History of medicine books

43416 books were found.

The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease

The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs...

Author: Meredith Wadman
ISBN: 9780143111313
Format: Paperback
$50.16

"""A real jewel of science history...brims with suspense and now-forgotten catastrophe and intrigue...Wadman’s smooth...  Read More >>

Experimental Inquiries: Containing an Inquiry Into the Properties of the Blood with Remarks on Some of Its Morbid (Classic Reprint)

Experimental Inquiries: Containing an Inquiry Into the...

Author: William Hewson
ISBN: 9781332260331
Format: Paperback
$24.81

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The Dore Lectures on Mental Science: Large Print

The Dore Lectures on Mental Science: Large Print

Author: Thomas Troward
ISBN: 9781724716453
Format: Paperback
$21.09

The Dore Lectures on Mental Science: Large Print By Thomas Troward The more perfect, therefore, the working of the...  Read More >>

The Lives of Justine Johnstone: Follies Star, Research Scientist, Social Activist

The Lives of Justine Johnstone: Follies Star, Research...

Author: Kathleen Vestuto
ISBN: 9781476672762
Format: Paperback
$52.80

As a Ziegfeld Follies girl and film actress, Justine Johnstone (1895-1982) was celebrated as “the most beautiful...  Read More >>

General View of the Agriculture of the County of Clydesdale: With Observations on the Means of Its Improvement (Classic Reprint)

General View of the Agriculture of the County of Clydesdale:...

Author: John Naismith
ISBN: 9781334553943
Format: Paperback
$24.81

Excerpt from General View of the Agriculture of the County of Clydesdale: With Observations on the Means of Its...  Read More >>

The Dore Lectures on Mental Science: Large Print

The Dore Lectures on Mental Science: Large Print

Author: Thomas Troward
ISBN: 9781724536761
Format: Paperback
$21.09

The Dore Lectures on Mental Science: Large Print by Thomas Troward The more perfect, therefore, the working of the...  Read More >>

The Curious Cures Of Old England: Eccentric treatments, outlandish remedies and fearsome surgeries for ailments from the plague to the pox

The Curious Cures Of Old England: Eccentric treatments,...

Author: Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN: 9781472142450
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Another highly entertaining trawl through the byways of English history by the author of The Strange Laws of Old...  Read More >>

Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine: The Telling Touch

Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine: The Telling...

Author: Elisabeth Hsu (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781108468633
Format: Paperback
$95.71

This is a study of the earliest extensive account of Chinese pulse diagnosis, or more accurately, the examination...  Read More >>

American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in...

Author: Victoria Johnson (Hunter College)
ISBN: 9781631494192
Format: Hardback
$49.95

The untold story of Hamilton’s—and Burr’s—physician whose dream to build America’s first botanical garden inspired...  Read More >>

The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul

The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics,...

Author: Eleanor Herman ,  Susie Berneis
ISBN: 9781974922727
Format: Audio
$79.17

Tracing the use of poison as a political tool in the royal courts of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the...  Read More >>

The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul

The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics,...

Author: Eleanor Herman ,  Susie Berneis
ISBN: 9781974922680
Format: Audio
$131.97

Tracing the use of poison as a political tool in the royal courts of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the...  Read More >>

Poison, Medicine, and Disease in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Poison, Medicine, and Disease in Late Medieval and Early...

Author: Frederick W Gibbs
ISBN: 9781472420398
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book presents a uniquely broad and pioneering history of premodern toxicology by exploring how late medieval...  Read More >>

Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Affliction

Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion: An Interdisciplinary Perspective...

Author: Sighard Neckel ,  Anna Katharina Schaffner
ISBN: 9783319850085
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This interdisciplinary book explores both the connections and the tensions between sociological, psychological,...  Read More >>

Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine

Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of...

Author: Meredith Conti
ISBN: 9781138703117
Format: Hardback
$242.00

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Faith, Medical Alchemy and Natural Philosophy: Johann Moriaen, Reformed Intelligencer and the Hartlib Circle

Faith, Medical Alchemy and Natural Philosophy: Johann...

Author: John T. Young
ISBN: 9781138625433
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Published in 1998, this is a fundamental re-assessment of the world-view of the alchemists, natural philosophers...  Read More >>

Asylum on the Hill: History of a Healing Landscape

Asylum on the Hill: History of a Healing Landscape

Author: Katherine Ziff ,  Samuel T. Gladding
ISBN: 9780821423417
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Asylum on the Hill is the story of a great American experiment in psychiatry, a revolution in care for those with...  Read More >>

Modern Snake Oil: Medical Scams and Why We Fall for Them

Modern Snake Oil: Medical Scams and Why We Fall for...

Author: Ann Anderson
ISBN: 9781476668994
Format: Paperback
$79.07

"The modern market for useless health products - snake oil - thrives in a swamp of advertising hype and pseudoscience....  Read More >>

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American...

Author: Deirdre Cooper Owens
ISBN: 9780820354750
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Examines a wide range of scientific literature and less formal communications in which gynaecologists disseminated...  Read More >>

To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down: Tuskegee University’s Advancements in Human Health, 1881–1987

To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down: Tuskegee University’s...

Author: Dana R. Chandler ,  Edith Powell
ISBN: 9780817319892
Format: Hardback
$105.47

An important historical account of Tuskegee University's significant advances in health care, which affected millions...  Read More >>

Medicine From Cave Dwellers to Millennials

Medicine From Cave Dwellers to Millennials

Author: Jonathan L Stolz, MD
ISBN: 9781948046206
Format: Paperback
$29.73

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Religio Medici: The Religion of a Doctor

Religio Medici: The Religion of a Doctor

Author: J W Willis Bund ,  Thomas Browne
ISBN: 9781726203289
Format: Paperback
$23.63

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne. Religio Medici (The Religion of a...  Read More >>

A Visual History of HIV/AIDS: Exploring The Face of AIDS film archive

A Visual History of HIV/AIDS: Exploring The Face of...

Author: Elisabet Björklund (Linnaeus University, Sweden) ,  Mariah Larsson, Ph.D. (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781138503243
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The Face of AIDS film archive at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, consists of more than 700 hours of unedited and...  Read More >>

A History of Palliative Care, 1500-1970: Concepts, Practices, and Ethical challenges

A History of Palliative Care, 1500-1970: Concepts, Practices,...

Author: Michael Stolberg
ISBN: 9783319853406
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book on the history of palliative care, 1500-1970 traces the historical roots of modern palliative care in...  Read More >>

Vaccines: Are they Worth a Shot?

Vaccines: Are they Worth a Shot?

Author: Andrea Grignolio ,  Joan Rundo
ISBN: 9783319681054
Format: Paperback
$64.66

The dangerous decline in vaccinations in many developed countries is at the heart of a lively debate that confirms...  Read More >>

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