History of medicine books

42358 books were found.

Gender, Medicine, and Society in Colonial India: Women's Health Care in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Bengal

Gender, Medicine, and Society in Colonial India: Women's...

Author: Sujata Mukherjee (Professor, Department of History, Professor, Department of History, Rabindra Bharati University)
ISBN: 9780199468225
Format: Hardback
$80.00

This manuscript analyses the interface between medicine and colonial society through the lens of gender. The work...  Read More >>

The Seaside, Health and the Environment in England and Wales since 1800

The Seaside, Health and the Environment in England and...

Author: John Hassan
ISBN: 9781138272057
Format: Paperback
$105.00

The seaside has always held a special position in British history as a place of rest, relaxation and recuperation....  Read More >>

Musical Healing in Cultural Contexts

Musical Healing in Cultural Contexts

Author: Penelope Gouk
ISBN: 9781138276727
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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City of Health, Fields of Disease: Revolutions in the Poetry, Medicine, and Philosophy of Romanticism

City of Health, Fields of Disease: Revolutions in the...

Author: Martin Wallen
ISBN: 9781138277625
Format: Paperback
$105.00

The Romantic Era witnessed a series of conflicts concerning definitions of health and disease. Here, Wallen discusses...  Read More >>

From Anesthesia to X-Rays: Innovations and Discoveries That Changed Medicine Forever

From Anesthesia to X-Rays: Innovations and Discoveries...

Author: Christiane Nockels Fabbri ,  Sandra Panem
ISBN: 9781610695732
Format: Hardback
$108.00

Easy to read and to use, this A-to-Z mini-encyclopedia covers the most important medical innovations of the last...  Read More >>

El emperador de todos los males / The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

El emperador de todos los males / The Emperor of All...

Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
ISBN: 9786073143639
Format: Paperback
$65.87

"Uno de los mejores libros de no ficción la década del 2010 según Times En 2010, siete millones de personas murieron...  Read More >>

Romanticism, Medicine, and the Poet's Body

Romanticism, Medicine, and the Poet's Body

Author: James Robert Allard
ISBN: 9781138269316
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Documents the way medical discourse consolidates a body susceptible to medical authority that is then represented...  Read More >>

Public Health and Municipal Policy Making: Britain and Sweden, 1900–1940

Public Health and Municipal Policy Making: Britain and...

Author: Marjaana Niemi
ISBN: 9781138270985
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Focuses on the power which medical knowledge has had in legitimising the rhetoric that surrounds municipal policy...  Read More >>

Music as Medicine: The History of Music Therapy Since Antiquity

Music as Medicine: The History of Music Therapy Since...

Author: Peregrine Horden
ISBN: 9781138269422
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Music, whether performed or heard, has been seen as therapeutic in the history of many cultures. This volume explores...  Read More >>

HIV & AIDS: A Very Short Introduction

HIV & AIDS: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Alan Whiteside (CIGI Chair in Global Health Policy, Balsillie School of International Development and Wilfred Laurier University and Professor Emeritus University of KwaZulu-Natal)
ISBN: 9780198727491
Format: Paperback
$21.95

HIV/ AIDS continues to be a major public health issue, affecting millions of sufferers worldwide. This Very Short...  Read More >>

Women Medical Doctors in the United States before the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary

Women Medical Doctors in the United States before the...

Author: Edward C. Atwater
ISBN: 9781580465717
Format: Hardback
$132.00

An invaluable reference work chronicling the lives of over 200 women who received medical degrees in the United...  Read More >>

Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the First World War

Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the First World...

Author: Jason Crouthamel ,  Peter Leese
ISBN: 9783319334752
Format: Hardback
$258.72

To uncover the varied forms of trauma ignored by medical and political authorities, this volume draws on diverse...  Read More >>

The Recent History of Tumour Necrosis Factor (Tnf)

The Recent History of Tumour Necrosis Factor (Tnf)

Author: A Zarros ,  E M Jones
ISBN: 9781910195208
Format: Paperback
$15.53

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Cancer Drug Discovery: Science and History

Cancer Drug Discovery: Science and History

Author: Kyu-Won Kim ,  Jae Kyung Roh
ISBN: 9789402408423
Format: Hardback
$388.10

The reader will discover a comprehensive and multifaceted overview of the history of the development of anticancer...  Read More >>

Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century

Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social...

Author: Jeremy A. Greene (The John Hopkins University) ,  Flurin Condrau
ISBN: 9780226390734
Format: Hardback
$195.95

When asked to compare the practice of medicine today to that of a hundred years ago, most people will respond with...  Read More >>

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2: Geographical and Administrative Designations

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2: Geographical...

Author: Hua Linfu ,  Paul D. Buell
ISBN: 9780520291966
Format: Hardback
$248.95

Compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518-1593) on the...  Read More >>

Writing Case Reports: A Practical Guide from Conception through Publication

Writing Case Reports: A Practical Guide from Conception...

Author: Clifford D. Packer ,  Gabrielle N. Berger
ISBN: 9783319418988
Format: Paperback
$168.16

This book guides readers through the process from choosing a case to report on to finding a publisher and then comment...  Read More >>

Schreibarbeit: Die alltägliche Wissenspraxis eines Bieler Arztes im 19. Jahrhundert

Schreibarbeit: Die alltägliche Wissenspraxis eines Bieler...

Author: Lina Gafner
ISBN: 9783161549083
Format: Hardback
$186.30

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Medical Consulting by Letter in France, 1665–1789

Medical Consulting by Letter in France, 1665–1789

Author: Robert Weston
ISBN: 9781138279728
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Ailing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French men and women, members of their families, or their local physician...  Read More >>

Fiber, Medicine, and Culture in the British Enlightenment

Fiber, Medicine, and Culture in the British Enlightenment...

Author: Hisao Ishizuka
ISBN: 9781137580924
Format: Hardback
$192.95

This book provides a full account of the concept of fiber and fiber theory in eighteenth-century British medicine....  Read More >>

Physicians, Plagues and Progress: The History of Western medicine from Antiquity to Antibiotics

Physicians, Plagues and Progress: The History of Western...

Author: Allan Chapman
ISBN: 9780745968957
Format: Hardback
$51.75

A fascinating and adventurous insight into the origin and development of medicine and surgery.  Read More >>

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