History of medicine books

43416 books were found.

Uncertainty, Anxiety, Frugality: Dealing With Leprosy In The Dutch East Indies, 1816–1942

Uncertainty, Anxiety, Frugality: Dealing With Leprosy...

Author: Leo van Bergen
ISBN: 9789814722834
Format: Paperback
$80.08

The story of leprosy in the Dutch East Indies from the beginning of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th...  Read More >>

The Cherokee Physician: Or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor

The Cherokee Physician: Or Indian Guide to Health, as...

Author: Richard Foreman ,  Jas W. Mahoney
ISBN: 9781469641720
Format: Paperback
$92.40

The extended title of The Cherokee Physician serves as an apt summary of its contents. The book was the result of...  Read More >>

Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain: Beyond the Spectre of the Drunkard

Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain: Beyond...

Author: Thora Hands
ISBN: 9783319929637
Format: Hardback
$51.75

This open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and the wartime regulations...  Read More >>

The Enlightenment of Thomas Beddoes: Science, medicine, and reform

The Enlightenment of Thomas Beddoes: Science, medicine,...

Author: Trevor Levere (University of Toronto, Canada) ,  Larry Stewart (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138329980
Format: Paperback
$101.00

As the authors of this book note, Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) lived in ‘decidedly interesting times’ in which established...  Read More >>

Child Insanity in England, 1845-1907

Child Insanity in England, 1845-1907

Author: Steven Taylor
ISBN: 9781349956067
Format: Paperback
$56.95

This book explores the treatment, administration, and experience of children and young people certified as insane...  Read More >>

Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After

Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After...

Author: Peter Leese ,  Jason Crouthamel
ISBN: 9783319815213
Format: Paperback
$181.10

This collection investigates the social and cultural history of trauma to offer a comparative analysis of its individual,...  Read More >>

Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the First World War

Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the First World...

Author: Jason Crouthamel ,  Peter Leese
ISBN: 9783319815237
Format: Paperback
$181.10

To uncover the varied forms of trauma ignored by medical and political authorities, this volume draws on diverse...  Read More >>

Louis Harold Gray: A Founding Father of Radiobiology

Louis Harold Gray: A Founding Father of Radiobiology...

Author: Sinclair Wynchank
ISBN: 9783319828121
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book is a scientific biography of Louis Harold (“Hal”) Gray, FRS (1905–65), a pioneer in radiobiology – a little...  Read More >>

Cicely Saunders: A Life and Legacy

Cicely Saunders: A Life and Legacy

Author: David Clark (Professor and Wellcome Trust Investigator, Professor and Wellcome Trust Investigator, University of Glasgow, Dumfries Campus, School of Interdisciplinary Studies)
ISBN: 9780190637934
Format: Hardback
$116.95

Born at the end of World War One into a prosperous London family, Cicely Saunders struggled at school before gaining...  Read More >>

Women as Army Surgeons: Being the History of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux and Endell Street; September 1914-October 1919 (Classic Reprint)

Women as Army Surgeons: Being the History of the Women's...

Author: Flora Murray
ISBN: 9780265573860
Format: Hardback
$79.70

Excerpt from Women as Army Surgeons: Being the History of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux and Endell...  Read More >>

Belonging, Therapeutic Landscapes, and Networks: Implications for Mental Health Practice

Belonging, Therapeutic Landscapes, and Networks: Implications...

Author: Ezra Griffith
ISBN: 9781138636453
Format: Paperback
$60.99

In Belonging, Therapeutic Landscapes, and Networks, Dr. Griffith examines factors that influence the intersection...  Read More >>

Archival Afterlives: Life, Death, and Knowledge-Making in Early Modern British Scientific and Medical Archives

Archival Afterlives: Life, Death, and Knowledge-Making...

Author: Vera Keller ,  Anna Marie Roos
ISBN: 9789004324299
Format: Hardback
$403.92

A collection of essays by an international team of scholars, Archival Afterlives explores the posthumous fortunes...  Read More >>

Machiavelli on Freedom and Civil Conflict   : An Historical and Medical Approach to Political Thinking

Machiavelli on Freedom and Civil Conflict   : An Historical...

Author: Marie Gaille
ISBN: 9789004323230
Format: Hardback
$554.40

In Machiavelli on Freedom and Civil Conflict, Marie Gaille discusses Machiavelli’s conception of civil conflict,...  Read More >>

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

Author: Sam Kean
ISBN: 9789862356906
Format: Paperback
$139.39

Traditional Chinese edition of The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed...  Read More >>

The Great Mortality Lib/E: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

The Great Mortality Lib/E: An Intimate History of the...

Author: John Kelly ,  Matthew Lloyd Davies
ISBN: 9781665227605
Format: Audio
$190.05

La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable...  Read More >>

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black...

Author: John Kelly ,  Matthew Lloyd Davies
ISBN: 9781665227629
Format: Audio
$110.85

La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable...  Read More >>

Finding Einstein's Brain

Finding Einstein's Brain

Author: Frederick E. Lepore
ISBN: 9780813580395
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Albert Einstein remains the quintessential icon of modern genius. Following his death in 1955, Einstein's brain...  Read More >>

The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War

The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness,...

Author: Stefanos Geroulanos ,  Todd Meyers
ISBN: 9780226556451
Format: Hardback
$187.95

A history of the development of the concept of the human body as an integrated whole susceptible to damage but also...  Read More >>

An Intellectual History of Blindness: The Enlightenment to the Present

An Intellectual History of Blindness: The Enlightenment...

Author: Frank Wyman (Drew University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415896207
Format: Hardback
$221.00

This volume studies two related problematics. First, Enlightenment ideas about human difference in general and blindness...  Read More >>

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