History of medicine books

42358 books were found.

Normality: A Critical Genealogy

Normality: A Critical Genealogy

Author: Peter Cryle ,  Elizabeth Stephens
ISBN: 9780226484051
Format: Paperback
$62.95

The concept of normal is so familiar that it can be hard to imagine contemporary life without it. Yet the term entered everyday...  Read More >>

Lady Lushes: Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern America

Lady Lushes: Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern...

Author: Michelle L. McClellan
ISBN: 9780813576978
Format: Paperback
$108.11

Medical historian Michelle L. McClellan traces the story of the female alcoholic from the late-nineteenth through...  Read More >>

Lady Lushes: Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern America

Lady Lushes: Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern...

Author: Michelle L. McClellan
ISBN: 9780813576985
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Medical historian Michelle L. McClellan traces the story of the female alcoholic from the late-nineteenth through...  Read More >>

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American...

Author: Deirdre Cooper Owens
ISBN: 9780820351353
Format: Hardback
$134.51

Examines a wide range of scientific literature and less formal communications in which gynaecologists disseminated...  Read More >>

A Lecture, on the Situation of the Large Blood-Vessels of the Extremities: And the methods of making effectual pressure on the arteries, in cases of dangerous effusions of blood from wounds

A Lecture, on the Situation of the Large Blood-Vessels...

Author: William Blizard
ISBN: 9783337393250
Format: Paperback
$42.69

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An Account of a Method of Preserving Water,: at sea, from putrefaction, and of restoring to the water its original pleasantness and purity, by a cheap and easy process: to which is added a mode of impregnating water, in large quantities

An Account of a Method of Preserving Water,: at sea,...

Author: Thomas Henry
ISBN: 9783337393267
Format: Paperback
$38.55

An Account of a Method of Preserving Water, - at sea, from putrefaction, and of restoring to the water its original...  Read More >>

Bettine Von Arnim Und Die Gesundheit: Medizin, Krankheit Und Familie Im 19. Jahrhundert

Bettine Von Arnim Und Die Gesundheit: Medizin, Krankheit...

Author: Martin Dinges
ISBN: 9783515119450
Format: Hardback
$139.92

"Was lernten eine Burgerstochter oder ein junger Adeliger um 1800 uber Korper, Gesundheit und Krankheit? Welche...  Read More >>

An Essay on the Medicinal Properties of Factitious Airs: With an appendix, on the nature of blood

An Essay on the Medicinal Properties of Factitious Airs:...

Author: Tiberius Cavallo
ISBN: 9783337393144
Format: Paperback
$67.02

An Essay on the Medicinal Properties of Factitious Airs - With an appendix, on the nature of blood is an unchanged,...  Read More >>

Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices

Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors,...

Author: Jennifer Wallis
ISBN: 9783319567136
Format: Hardback
$51.75

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores how the body was investigated in the late...  Read More >>

A History of Health & Fitness: Implications for Policy Today

A History of Health & Fitness: Implications for Policy...

Author: Roy J. Shephard
ISBN: 9783319650968
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book provides a unique and succinct account of the history of health and fitness, responding to the growing...  Read More >>

Disability and Art History

Disability and Art History

Author: Ann Millett-Gallant (University of North Carolina, USA) ,  Elizabeth Howie (Coastal Carolina University, USA)
ISBN: 9780815392132
Format: Paperback
$103.00

This is the first book of its kind to feature interdisciplinary art history and disability studies scholarship....  Read More >>

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

Author: Richard Mckay
ISBN: 9780226063959
Format: Paperback
$62.95

Now an award-winning documentary feature film The search for a “patient zero”—popularly understood to be the first...  Read More >>

Christiaan Barnard: The Surgeon Who Dared

Christiaan Barnard: The Surgeon Who Dared

Author: David Cooper
ISBN: 9781781556399
Format: Hardback
$66.99

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American Plagues: Lessons from Our Battles with Disease

American Plagues: Lessons from Our Battles with Disease...

Author: Stephen H. Gehlbach
ISBN: 9780810894969
Format: Paperback
$77.99

American Plagues relates stories of epidemics of our past—smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, polio—offering lessons...  Read More >>

Guerison, Religion Et Raison: de la Medecine Hippocratique Aux Neurosciences: Actes de Colloque

Guerison, Religion Et Raison: de la Medecine Hippocratique...

Author: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9782701805221
Format: Paperback
$245.52

Based on a conference held at the Maison de la recherche de Paris-Sorbonne, September 24-25, 2012.  Read More >>

Le Texte Medical Du Papyrus Ebers: Hieroglyphic Transcription, Transliteration, Translation, Glossary and Index

Le Texte Medical Du Papyrus Ebers: Hieroglyphic Transcription,...

Author: Bernard Lalanne ,  Gerard Metra
ISBN: 9782874570926
Format: Paperback
$163.68

A unique publication for those interested in hieroglyphs, Hieratic script and Egyptian grammar, through the Ebers...  Read More >>

Strangling Angel: Diphtheria and Childhood Immunization in Ireland

Strangling Angel: Diphtheria and Childhood Immunization...

Author: Michael Dwyer (School of History, University College, Cork (Ireland))
ISBN: 9781786940469
Format: Hardback
$194.06

The first comprehensive history of the anti-diphtheria campaign and the factors which facilitated or hindered the...  Read More >>

New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies

New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies

Author: Stephanie M. Hilger
ISBN: 9781137519870
Format: Hardback
$219.00

This book is situated in the field of medical humanities, and the articles continue the dialogue between the disciplines...  Read More >>

On the Other Hand: Left Hand, Right Brain, Mental Disorder, and History

On the Other Hand: Left Hand, Right Brain, Mental Disorder,...

Author: Howard I. Kushner
ISBN: 9781421423333
Format: Hardback
$62.99

Written in a lively style that mixes personal biography with scholarly research, On the Other Hand tells a comprehensive...  Read More >>

The Lomidine Files: The Untold Story of a Medical Disaster in Colonial Africa

The Lomidine Files: The Untold Story of a Medical Disaster...

Author: Guillaume Lachenal (Associate Professor at Université Paris Diderot) ,  Noémi Tousignant
ISBN: 9781421423234
Format: Hardback
$80.99

Ultimately, it illuminates public health not only as a showcase of colonial humanism and a tool of control, but...  Read More >>

Experimental Inquiries

Experimental Inquiries

Author: William Hewson
ISBN: 9783337393151
Format: Paperback
$61.84

Experimental Inquiries -: part the first: containing an inquiry into the properties of the blood: with remarks on...  Read More >>

The Nervous Stage: Nineteenth-century Neuroscience and the Birth of Modern Theatre

The Nervous Stage: Nineteenth-century Neuroscience and...

Author: Matthew Wilson Smith (Associate Professor of German and Theater & Performance Studies, Associate Professor of German and Theater & Performance Studies, Stanford University)
ISBN: 9780190644086
Format: Hardback
$85.95

The Nervous Stage examines the relations between theatrical practices and the scientific study of the nervous system....  Read More >>

Synopsis Medicin: A Compendium of Galenical and Chymical Physick, Showing the Art of Healing According to the Precepts of Galen & Paracelsus

Synopsis Medicin: A Compendium of Galenical and Chymical...

Author: Zerobabel Endecott ,  George Francis Dow
ISBN: 9781981714278
Format: Paperback
$15.81

Zerobabel Endecott, the author or compiler of the following collection of medical recipes, was the son of Governor...  Read More >>

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