History of medicine books

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Tu Youyou And The Discovery Of Artemisinin: 2015 Nobel Laureate In Physiology Or Medicine

Tu Youyou And The Discovery Of Artemisinin: 2015 Nobel...

Author: Yi Rao (Peking Univ, China) ,  Daqing Zhang (Peking Univ, China)
ISBN: 9789813109896
Format: Paperback
$82.80

Nobel laureate Tu Youyou won the 2015 prize for Medicine/Physiology for the discovery of artemisinin, a drug therapy...  Read More >>

Arnau de Villeneuve: I. Un Spirituel Soupconne d'Heresie

Arnau de Villeneuve: I. Un Spirituel Soupconne d'Heresie...

Author: Jean Canteins ,  Arnau De Villeneuve
ISBN: 9782251420578
Format: Paperback
$182.16

English summary: Arnau de Vilanova was one of the most singular thinkers of this time, producing erudite theological...  Read More >>

The Doctor in the Victorian Novel: Family Practices

The Doctor in the Victorian Novel: Family Practices...

Author: Tabitha Sparks
ISBN: 9781138275409
Format: Paperback
$105.00

By focusing on the figure of the doctor rather than on a scientific theme or medical field, this title emulates...  Read More >>

Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction

Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective...

Author: Christopher Pittard
ISBN: 9781138276260
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, LT Meads, and Marie Belloc...  Read More >>

Microbes Fight Back: Antibiotic Resistance

Microbes Fight Back: Antibiotic Resistance

Author: Laura Bowater (University of East Anglia, UK)
ISBN: 9781782621676
Format: Paperback
$56.90

Antibiotics are familiar drugs to us all, this topical popular science book considers the past, present and uncertain...  Read More >>

Tu Youyou And The Discovery Of Artemisinin: 2015 Nobel Laureate In Physiology Or Medicine

Tu Youyou And The Discovery Of Artemisinin: 2015 Nobel...

Author: Yi Rao (Peking Univ, China) ,  Daqing Zhang (Peking Univ, China)
ISBN: 9789813109889
Format: Hardback
$144.90

Nobel laureate Tu Youyou won the 2015 prize for Medicine/Physiology for the discovery of artemisinin, a drug therapy...  Read More >>

Reinventing Hippocrates

Reinventing Hippocrates

Author: David Cantor
ISBN: 9781138263550
Format: Paperback
$114.00

This collection of essays explores the multiple uses, constructions and meanings of Hippocrates and Hippocratic...  Read More >>

'Regimental Practice' by John Buchanan, M.D.: An Eighteenth-Century Medical Diary and Manual

'Regimental Practice' by John Buchanan, M.D.: An Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Paul Kopperman
ISBN: 9781138262201
Format: Paperback
$105.00

In 1746, Dr John Buchanan, recently retired as a medical officer in the British Army, produced a manuscript entitled,...  Read More >>

Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture

Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture...

Author: Kathleen P. Long
ISBN: 9781138266070
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France: Stories of Gender and Reproduction

Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France: Stories of Gender...

Author: Kirk D. Read
ISBN: 9781138262027
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750-1800

The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and...

Author: Matthew D. Eddy
ISBN: 9781138265646
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Focuses on developments at the Medical School of the University of Edinburgh and the teaching of one of Scotland's...  Read More >>

Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England

Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and...

Author: Jennifer C. Vaught
ISBN: 9781138266063
Format: Paperback
$105.00

A collection of essays that examines the vast extent to which rhetorical figures related to sickness and health...  Read More >>

The Great Nation in Decline: Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in Revolutionary France c.1750–1850

The Great Nation in Decline: Sex, Modernity and Health...

Author: Sean M. Quinlan
ISBN: 9781138265486
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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Pastoral Drama and Healing in Early Modern Italy

Pastoral Drama and Healing in Early Modern Italy

Author: Federico Schneider
ISBN: 9781138265851
Format: Paperback
$105.00

A study that confronts the well rehearsed analogy of the pastoral poet as healer. It raises such questions as: How...  Read More >>

SickKids: The History of The Hospital for Sick Children

SickKids: The History of The Hospital for Sick Children...

Author: David Wright ,  Mary Jo Haddad
ISBN: 9781442647237
Format: Hardback
$79.99

David Wright's SickKids: The History of the Hospital for Sick Children chronicles the remarkable history of SickKids,...  Read More >>

Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth...

Author: James Kelly ,  Fiona Clark
ISBN: 9781138261976
Format: Paperback
$69.99

The story of early modern medicine, with its extremes of scientific brilliance and barbaric practice, has long held...  Read More >>

The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New...

Author: Donald R Kirsch ,  Ogi Ogas
ISBN: 9781665287449
Format: Audio
$42.21

The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.  Read More >>

The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New...

Author: Donald R Kirsch ,  Ogi Ogas
ISBN: 9781665287432
Format: Audio
$42.21

The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.  Read More >>

The Drug Hunters Lib/E: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

The Drug Hunters Lib/E: The Improbable Quest to Discover...

Author: Donald R Kirsch ,  Ogi Ogas
ISBN: 9781665287425
Format: Audio
$42.21

The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity--by...  Read More >>

Yellow Fever Years: An Epidemiology of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

Yellow Fever Years: An Epidemiology of Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Ingrid Gessner
ISBN: 9783631674123
Format: Hardback
$160.43

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Food in Shakespeare: Early Modern Dietaries and the Plays

Food in Shakespeare: Early Modern Dietaries and the...

Author: Joan Fitzpatrick
ISBN: 9781138265066
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Studies the common and exotic food in Shakespeare's plays. This book explores early modern English dietary literature...  Read More >>

With Words and Knives: Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England

With Words and Knives: Learning Medical Dispassion in...

Author: Lynda Payne
ISBN: 9781138257177
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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Staging Anatomies: Dissection and Spectacle in Early Stuart Tragedy

Staging Anatomies: Dissection and Spectacle in Early...

Author: Hillary M. Nunn
ISBN: 9781138264267
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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