History of medicine books

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Intellectual Disability: A Conceptual History, 1200–1900

Intellectual Disability: A Conceptual History, 1200–1900...

Author: Patrick McDonagh ,  C. F. Goodey
ISBN: 9781526125316
Format: Hardback
$195.00

This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning...  Read More >>

Revival: Textbook of Psychiatry (1924)

Revival: Textbook of Psychiatry (1924)

Author: Eugen Bleuler ,  A. A. Brill
ISBN: 9781138551473
Format: Hardback
$683.00

This book marked a notable advance in psychiatry in that it emphasizes sharply the contrast between the older descriptive...  Read More >>

Airopaidia: Containing the narrative of a balloon excursion from Chester, the eighth of September, 1785, taken from minutes made during the voyage: hints on the improvement of balloons, to which is subjoined mensuration of heights by the barometer

Airopaidia: Containing the narrative of a balloon excursion...

Author: Thomas Baldwin
ISBN: 9783337394837
Format: Paperback
$85.13

Airopaidia - Containing the narrative of a balloon excursion from Chester, the eighth of September, 1785, taken...  Read More >>

Experiments and Observations Made in Britain,: in Order to Obtain a Rule for Measuring Heights with the Barometer. By Colonel William Roy. F. R. S.

Experiments and Observations Made in Britain,: in Order...

Author: William Roy
ISBN: 9783337382155
Format: Paperback
$60.46

Experiments and Observations Made in Britain, - in Order to Obtain a Rule for Measuring Heights with the Barometer....  Read More >>

Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthy Life: With means of correcting a bad constitution

Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthy...

Author: Luigi Cornaro
ISBN: 9783337411374
Format: Paperback
$54.08

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Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake: The Birth of the Medical Profession

Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake: The Birth of...

Author: T.A. Cavanaugh (Professor, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of San Francisco)
ISBN: 9780190673673
Format: Hardback
$64.95

This book articulates the Hippocratic Oath as establishing the medical profession by a promise to uphold an internal...  Read More >>

The Coronary Heart Disease Pandemic in the Twentieth Century: Emergence and Decline in Advanced Countries

The Coronary Heart Disease Pandemic in the Twentieth...

Author: William G. Rothstein
ISBN: 9781138569508
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book discusses the pandemic of coronary heart disease occurring in North America, western and northern Europe,...  Read More >>

Florence Nightingale, Nursing, and Health Care Today

Florence Nightingale, Nursing, and Health Care Today...

Author: Lynn McDonald
ISBN: 9780826155580
Format: Paperback
$85.99

Provides an analysis of Florence Nightingale's legacy that goes beyond established scholarship to examine her lesser...  Read More >>

The Physicians 1660-2018: Ever Persons Capable and Able

The Physicians 1660-2018: Ever Persons Capable and Able...

Author: Louella Vaughan ,  Richard Thompson
ISBN: 9781408706343
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The seventh book in the 500 Reflections on the RCP series, volume two of two on the history of the Royal College...  Read More >>

Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia: Past, Present, Future

Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia: Past, Present,...

Author: C. F. Goodey (University of Leicester, UK)
ISBN: 9780815355212
Format: Paperback
$112.00

This innovative volume explains how concepts of learning disability, intellectual disability and autism first came...  Read More >>

Rare and Exotic Orchids: Their Nature and Cultural Significance

Rare and Exotic Orchids: Their Nature and Cultural Significance...

Author: Joel L. Schiff
ISBN: 9783319700335
Format: Hardback
$116.41

"Comprising some 28,000 different species, orchids are by far the largest flowering plant family on Earth. Every...  Read More >>

Health Policy and Disease in Colonial and Post-Colonial Hong Kong, 1841-2003

Health Policy and Disease in Colonial and Post-Colonial...

Author: Ka-che Yip (University of Maryland, USA) ,  Yuen Sang Leung
ISBN: 9780815356240
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Besides looking at major outbreaks of diseases and how they were coped with, diseases such as malaria, smallpox,...  Read More >>

Pathology in Practice: Diseases and Dissections in Early Modern Europe

Pathology in Practice: Diseases and Dissections in Early...

Author: Silvia De Renzi (The Open University, UK) ,  Marco Bresadola
ISBN: 9781472463814
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book provides a fresh account of the dissections that took place across early modern Europe on those who had...  Read More >>

A History of Medicine

A History of Medicine

Author: Lois N. Magner ,  Oliver Kim
ISBN: 9781498796224
Format: Paperback
$103.00

Designed for survey courses in the field A History of Medicine presents a wide-ranging overview for those seeking...  Read More >>

Observations on Insanity: With Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection

Observations on Insanity: With Practical Remarks on...

Author: John Haslam
ISBN: 9781983941436
Format: Paperback
$33.00

John Haslam, english apothecary, physician and medical writer (1764-1844). Excerpt from Observations on Insanity:...  Read More >>

A History of Medicine

A History of Medicine

Author: Lois N. Magner ,  Oliver Kim
ISBN: 9781138103825
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Designed for survey courses in the field A History of Medicine presents a wide-ranging overview for those seeking...  Read More >>

Storytelling as Plague Prevention in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: The Decameron Tradition

Storytelling as Plague Prevention in Medieval and Early...

Author: Martin Marafioti
ISBN: 9781409406419
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Through close readings of five Italian collections of novellas written over a 500-year period, Martin Marafioti...  Read More >>

Fame and Fortune: Sir John Hill and London Life in the 1750s

Fame and Fortune: Sir John Hill and London Life in the...

Author: Clare Brant ,  George Rousseau
ISBN: 9781137580535
Format: Hardback
$226.95

This multi-disciplinary essay collection explores the controversial life and achievements of Sir John Hill (1714–1775),...  Read More >>

The Patent Medicines Industry in Georgian England: Constructing the Market by the Potency of Print

The Patent Medicines Industry in Georgian England: Constructing...

Author: Alan Mackintosh
ISBN: 9783319697772
Format: Hardback
$232.85

In this book, the ownership, distribution and sale of patent medicines across Georgian England are explored for...  Read More >>

Medicine, the Penal System and Sexual Crimes in England, 1919-1960s: Diagnosing Deviance

Medicine, the Penal System and Sexual Crimes in England,...

Author: Janet Weston (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK)
ISBN: 9781350021099
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Sexual crime, past and present, is rarely far from the headlines. How these crimes are punished, policed and understood...  Read More >>

Social Justice and Medical Practice: Life History of a Physician of Social Medicine

Social Justice and Medical Practice: Life History of...

Author: Merrill Singer ,  Rebecca Allen
ISBN: 9781629584256
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Prosthesis in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Prosthesis in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Author: Chloe Porter (University of Sussex, UK) ,  Katie L. Walter (Sussex University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138095311
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This collection considers the history of prosthesis and its implications for contemporary critical responses. It...  Read More >>

World Epidemics: A Cultural Chronology of Disease from Prehistory to the Era of Zika, 2d ed.

World Epidemics: A Cultural Chronology of Disease from...

Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
ISBN: 9781476671246
Format: Paperback
$160.60

Revised edition of: World epidemics: a cultural chronology of disease from prehistory to the era of SARS. c2003....  Read More >>

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