Read More >>