History of medicine books

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The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution

The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in...

Author: Andrew M Wehrman ,  Timothy Andr�s Pabon
ISBN: 9798212394970
Format: Audio
$65.97

The Revolutionary War broke out during a smallpox epidemic, and in response, General George Washington ordered the...  Read More >>

The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution

The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in...

Author: Andrew M Wehrman ,  Timothy Andr�s Pabon
ISBN: 9798212394987
Format: Audio
$65.97

The Revolutionary War broke out during a smallpox epidemic, and in response, General George Washington ordered the...  Read More >>

Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities

Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in the Health...

Author: Rishi Goyal ,  Arden Hegele
ISBN: 9781350248618
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Charting shared advances across the emerging fields of medical humanities and health humanities, this book engages...  Read More >>

Dyslexia: A History

Dyslexia: A History

Author: Philip Kirby ,  Margaret J. Snowling
ISBN: 9780228014362
Format: Paperback
$80.21

This first comprehensive history of dyslexia charts a journey that begins with Victorian medicine and continues...  Read More >>

Mechanism, Life and Mind in Modern Natural Philosophy

Mechanism, Life and Mind in Modern Natural Philosophy...

Author: Charles T. Wolfe ,  Paolo Pecere
ISBN: 9783031070358
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This volume emphasizes the diversity and fruitfulness of early modern mechanism as a program, as a concept, as a...  Read More >>

Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR

Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR

Author: Tricia Starks
ISBN: 9781501765483
Format: Hardback
$126.59

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Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan

Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan...

Author: H. Yumi Kim (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, The Johns Hopkins University)
ISBN: 9780197507353
Format: Hardback
$103.95

To fend off American and European imperialism in the nineteenth century, Japan strove to strengthen itself by drawing...  Read More >>

Renaissance Surgeons: Learning and Expertise in the Age of Print

Renaissance Surgeons: Learning and Expertise in the...

Author: Kristy Wilson Bowers
ISBN: 9781032270418
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book examines the lives, careers and publications of a group of Spanish Renaissance surgeons as exemplars of...  Read More >>

Renaissance Surgeons: Learning and Expertise in the Age of Print

Renaissance Surgeons: Learning and Expertise in the...

Author: Kristy Wilson Bowers
ISBN: 9781032270401
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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The Contagion of Liberty Lib/E: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution

The Contagion of Liberty Lib/E: The Politics of Smallpox...

Author: Andrew M Wehrman ,  Timothy Andrés Pabon
ISBN: 9798212394963
Format: Audio
$65.97

The Revolutionary War broke out during a smallpox epidemic, and in response, General George Washington ordered the...  Read More >>

Healing a Divided Nation: How the American Civil War Revolutionized Western Medicine

Healing a Divided Nation: How the American Civil War...

Author: Carole Adrienne
ISBN: 9781639361854
Format: Hardback
$76.43

"""An exceptional look at the growth of health care spurred by the Civil War?""—David J Kent, award-winning scientist...  Read More >>

Making Sense of Medicine: Material Culture and the Reproduction of Medical Knowledge

Making Sense of Medicine: Material Culture and the Reproduction...

Author: John Nott ,  Anna Harris
ISBN: 9781789385779
Format: Paperback
$90.95

Leading historians, anthropologists, educators and designers explore the role of materiality in medical education....  Read More >>

The Queen of Sheba's Gift: A History of the True Balsam of Matarea

The Queen of Sheba's Gift: A History of the True Balsam...

Author: Marcus Milwright
ISBN: 9781399508872
Format: Paperback
$67.25

The balsam of Matarea was a famous panacea among physicians in the Middle East and Europe during the antique and...  Read More >>

Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History

Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History

Author: Jaipreet Virdi
ISBN: 9780226824062
Format: Paperback
$31.95

Weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society’s—and her own—perception...  Read More >>

Surgery in London and the Royal College of Surgeons of England: Opportunities and Pitfalls

Surgery in London and the Royal College of Surgeons...

Author: John Bolwell
ISBN: 9781803811581
Format: Paperback
$23.26

A concise account of the evolution of surgical training and practice in London along a timeline of 700 years, emphasising...  Read More >>

Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917–1960

Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions...

Author: Yi-Tang Lin (Université de Genève)
ISBN: 9781108845922
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Yi-Tang Lin presents the historical process by which statistics became the language of global health. Using the...  Read More >>

The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812

The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812

Author: James Blake Bailey
ISBN: 9798986476001
Format: Paperback
$33.61

"As The Butte Daily Post said in 1897, this book is a ""gruesome publication."" The Diary covers a thriving vocation...  Read More >>

Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. CX. March, 1916. No. 3

Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. CX....

Author: Charles S Briggs ,  W T Briggs
ISBN: 9789356706866
Format: Paperback
$28.70

Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. CX. March, 1916. No. 3, has been considered an important book throughout...  Read More >>

Combat Stress in Pre-modern Europe

Combat Stress in Pre-modern Europe

Author: Owen Rees ,  Kathryn Hurlock
ISBN: 9783031099465
Format: Hardback
$310.47

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A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness

A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern...

Author: Marina Mogilner
ISBN: 9780674270725
Format: Hardback
$86.95

Amid the nationalization of Russian imperial politics, Jews developed a powerful version of race science and biopolitics...  Read More >>

Psychiatry and the Human Condition: A Scientific Biography of Silvano Arieti (1914–1981)

Psychiatry and the Human Condition: A Scientific Biography...

Author: Roberta Passione
ISBN: 9783031093036
Format: Hardback
$168.16

In 1975, the second edition of his book, Interpretation of Schizophrenia, received the National Book Award in Science.The...  Read More >>

Intoxicating Manchuria: Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China's Northeast

Intoxicating Manchuria: Alcohol, Opium, and Culture...

Author: Norman Smith ,  Kirill Batygin
ISBN: 9798887190594
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Examines how alcohol, opium, and addiction were portrayed in the culture of China’s Northeast during the first half...  Read More >>

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