History of medicine books

43385 books were found.

Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine

Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman...

Author: Megan Nutzman
ISBN: 9781399502733
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Studies the people, places and objects credited with ritual cures and the elite rhetoric critical of these cures...  Read More >>

New Evidence for the Dating and Impact of the Black Death in Asia

New Evidence for the Dating and Impact of the Black...

Author: Robert Hymes (Horace Walpole Carpentier Professor of Oriental Studies (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Columbia University) ,  Monica H. Green
ISBN: 9781802701012
Format: Hardback
$204.41

Evidence that the Second Plague Pandemic was already ravaging China by the early thirteenth century—over a century...  Read More >>

The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780-1860

The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean...

Author: Alex Chase-Levenson (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781108707282
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Alex Chase-Levenson examines British engagement with the Mediterranean quarantine system from 1780 to 1860, demonstrating...  Read More >>

A Singular Remedy: Cinchona Across the Atlantic World, 1751–1820

A Singular Remedy: Cinchona Across the Atlantic World,...

Author: Stefanie Gänger (Universität Heidelberg)
ISBN: 9781108816335
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Stefanie Gänger explores how medical knowledge was shared across diverse societies tied to the Atlantic World between...  Read More >>

The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam

The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and...

Author: Laurence Monnais
ISBN: 9781108466530
Format: Paperback
$64.66

In this examination of the early globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, Laurence Monnais argues that colonialism...  Read More >>

The Jigsaw Murders: The True Story of the Ruxton Killings and the Birth of Modern Forensics

The Jigsaw Murders: The True Story of the Ruxton Killings...

Author: Jeremy Craddock
ISBN: 9781803990347
Format: Paperback
$37.99

Written with the verve and suspense of a crime thriller, this is the first book to examine the infamous 'Jigsaw...  Read More >>

Cancer Data For Good: A History of the Victorian Cancer Registry

Cancer Data For Good: A History of the Victorian Cancer...

Author: Thomas Kehoe
ISBN: 9789811949869
Format: Hardback
$103.47

This book examines the history of the Victorian Cancer Registry (VCR) in Australia from its establishment in the...  Read More >>

Bodies of Work: The First World War and the Transnational Making of Rehabilitation

Bodies of Work: The First World War and the Transnational...

Author: Julie M. Powell (University College Dublin)
ISBN: 9781009230285
Format: Hardback
$194.06

An examination of the transnational development of large-scale national systems, international organizations, technologies,...  Read More >>

Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire, 1780–1970

Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire,...

Author: Stuart Anderson
ISBN: 9783030789824
Format: Paperback
$284.60

Offering a valuable resource for medical and other historians, this book explores the processes by which pharmacy...  Read More >>

Alcohol, Psychiatry and Society: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives, c. 1700–1990s

Alcohol, Psychiatry and Society: Comparative and Transnational...

Author: Waltraud Ernst ,  Thomas Müller
ISBN: 9781526159403
Format: Hardback
$195.00

The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and impacts public...  Read More >>

Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany

Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France,...

Author: Jerry Palmer
ISBN: 9783030828776
Format: Paperback
$284.60

Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany examines an understudied corpus of memoirs in English,...  Read More >>

The Heart in Antiquity: A Journey Through Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, Pre-Hispanic America, and Greece

The Heart in Antiquity: A Journey Through Egypt, Mesopotamia,...

Author: Fabio Zampieri ,  Sabino Illiceto
ISBN: 9788891327826
Format: Hardback
$638.88

"This book represents the first systematic investigation on ancient cardiology, which includes the first civilizations...  Read More >>

History of Medical Miracles and the Lives Behind Them

History of Medical Miracles and the Lives Behind Them...

Author: Harry L Munsinger J D, PH D
ISBN: 9781665731393
Format: Paperback
$52.77

The History of Medical Miracles and The Lives Behind Them uses biographies of physicians and scientists to explain...  Read More >>

Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793–1912

Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793–1912

Author: Michael Brown (Lancaster University)
ISBN: 9781108834841
Format: Hardback
$194.06

In this innovative, engaging, and archivally rich history, Michael Brown explores the relationship between emotions...  Read More >>

Descartes in the Classroom: Teaching Cartesian Philosophy in the Early Modern Age

Descartes in the Classroom: Teaching Cartesian Philosophy...

Author: Davide Cellamare ,  Mattia Mantovani
ISBN: 9789004523265
Format: Hardback
$522.72

The volume offers the first large-scale study of the teaching of Descartes’s philosophy in the early modern age,...  Read More >>

Introduction à l'étude de la médecine expérimentale

Introduction à l'étude de la médecine expérimentale...

Author: Claude Bernard
ISBN: 9782382742648
Format: Paperback
$102.96

Introduction a l'etude de la medecine experimentale de Claude Bernard. Medecin et physiologiste francais (1813-1878)....  Read More >>

Stethoscope: The Making of a Medical Icon

Stethoscope: The Making of a Medical Icon

Author: Anna Harris ,  Tom Rice
ISBN: 9781789146332
Format: Hardback
$44.99

Explores the past, present and future of an instrument that is, quite literally, close to our hearts.  Read More >>

Dyslexia: A History

Dyslexia: A History

Author: Philip Kirby ,  Margaret J. Snowling
ISBN: 9780228014355
Format: Hardback
$343.20

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

The Cry in the Night: Dramas From the Life of a Doctor

The Cry in the Night: Dramas From the Life of a Doctor...

Author: Charles S Norburn ,  Lillian N Alexander
ISBN: 9798218052577
Format: Paperback
$36.20

Dr. Charles S. Norburn (1890-1990) writes of his life in the 19th century: his medical studies; the Navy in WWI;...  Read More >>

Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820: Sociocultural Contexts of Production and Use

Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820: Sociocultural...

Author: Irma Taavitsainen (University of Helsinki) ,  Turo Hiltunen (University of Helsinki)
ISBN: 9781009100090
Format: Hardback
$219.94

With contributions from a global team of scholars, this fascinating book engages with numerous disciplinary perspectives...  Read More >>

Dr. Brown: The American Medical Problem

Dr. Brown: The American Medical Problem

Author: Herbert Doyle Smith
ISBN: 9781956741872
Format: Paperback
$15.81

This book looks at the American health system. That look finds that there are many problems that need thoughtful...  Read More >>

The Base Hospital: An Account of the 5th Northern General Hospital R.A.M.C.(T) and its satellites during the Great War

The Base Hospital: An Account of the 5th Northern General...

Author: Robin P Jenkins
ISBN: 9781739581534
Format: Paperback
$79.17

This is the history of the 5th Northern General Hospital and its satellites during the Great War. Mobilised in 1914,...  Read More >>

Syphilis: A Short Biography

Syphilis: A Short Biography

Author: Andrew P. Zbar
ISBN: 9783031089671
Format: Hardback
$116.41

I have tried to put the organism as the principal protagonist of the story, firmly in an historical focus which...  Read More >>

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