History of medicine books

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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: 9781504798983
Format: Audio
$200.64

A witty, irreverent tour of history's worst plagues-from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio-and a celebration...  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: 9781504798990
Format: Audio
$92.27

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

Scent from the Garden of Paradise. Musk and the Medieval Islamic World

Scent from the Garden of Paradise. Musk and the Medieval...

Author: Anya H. King
ISBN: 9789004336247
Format: Hardback
$530.64

Scent from the Garden of Paradise: Musk and the Medieval Islamic World traces the history of musk from ancient Asia...  Read More >>

Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism

Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and...

Author: Lisa Diedrich
ISBN: 9781517900014
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Lisa Diedrich explores how and why illness was so significant to thesocial, political, and institutional transformation...  Read More >>

Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism

Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and...

Author: Lisa Diedrich
ISBN: 9781517900007
Format: Hardback
$146.99

Lisa Diedrich explores how and why illness was so significant to thesocial, political, and institutional transformation...  Read More >>

Deinstitutionalisation and After: Post-War Psychiatry in the Western World

Deinstitutionalisation and After: Post-War Psychiatry...

Author: Despo Kritsotaki ,  Vicky Long
ISBN: 9783319453590
Format: Hardback
$258.72

The book relates the history of post-war psychiatry, focusing on deinstitutionalisation, namely the shift from asylum...  Read More >>

Bodies of Evidence: Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future

Bodies of Evidence: Ancient Anatomical Votives Past,...

Author: Jane Draycott ,  Emma-Jayne Graham
ISBN: 9781472450807
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Dedicating objects to the divine was a central component of both Greek and Roman religion. Some of the most conspicuous...  Read More >>

Accidental Medical Discoveries: How Tenacity and Pure Dumb Luck Changed the World

Accidental Medical Discoveries: How Tenacity and Pure...

Author: Robert W. Winters
ISBN: 9781510712461
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Many of the world's most important and life-saving devices and techniques were often discovered purely by accident....  Read More >>

Scientific Method in Biology

Scientific Method in Biology

Author: Elizabeth Blackwell
ISBN: 9781542364447
Format: Paperback
$15.81

Scientific Method in Biology is a discussion of ethics in medical research published at the beginning of the 20th...  Read More >>

Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery

Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery

Author: Jonathan Lamb
ISBN: 9780691147826
Format: Hardback
$62.99

Scurvy, a disease often associated with long stretches of maritime travel, generated sensations exceeding the standard...  Read More >>

Drugs in Germany and the United States, 1819-1945: The Birth of Two Addictions

Drugs in Germany and the United States, 1819-1945: The...

Author: Jonathan Lewy
ISBN: 9783848732845
Format: Paperback
$256.08

The use of drugs is as old as history. However, it was only fairly recently that, following the rise of modern medicine,...  Read More >>

The Sceptical Chymist: Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes

The Sceptical Chymist: Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes...

Author: Robert Boyle
ISBN: 9781541384804
Format: Paperback
$28.91

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd...  Read More >>

Melancholia: The Western Malady

Melancholia: The Western Malady

Author: Matthew Bell (King's College London)
ISBN: 9781107641792
Format: Paperback
$103.47

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Diabetes Mellitus: A Medical History Journey

Diabetes Mellitus: A Medical History Journey

Author: Donald E Greydanus, MD ,  Joav Merrick
ISBN: 9781536100945
Format: Paperback
$300.12

It is estimated that 86 million adult Americans have prediabetes and with that, a risk of developing T2DM (type...  Read More >>

The Common Lot: Sickness, Medical Occupations and the Urban Poor in Early Modern England

The Common Lot: Sickness, Medical Occupations and the...

Author: Margaret Pelling
ISBN: 9781138155978
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This important collection of Margaret Pelling's essays brings together her key studies of health, medicine and poverty...  Read More >>

Mémoire Physique Et Médicinal, Montrant Des Rapports Évidens Entre Les Phénomènes Tome 2: de la Baguette Divinatoire, Du Magnétisme Et de l'Électricité.

Mémoire Physique Et Médicinal, Montrant Des Rapports...

Author: Pierre Thouvenel
ISBN: 9782014483970
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Mémoire physique et médicinal, montrant des rapports évidens entre les phénomènes de la baguette divinatoire, du...  Read More >>

Il Metodo Anatomo-Clinico Fra Meccanicismo Ed Empirismo: Marcello Malpighi, Antonio Maria

Il Metodo Anatomo-Clinico Fra Meccanicismo Ed Empirismo:...

Author: Fabio Zampieri
ISBN: 9788891311733
Format: Hardback
$617.76

IL METODO ANATOMO-CLINICO FRA MECCANICISMO ED EMPIRISMO: MARCELLO MALPIGHI, ANTONIO MARIA VALSALVA E GIOVANNI BATTISTA...  Read More >>

Medicine, Charity and Mutual Aid: The Consumption of Health and Welfare in Britain, c.1550–1950

Medicine, Charity and Mutual Aid: The Consumption of...

Author: Peter Shapely ,  Anne Borsay
ISBN: 9781138275652
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Focusing on the recipients of charity, rather than the donors or institutions, this book tackles searching questions...  Read More >>

Seeing Suffering in Women's Literature of the Romantic Era

Seeing Suffering in Women's Literature of the Romantic...

Author: Elizabeth A. Dolan
ISBN: 9781138275355
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Arguing that vision was the dominant mode for understanding suffering in the Romantic era, Elizabeth A. Dolan shows...  Read More >>

Healing, Performance and Ceremony in the Writings of Three Early Modern Physicians: Hippolytus Guarinonius and the Brothers Felix and Thomas Platter

Healing, Performance and Ceremony in the Writings of...

Author: M.A. Katritzky
ISBN: 9781138254114
Format: Paperback
$114.00

In early modern Europe medicine and theatre were often regarded as part of the same popular culture. This title...  Read More >>

Centres of Medical Excellence?: Medical Travel and Education in Europe, 1500–1789

Centres of Medical Excellence?: Medical Travel and Education...

Author: Andrew Cunningham ,  Ole Peter Grell
ISBN: 9781138275393
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Students notoriously vote with their feet, seeking out the best and most innovative teachers of their subject. This...  Read More >>

Diabetes Mellitus: Childhood & Adolescence

Diabetes Mellitus: Childhood & Adolescence

Author: Manmohan K Kamboj ,  Donald E Greydanus, MD
ISBN: 9781536100952
Format: Hardback
$481.25

About 29 million Americans (9.3% of the population) in 2012 had diabetes. Approximately 1.25 million American children...  Read More >>

Lovie: The Story of a Southern Midwife and an Unlikely Friendship

Lovie: The Story of a Southern Midwife and an Unlikely...

Author: Lisa Yarger
ISBN: 9781469630052
Format: Hardback
$92.27

From 1950 until 2001, Lovie Beard Shelton practiced midwifery in eastern North Carolina homes, delivering some 4,000...  Read More >>

Titian, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procreation: Equicola's Seasons of Desire

Titian, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procreation:...

Author: Anthony Colantuono
ISBN: 9781138274709
Format: Paperback
$79.99

"Demonstrates that Bellini's and Titian's famous series of mytho-poetical paintings for the camerino of Duke Alfonso...  Read More >>

Dr. Moon: Y Sus Fabulaciones

Dr. Moon: Y Sus Fabulaciones

Author: Rodrigo Leal Becker
ISBN: 9781541355408
Format: Paperback
$14.20

Esta fue la vision fantastica y original de un joven estudiante de medicina, que plasmo las impresiones que recogio...  Read More >>

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