History of medicine books

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Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life

Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life

Author: Haider Warraich
ISBN: 9781250104588
Format: Hardback
$71.25

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Venomous Encounters: Snakes, Vivisection and Scientific Medicine in Colonial Australia

Venomous Encounters: Snakes, Vivisection and Scientific...

Author: Peter Hobbins ,  Andrew Thompson
ISBN: 9781526101440
Format: Hardback
$183.99

Presents a radically new view of the role of science and scientific methodology in the colonies. It explores the...  Read More >>

Anxiety

Anxiety

Author: Gerald Litwack (Toluca Lake, North Hollywood, CA, USA)
ISBN: 9780128119143
Format: Hardback
$554.40

Anxiety, the latest volume in the Vitamins and Hormones series first published in 1943, and the longest-running...  Read More >>

Nursing with a Message: Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City

Nursing with a Message: Public Health Demonstration...

Author: Patricia D'Antonio
ISBN: 9780813571027
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Public health demonstration projects have been touted as an innovative solution to the US's health care crisis....  Read More >>

Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain, 1700-1920

Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain, 1700-1920...

Author: Christopher Lawrence
ISBN: 9781138181618
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Christopher Lawrence's critical overview of the way medicine has developed in Britain over the last two centuries...  Read More >>

Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine, and Modernity in WWI Germany

Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine, and Modernity...

Author: Heather Perry ,  Heather R. Perry
ISBN: 9781526106773
Format: Paperback
$56.99

"Examines the ""medical organisation"" of Imperial Germany for total war"  Read More >>

Crown Street Women's Hospital: A history 1893-1983

Crown Street Women's Hospital: A history 1893-1983

Author: Judith Godden
ISBN: 9781743318409
Format: Paperback
$45.00

The history of Sydney's pioneering maternity hospital is also a history of medical care for women in Australia,...  Read More >>

Summary & Study Guide - The Gene: An Intimate History: Based on the Book by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Summary & Study Guide - The Gene: An Intimate History:...

Author: Lee Tang
ISBN: 9781542816212
Format: Paperback
$23.63

Why Do Genetics Matter to You? The must-read summary of The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee....  Read More >>

Osiris, Volume 31: History of Science and the Emotions

Osiris, Volume 31: History of Science and the Emotions...

Author: Otniel E. Dror ,  Bettina Hitzer
ISBN: 9780226392042
Format: Paperback
$57.95

What new insights become available for historians when emotions are included as an analytical category? This volume...  Read More >>

View from the Deck: Recollections of the 10th Annual Voyage of the CGS C.D. Howe, 1959

View from the Deck: Recollections of the 10th Annual...

Author: Murray Ault
ISBN: 9780994922007
Format: Paperback
$33.61

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Rheumatism: Its History from the Advent of Experimental Science to the Impact of Bacteriology

Rheumatism: Its History from the Advent of Experimental...

Author: Thomas G Benedek
ISBN: 9781536104301
Format: Hardback
$481.25

Rheumatism: From the Advent of Experimental Science to the Impact of Bacteriology follows Rheumatism: Its History...  Read More >>

Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States

Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual...

Author: James Trent (Professor of Sociology and Social Work, Professor of Sociology and Social Work, Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9780199396184
Format: Paperback
$74.95

Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of intellectual disability from its several identifications in the...  Read More >>

Righteous Rebels: AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Crusade to Change the World

Righteous Rebels: AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Crusade...

Author: Patrick Range McDonald
ISBN: 9781938849930
Format: Paperback
$29.99

The inspiring story of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a tiny grassroots nonprofit in the '80s that has become a global...  Read More >>

The Art of Distillation: (An Introduction to the Spagyric Arts

The Art of Distillation: (An Introduction to the Spagyric...

Author: Dr John French
ISBN: 9781542767507
Format: Paperback
$34.29

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Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet

Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History...

Author: Janet Gyatso
ISBN: 9780231164979
Format: Paperback
$99.95

A definitive account of the efforts by Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and other conservatives to remake American...  Read More >>

Diphtheria Serum as a Technological Object: A Philosophical Analysis of Serotherapy in France 1894-1900

Diphtheria Serum as a Technological Object: A Philosophical...

Author: Jonathan Simon
ISBN: 9781498531474
Format: Hardback
$240.00

This book is a philosophical analysis of the development and production of the anti-diphtheria serum in France...  Read More >>

Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics

Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention...

Author: Andrew J. Hogan (Lecturer in Science, Technology, and Society, Creighton University)
ISBN: 9781421420745
Format: Hardback
$90.99

Written for historians, sociologists, and anthropologists of science and medicine, as well as bioethics scholars,...  Read More >>

Early Tantric Medicine: Snakebite, Mantras, and Healing in the Garuda Tantras

Early Tantric Medicine: Snakebite, Mantras, and Healing...

Author: Michael Slouber (Assistant Professor of South Asia, Assistant Professor of South Asia, Western Washington University)
ISBN: 9780190461812
Format: Hardback
$262.00

Early Tantric Medicine explores the mantra-based systems for healing snakebite found in the ancient Hindu texts...  Read More >>

Mad-Doctors in the Dock: Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913

Mad-Doctors in the Dock: Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913...

Author: Joel Peter Eigen (Professor, Franklin & Marshall College)
ISBN: 9781421420486
Format: Hardback
$90.99

The first comprehensive account of how medical insight and folk psychology met in the courtroom, this book makes...  Read More >>

Medizin im Konzentrationslager Flossenbuerg 1938 bis 1945: Biografische Annaeherungen an Taeter, Opfer und Tatbestaende

Medizin im Konzentrationslager Flossenbuerg 1938 bis...

Author: Karl-Heinz Leven ,  Jessica Tannenbaum
ISBN: 9783631675632
Format: Hardback
$133.64

Die Quellenstudie zu den Lagerärzten des KZ Flossenbürg liefert einen Beitrag zur Medizingeschichte der NS-Verbrechen...  Read More >>

Dore Lectures on Mental Science

Dore Lectures on Mental Science

Author: Judge Thomas Troward
ISBN: 9781542636230
Format: Paperback
$15.81

Thomas Troward (1847 - 1916) was a British author born in Punjab, India to British parents. His works greatly influenced...  Read More >>

Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes...

Author: Jennifer Wright ,  Gabra Zackman
ISBN: 9781504799003
Format: Audio
$79.07

A witty, irreverent tour of history's worst plagues-from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio-and a celebration...  Read More >>

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