History of medicine books

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Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art: Studies in Scatology

Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art: Studies...

Author: Jeff Persels ,  Russell Ganim
ISBN: 9781138257924
Format: Paperback
$105.00

The subject of excrement or faeces is normally the domain of clinicians or puerile comedy. However this collection...  Read More >>

Electroconvulsive Therapy in America: The Anatomy of a Medical Controversy

Electroconvulsive Therapy in America: The Anatomy of...

Author: Jonathan Sadowsky (Case Western University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138696969
Format: Hardback
$315.00

"Electroconvulsive Therapy is widely demonized or idealized. Some detractors consider its very use to be a human...  Read More >>

Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886-1916

Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England,...

Author: Anne R. Hanley
ISBN: 9783319324548
Format: Hardback
$206.97

This book reveals the ever-present challenges of patient care at the forefront of medical knowledge.  Read More >>

A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples

A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives...

Author: Randall M. Packard (Director, The Johns Hopkins University)
ISBN: 9781421420332
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Designed to be read and taught, the book offers a critical historical view, providing historians, policy makers,...  Read More >>

Organizing the Blind: The case of ONCE in Spain

Organizing the Blind: The case of ONCE in Spain

Author: Roberto Garvía
ISBN: 9781472474247
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book is a case study which narrates the history of the National Organization of the Spanish Blind (ONCE). An...  Read More >>

The Enlightenment of Thomas Beddoes: Science, medicine, and reform

The Enlightenment of Thomas Beddoes: Science, medicine,...

Author: Trevor Levere (University of Toronto, Canada) ,  Larry Stewart (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
ISBN: 9781472488299
Format: Hardback
$326.00

As the authors of this book note, Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) lived in ‘decidedly interesting times’ in which established...  Read More >>

Spuren der Avantgarde: Theatrum alchemicum: Frühe Neuzeit und Moderne im Kulturvergleich

Spuren der Avantgarde: Theatrum alchemicum: Frühe Neuzeit...

Author: Helmar Schramm (†) ,  Michael Lorber
ISBN: 9783110303902
Format: Hardback
$308.79

Examining the recourse to alchemical experimental practices by the early 20th century avant-garde movement in Europe...  Read More >>

Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Religion in Post-Reformation Scandinavia

Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Religion in Post-Reformation...

Author: Ole Grell (The Open University, UK) ,  Andrew Cunningham
ISBN: 9781472439581
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The close relationship between religion, medicine and natural philosophy in the post-reformation period has been...  Read More >>

Testing the Waters: Lessons from the History of Drug Research

Testing the Waters: Lessons from the History of Drug...

Author: Allan Gaw, MD, PhD (Professor and Director Northern Ireland Clinical Research Facility Belfast UK)
ISBN: 9780956324252
Format: Paperback
$38.50

What can we learn from the past that may be relevant to modern drug research?In this book Allan Gaw shows us how...  Read More >>

Heinrich Hahn: Arzt - Politiker - Grunder Des Missionswerks Missio

Heinrich Hahn: Arzt - Politiker - Grunder Des Missionswerks...

Author: Judith Rosen
ISBN: 9783506786166
Format: Paperback
$110.88

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Synopsis Medicinae: Or a Compendium of Galenical and Chymical Physick

Synopsis Medicinae: Or a Compendium of Galenical and...

Author: Zerobabel Endecott ,  George Francis Dow
ISBN: 9781540766779
Format: Paperback
$18.45

From the INTRODUCTION. Zerobabel Endecott, the author or compiler of the following collection of medical recipes,...  Read More >>

Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes

Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two...

Author: Gerald N. Callahan
ISBN: 9781613736548
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Offers a look at the science of sex and what makes people male or female. This book explains dozens of intersex...  Read More >>

Robert Koch and American Bacteriology

Robert Koch and American Bacteriology

Author: Richard Adler
ISBN: 9781476662596
Format: Paperback
$105.47

During bacteriology's Golden Age (roughly 1870-1890) European physicians focused on the role of bacteria as causal...  Read More >>

The Art of Asylum-Keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry

The Art of Asylum-Keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and...

Author: Nancy Tomes
ISBN: 9781512808377
Format: Hardback
$211.07

The Art of Asylum-Keeping is a social history of medical practice in a private nineteenth-century asylum, the Pennsylvania...  Read More >>

Hippocrate: Tome IV, 1re Partie: Epidemies I Et III

Hippocrate: Tome IV, 1re Partie: Epidemies I Et III...

Author: Jacques Jouanna ,  Professor Jacques Jouanna
ISBN: 9782251006116
Format: Paperback
$182.16

Le traite, dont le titre originel est inconnu, est l'un des fleurons les plus remarquables du rationalisme hippocratique....  Read More >>

Galien, Oeuvres: Tome VI: Theriaque a Pison

Galien, Oeuvres: Tome VI: Theriaque a Pison

Author: Veronique Boudon-Millot
ISBN: 9782251006093
Format: Paperback
$182.16

Composee de plus de soixante-dix ingredients dont l'opium et la chair de vipere, d'ou elle tire son nom, la theriaque...  Read More >>

Pioneers in Plastic Surgery

Pioneers in Plastic Surgery

Author: David Tolhurst
ISBN: 9783319368542
Format: Paperback
$139.70

This book is a collection of short accounts of the lives and works of surgeons who began to use techniques in the...  Read More >>

Henri de Rothschild, 1872–1947: Medicine and Theater

Henri de Rothschild, 1872–1947: Medicine and Theater...

Author: Harry W. Paul
ISBN: 9781138272187
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Dr Henri de Rothschild was a fifth generation Rothschild and perhaps the most famous of the Paris Rothschilds of...  Read More >>

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