History of medicine books

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Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia

Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering...

Author: Luke Manget
ISBN: 9780813183817
Format: Hardback
$73.79

Examines Appalachia’s long relationship with the global trade in medicinal plants.  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World

The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical...

Author: Paul Keyser ,  John Scarborough
ISBN: 9780197611968
Format: Paperback
$113.95

This handbook synthesizes what is known and debated about science in the classical world of ancient Greece and Rome,...  Read More >>

A Short History of Disease: Plagues, Poxes and Civilisations

A Short History of Disease: Plagues, Poxes and Civilisations...

Author: Sean Martin
ISBN: 9780857304155
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A Short History of Disease chronicles the historical and geographical evolution of infectious and non-infectious...  Read More >>

Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892

Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the...

Author: Howard Markel (Director, The University of Michigan)
ISBN: 9781421443669
Format: Paperback
$64.99

At a time of renewed anti-immigrant sentiment and newly emerging infectious diseases, Quarantine! provides a historical...  Read More >>

Guarding the Golden Gate: A History of the U.S. Quarantine Station in San Francisco Bay

Guarding the Golden Gate: A History of the U.S. Quarantine...

Author: J. Gordon Frierson
ISBN: 9781647790462
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Amidst the evolving scientific knowledge of epidemic diseases during the mid-to-late 19th century, Guarding the...  Read More >>

Chinese Medicine and Transnational Transition during the Modern Era: Commodification, Hybridity, and Segregation

Chinese Medicine and Transnational Transition during...

Author: Md. Nazrul Islam
ISBN: 9789811599514
Format: Paperback
$310.47

This volume analyses the transition of Chinese medicine during the modern era, and the development of product and...  Read More >>

Neurocinema—The Sequel: A History of Neurology on Screen

Neurocinema—The Sequel: A History of Neurology on Screen...

Author: Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, MD, PhD, FACP (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA)
ISBN: 9781032220024
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The history of neurology as seen through the lens of the filmmaker is fascinating and extraordinary. Neurocinema,...  Read More >>

Gazette médicale de Lyon

Gazette médicale de Lyon

Author: Societe de Medecine
ISBN: 9782329740089
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Gazette médicale de Lyon Date de l'édition originale: 1860 Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation...  Read More >>

Gazette médicale de Lyon

Gazette médicale de Lyon

Author: Societe de Medecine
ISBN: 9782329740065
Format: Paperback
$63.23

Gazette médicale de Lyon Date de l'édition originale: 1849 Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation...  Read More >>

Gazette médicale de Lyon

Gazette médicale de Lyon

Author: Societe de Medecine
ISBN: 9782329740096
Format: Paperback
$89.63

Gazette médicale de Lyon Date de l'édition originale: 1865 Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation...  Read More >>

The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine: A History

The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine: A History...

Author: Thomas Helling ,  Mack Sanderson
ISBN: 9798200946303
Format: Audio
$84.35

A startling narrative revealing the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions...  Read More >>

The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine: A History

The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine: A History...

Author: Thomas Helling ,  Mack Sanderson
ISBN: 9798200946297
Format: Audio
$110.75

A startling narrative revealing the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions...  Read More >>

Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton...

Author: Kathryn Olivarius
ISBN: 9780674241053
Format: Hardback
$63.95

In antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were...  Read More >>

Health Care Gone Wrong

Health Care Gone Wrong

Author: Philip R Hirsh
ISBN: 9781734913699
Format: Paperback
$43.86

Physician/Writer Philip Hirsh recounts how a proud profession gradually lost out to a profit-driven business model....  Read More >>

Medizin in Wien nach 1945: Strukturen, Aushandlungsprozesse, Reflexionen

Medizin in Wien nach 1945: Strukturen, Aushandlungsprozesse,...

Author: Dr Birgit Nemec ,  Hans-Georg Hofer
ISBN: 9783847113935
Format: Hardback
$271.66

Viennese medicine, marked by heavy burdens from the Nazi era, underwent processes of change in the second half of...  Read More >>

Patient und Arzt: Fritz Hartmann (1920-2007) und seine arztliche Anthropologie

Patient und Arzt: Fritz Hartmann (1920-2007) und seine...

Author: Heiner Raspe
ISBN: 9783412524531
Format: Hardback
$111.24

"Text in German. Along with Rudolf Schoen, Fritz Hartmann is regarded as the spiritual father of the Hannover Medical...  Read More >>

Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism

Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism

Author: Susan Grant
ISBN: 9781501762598
Format: Paperback
$73.79

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Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing

Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical...

Author: Sarah Star
ISBN: 9781487529536
Format: Hardback
$99.99

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Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia

Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early...

Author: Susan H. Brandt
ISBN: 9780812253863
Format: Hardback
$105.47

In her eighteenth-century medical recipe manuscript, the Philadelphia healer Elizabeth Coates Paschall asserted...  Read More >>

Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism

Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism

Author: Susan Grant
ISBN: 9781501763564
Format: Hardback
$343.20

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The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine Lib/E: A History

The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine Lib/E:...

Author: Thomas Helling ,  Mack Sanderson
ISBN: 9798200946280
Format: Audio
$282.48

A startling narrative revealing the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions...  Read More >>

Duel Without End: Mankind's Battle with Microbes

Duel Without End: Mankind's Battle with Microbes

Author: Stig S. Froland
ISBN: 9781789145052
Format: Hardback
$54.99

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Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery

Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History...

Author: Paul Craddock
ISBN: 9781250280329
Format: Hardback
$76.53

Originally published: Great Britain: Fig Tree, 2021.  Read More >>

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