History of medicine books

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A Mother′s Manual for the Women of Ferrara – A Fifteenth–Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics

A Mother′s Manual for the Women of Ferrara – A Fifteenth–Century...

Author: Michele Savonarola ,  Gabriella Zuccolin
ISBN: 9781649590305
Format: Paperback
$145.07

"""English translation of the fifteenth-century obstetrical and pediatric treatise written in the Italian vernacular...  Read More >>

The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley

The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley

Author: R Alton Lee
ISBN: 9780813195391
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Tells the story of a controversial charlatan who transformed 20th century medicine, American politics, and radio...  Read More >>

2023 Pocket Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking

2023 Pocket Guide to Physical Examination and History...

Author: Givon Makuq
ISBN: 9798846642690
Format: Paperback
$63.96

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Nursing Shifts in Sichuan: Canadian Missions and Wartime China, 1937–1951

Nursing Shifts in Sichuan: Canadian Missions and Wartime...

Author: Sonya Grypma
ISBN: 9780774865722
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Nursing Shifts in Sichuan is a testament to the resilience of educated women, exploring modern nursing as one of...  Read More >>

From Spectacle-Making Trade to Scholarly Profession: A History of Optometry in the United States

From Spectacle-Making Trade to Scholarly Profession:...

Author: David A Goss
ISBN: 9781945398063
Format: Paperback
$41.37

From Spectacle-Making Trade to Scholarly Profession takes a look at the long span of optometry history, with a primary...  Read More >>

Evidence in Action between Science and Society: Constructing, Validating, and Contesting Knowledge

Evidence in Action between Science and Society: Constructing,...

Author: Sarah Ehlers (Deutsches Museum, Germany) ,  Stefan Esselborn (Technische Universität München, Germany)
ISBN: 9781032037059
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume is an interdisciplinary attempt to insert a broader, historically informed perspective into current...  Read More >>

Making Medicine: Surprising Stories from the History of Drug Discovery

Making Medicine: Surprising Stories from the History...

Author: Keith Veronese
ISBN: 9781633887534
Format: Hardback
$54.99

In Making Medicine: Surprising Stories from the History of Drug Discovery, author Keith Veronese examines eighteen...  Read More >>

Victorian Material Culture

Victorian Material Culture

Author: Boris Jardine ,  Josh Nall
ISBN: 9781138225282
Format: Hardback
$242.00

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Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don’t Exist)

Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People...

Author: Sarah Chaney
ISBN: 9781788162456
Format: Hardback
$36.99

A deep dive into the strange science of the 'Normal', and the origins of an anxiety-ridden modern obsession.  Read More >>

Disability and the Victorians: Attitudes, Interventions, Legacies

Disability and the Victorians: Attitudes, Interventions,...

Author: Iain Hutchison ,  Martin Atherton
ISBN: 9781526163929
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates...  Read More >>

Hippocrates, Volume I: Ancient Medicine. Airs, Waters, Places. Epidemics 1 and 3. The Oath. Precepts. Nutriment

Hippocrates, Volume I: Ancient Medicine. Airs, Waters,...

Author: Hippocrates ,  Paul Potter
ISBN: 9780674997479
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Volume I of the Loeb Hippocrates presents an exemplary selection of works by or attributed to the “Father of Medicine”...  Read More >>

Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far

Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far

Author: Paul A Offit
ISBN: 9780062947505
Format: Paperback
$50.13

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A Global History of Ginseng: Imperialism, Modernity and Orientalism

A Global History of Ginseng: Imperialism, Modernity...

Author: Heasim Sul (Yonsei University, South Korea)
ISBN: 9781032261423
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Sul’s history of the international ginseng trade reveals the cultural aspects of international capitalism and the...  Read More >>

Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World

Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in...

Author: Elinor Cleghorn
ISBN: 9781474616874
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A groundbreaking new story of women's journey through medicine, exposing the historic origins of the gender pain...  Read More >>

Ketogenic Diet and Metabolic Therapies: Expanded Roles in Health and Disease

Ketogenic Diet and Metabolic Therapies: Expanded Roles...

Author: Susan A. Masino (, Trinity College)
ISBN: 9780197501207
Format: Paperback
$209.00

Ketogenic therapies have treated epilepsy for 100 years. Now, broader clinical applications of metabolic therapies...  Read More >>

How the Black Death Gave Us the NHS

How the Black Death Gave Us the NHS

Author: Jamie Breitnauer
ISBN: 9781399001748
Format: Hardback
$59.99

A comprehensive look at how social policy has developed in the area of healthcare.  Read More >>

Treasure Your Exceptions: The Science and Life of William Bateson

Treasure Your Exceptions: The Science and Life of William...

Author: Alan G. Cock ,  Donald R. Forsdyke
ISBN: 9783030920982
Format: Hardback
$517.47

"This biography provides an understanding of William Bateson as well as a reconciliation of diverging views (e.g....  Read More >>

Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body

Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work,...

Author: Steffan Blayney
ISBN: 9781625346490
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Under this new ‘science of work’ that emerged in Britain between 1870 and 1939 fatigue was seen as the ultimate...  Read More >>

'I Follow Aristotle': How William Harvey Discovered the Circulation of the Blood

'I Follow Aristotle': How William Harvey Discovered...

Author: Andrew Cunningham
ISBN: 9781032162232
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body

Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work,...

Author: Steffan Blayney
ISBN: 9781625346506
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Under this new ‘science of work’ that emerged in Britain between 1870 and 1939 fatigue was seen as the ultimate...  Read More >>

Abortion Care as Moral Work: Ethical Considerations of Maternal and Fetal Bodies

Abortion Care as Moral Work: Ethical Considerations...

Author: Johanna Schoen ,  Curtis Boyd
ISBN: 9780813597263
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Brings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counsellors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists,...  Read More >>

Abortion Care as Moral Work: Ethical Considerations of Maternal and Fetal Bodies

Abortion Care as Moral Work: Ethical Considerations...

Author: Johanna Schoen ,  Curtis Boyd
ISBN: 9780813597270
Format: Hardback
$166.19

Brings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counsellors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists,...  Read More >>

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