History of medicine books

42358 books were found.

The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care

The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland:...

Author: Alice Mauger
ISBN: 9783319652436
Format: Hardback
$51.75

This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century

Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare...

Author: Molly Ladd-Taylor
ISBN: 9781421423722
Format: Hardback
$124.00

Combining innovative political analysis with a compelling social history of those caught up in Minnesota's welfare...  Read More >>

Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance: The Contemporaries and Successors of Jean Fernel (1497-1558)

Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance:...

Author: Linda Deer Richardson ,  Benjamin Goldberg
ISBN: 9783319693347
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This volume deals with philosophically grounded theories of animal generation as found in two different traditions:...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery

The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery

Author: Thomas Schlich
ISBN: 9781349952595
Format: Hardback
$453.95

 Read More >>

Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography

Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography...

Author: Cornelius Borck (University of Lübeck, Germany) ,  Ann Hentschel
ISBN: 9781472469441
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing...  Read More >>

Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy

Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy

Author: Matthew Smith
ISBN: 9780231164856
Format: Paperback
$32.95

Another Person's Poison traces the trajectory of the debate over food allergies and its effect on public-health...  Read More >>

Hortus Kewensis; Or, a Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew; Volume 3

Hortus Kewensis; Or, a Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated...

Author: William Aiton
ISBN: 9781376405446
Format: Paperback
$41.27

 Read More >>

Visualizing Disease: The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations

Visualizing Disease: The Art and History of Pathological...

Author: Domenico Bertoloni Meli
ISBN: 9780226110295
Format: Hardback
$97.95

Visual anatomy books have been a staple of medical practice and study since the mid-sixteenth century. But the visual...  Read More >>

Locating the Medical: Explorations in South Asian History

Locating the Medical: Explorations in South Asian History...

Author: Rohan Deb Roy (Lecturer in South Asian History, University of Reading) ,  Guy N.A. Attewell
ISBN: 9780199480197
Format: Hardback
$85.00

This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia....  Read More >>

Epidemics: The Impact of Germs and Their Power over Humanity

Epidemics: The Impact of Germs and Their Power over...

Author: Joshua S. Loomis
ISBN: 9781440861420
Format: Hardback
$90.00

This book comprehensively reviews the 10 most influential epidemics in history, going beyond morbid accounts of...  Read More >>

Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and its Histories

Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health...

Author: Abigail Woods ,  Michael Bresalier
ISBN: 9783319643366
Format: Hardback
$51.75

In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights...  Read More >>

The Proceedings of the 22nd Annual History of Medicine Days Conference 2013

The Proceedings of the 22nd Annual History of Medicine...

Author: Aleksandra Loewenau ,  William J. Pratt
ISBN: 9781527503946
Format: Hardback
$263.87

The Proceedings of the Calgary History of Medicine Days represent a series of volumes in the history of medicine...  Read More >>

A Family of Doctors

A Family of Doctors

Author: David Hellerstein M D
ISBN: 9781985028029
Format: Paperback
$31.68

In this poignant, deeply moving book, Dr. David Hellerstein traces five generations of American medicine--from the...  Read More >>

Syphilis and Subjectivity: From the Victorians to the Present

Syphilis and Subjectivity: From the Victorians to the...

Author: Kari Nixon ,  Lorenzo Servitje
ISBN: 9783319663661
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book demystifies the cultural work of syphilis from the late nineteenth century to the present. By interrogating...  Read More >>

Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion: Infectious Corpses and Contested Burials

Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion: Infectious Corpses...

Author: Christos Lynteris ,  Nicholas H A Evans
ISBN: 9783319629285
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This edited volume draws historians and anthropologists together to explore the contested worlds of epidemic corpses...  Read More >>

Locating the Medical: Explorations in South Asian History

Locating the Medical: Explorations in South Asian History...

Author: Rohan Deb Roy (Lecturer in South Asian History, University of Reading) ,  Guy N.A. Attewell
ISBN: 9780199486717
Format: Hardback
$80.00

This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia....  Read More >>

Kulturen des Wahnsinns (1870-1930): Raume, Routinen und Strukturen 1870-1930

Kulturen des Wahnsinns (1870-1930): Raume, Routinen...

Author: Judith Hahn ,  Beate Binder
ISBN: 9783205794226
Format: Hardback
$168.96

Die moderne Großstadt macht wahnsinnig. Dieser Befund wurde bereits von den Zeitgenossen um 1900 diskutiert. Dabei...  Read More >>

Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina

Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul...

Author: Chiara Thumiger ,  Peter Singer
ISBN: 9789004362727
Format: Hardback
$496.32

Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina traces the history of conceptions of mental disorder...  Read More >>

Memories: Notebook, 150 lined pages, softcover, 6 x 9

Memories: Notebook, 150 lined pages, softcover, 6 x...

Author: Wild Pages Press
ISBN: 9781985171237
Format: Paperback
$18.45

Stylish Designer Notebook. Interior 150 lined pages. Size 6 x 9 . Glossy softcover. Perfect for everyday use. Perfectly...  Read More >>

Pushing in Silence: Modernizing Puerto Rico and the Medicalization of Childbirth

Pushing in Silence: Modernizing Puerto Rico and the...

Author: Isabel M. Córdova
ISBN: 9781477314128
Format: Paperback
$56.95

This history of evolving birthing practices in Puerto Rico reveals how dramatic transformations in childbirth resulted...  Read More >>

Pushing in Silence: Modernizing Puerto Rico and the Medicalization of Childbirth

Pushing in Silence: Modernizing Puerto Rico and the...

Author: Isabel M. Córdova
ISBN: 9781477313633
Format: Hardback
$170.95

This history of evolving birthing practices in Puerto Rico reveals how dramatic transformations in childbirth resulted...  Read More >>

Jonas Salk: A Life

Jonas Salk: A Life

Author: Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs (Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professor of Medicine (Emerita), Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professor of Medicine (Emerita), Stanford University School of Medicine)
ISBN: 9780190679163
Format: Paperback
$27.95

The first full biography of Jonas Salk offers a complete picture of the enigmatic figure, from his early years working...  Read More >>

Lelamour Herbal (MS Sloane 5, ff. 13r–57r): An Annotated Critical Edition

Lelamour Herbal (MS Sloane 5, ff. 13r–57r): An Annotated...

Author: David Moreno Olalla
ISBN: 9783034331555
Format: Paperback
$269.49

The volume is the first modern edition of the 1373 Middle English herbal by John Lelamour, as contained in London,...  Read More >>

Latest Reading Guide

Aorrng

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List