History of medicine books

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Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences

Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies,...

Author: Projit Bihari Mukharji
ISBN: 9780226381794
Format: Hardback
$240.95

Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice transformed dramatically in the later nineteenth...  Read More >>

To Comfort Always: A history of palliative medicine since the nineteenth century

To Comfort Always: A history of palliative medicine...

Author: David Clark (Professor of Medical Sociology, Professor of Medical Sociology, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9780199674282
Format: Hardback
$105.95

Covers the rise of clinical studies, academic programmes and international collaborations to promote palliative...  Read More >>

The Proceedings of the 21st Annual History of Medicine Days Conference 2012

The Proceedings of the 21st Annual History of Medicine...

Author: Aleksandra Loewenau ,  Aleksandra Loewenau
ISBN: 9781443897655
Format: Hardback
$279.71

The Proceedings of the Calgary History of Medicine Days can be seen as a Series in the History of Medicine and Health...  Read More >>

Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease

Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as...

Author: James Kennaway
ISBN: 9781138249141
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's Iyre, but the notion that it might be...  Read More >>

Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After

Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After...

Author: Peter Leese ,  Jason Crouthamel
ISBN: 9783319334691
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This collection investigates the social and cultural history of trauma to offer a comparative analysis of its individual,...  Read More >>

From Last Hope to First Aid: Stories from the History of Emergency Medicine

From Last Hope to First Aid: Stories from the History...

Author: Francesco Adami
ISBN: 9781540340177
Format: Paperback
$37.57

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The Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, 1916–2016: A Dental School on University Lines

The Columbia University College of Dental Medicine,...

Author: Allan Formicola
ISBN: 9780231180887
Format: Hardback
$69.95

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The Least Likely Man: Marshall Nirenberg and the Discovery of the Genetic Code

The Least Likely Man: Marshall Nirenberg and the Discovery...

Author: Franklin H. Portugal
ISBN: 9780262529938
Format: Paperback
$59.99

How unassuming government researcher Marshall Nirenberg beat James Watson, Francis Crick, and other world-famous...  Read More >>

Louis Harold Gray: A Founding Father of Radiobiology

Louis Harold Gray: A Founding Father of Radiobiology...

Author: Sinclair Wynchank
ISBN: 9783319433967
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book is a scientific biography of Louis Harold (“Hal”) Gray, FRS (1905–65), a pioneer in radiobiology – a little...  Read More >>

Essays on the History of Respiratory Physiology

Essays on the History of Respiratory Physiology

Author: John B. West
ISBN: 9781493949779
Format: Paperback
$475.17

This book consists of 23 essays about prominent people and events in the history of respiratory physiology. Although...  Read More >>

Medicine, Health and Irish Experiences of Conflict, 1914–45

Medicine, Health and Irish Experiences of Conflict,...

Author: David Durnin ,  Ian Miller
ISBN: 9780719097850
Format: Hardback
$195.00

A wide ranging volume on medical history, that examines critical areas of health concerns in Ireland through the...  Read More >>

Individualized Medicine: Ethical, Economical and Historical Perspectives

Individualized Medicine: Ethical, Economical and Historical...

Author: Tobias Fischer ,  Martin Langanke
ISBN: 9783319346984
Format: Paperback
$310.47

In 2009 the University Medicine Greifswald launched the “Greifswald Approach to Individualized Medicine” (GANI_MED)...  Read More >>

The Surgions Mate: The First Compendium on Naval Medicine, Surgery and Drug Therapy (London 1617). Edited and Annotated by Irmgard Müller

The Surgions Mate: The First Compendium on Naval Medicine,...

Author: John Woodall ,  Irmgard Müller
ISBN: 9783319255729
Format: Hardback
$356.95

This book reproduces and comments John Woodall’s handbook which was used as standard text for medical treatment...  Read More >>

Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England

Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early...

Author: Olivia Weisser
ISBN: 9780300224306
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Plague Hospitals: Public Health for the City in Early Modern Venice

Plague Hospitals: Public Health for the City in Early...

Author: Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw
ISBN: 9781138245891
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central role in early modern responses to epidemic disease. An in-depth...  Read More >>

Maritime Quarantine: The British Experience, c.1650–1900

Maritime Quarantine: The British Experience, c.1650–1900...

Author: John Booker
ISBN: 9781138274129
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Examines the methods by which British authorities sought to keep their territories free from contagious diseases,...  Read More >>

New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops

New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops

Author: Paul E. Minnis
ISBN: 9780816534227
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Profiles nine plant species that were important contributors to human diets and medicinal uses in antiquity: maygrass,...  Read More >>

The Heart of Leonardo: Foreword by HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales

The Heart of Leonardo: Foreword by HRH Prince Charles,...

Author: Francis Wells
ISBN: 9781447170068
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book contains all of Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings on the heart and its physiology, accompanied by re-translations...  Read More >>

Bodysnatchers to Lifesavers: Three Centuries of Medicine in Edinburgh

Bodysnatchers to Lifesavers: Three Centuries of Medicine...

Author: Dorothy Crawford ,  Tara Womersley
ISBN: 9781910745373
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Centered on the 280 year history of Edinburgh Medical School, the book showcases famous Edinburgh medical alumni...  Read More >>

Genius Belabored: Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life of Ignaz Semmelweis

Genius Belabored: Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life...

Author: Theodore G. Obenchain
ISBN: 9780817319298
Format: Hardback
$79.07

The fascinating story of Ignaz Semmelweis, a nineteenth-century obstetrician ostracized for his strident advocacy...  Read More >>

Circuit Riders for Mental Health: The Hogg Foundation in Twentieth-Century Texas

Circuit Riders for Mental Health: The Hogg Foundation...

Author: William S. Bush
ISBN: 9781623494445
Format: Hardback
$105.60

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William Watson Cheyne and the Advancement of Bacteriology

William Watson Cheyne and the Advancement of Bacteriology...

Author: Charles DePaolo
ISBN: 9781476666518
Format: Paperback
$105.47

William Watson Cheyne (1852-1932), a surgeon by training and a student of Joseph Lister, was a prominent British...  Read More >>

Der Zahnarzt in der Werbung: Visuelle Imageartikulationen 1950 – 2000

Der Zahnarzt in der Werbung: Visuelle Imageartikulationen...

Author: Gerd Quaty
ISBN: 9783658156008
Format: Hardback
$142.29

Gerd Quaty rekonstruiert die Imagebildung von Zahnärzten in Deutschland von 1950 bis 2000 und zeigt darüber hinaus...  Read More >>

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