History of medicine books

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Disability in Antiquity

Disability in Antiquity

Author: Christian Laes (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781138814851
Format: Hardback
$525.00

This volume is a major contribution to the field of disability history in the ancient world. Contributions from...  Read More >>

Portraits of the Insane: Theodore Gericault and the Subject of Psychotherapy

Portraits of the Insane: Theodore Gericault and the...

Author: Robert Snell
ISBN: 9781782202479
Format: Paperback
$73.99

The book sketches the history of this last process, from the Enlightenment through to the Revolution and its public...  Read More >>

The Art of cookery, made plain and easy: which far exceeds any thing of the kind yet published

The Art of cookery, made plain and easy: which far exceeds...

Author: Hannah Glasse
ISBN: 9783743304284
Format: Paperback
$91.86

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Body Messages: The Quest for the Proteins of Cellular Communication

Body Messages: The Quest for the Proteins of Cellular...

Author: Giamila Fantuzzi ,  Hannah Landecker
ISBN: 9780674088948
Format: Hardback
$76.95

Whether classified as regulators of inflammation, metabolism, or other functions, a distinctive set of molecules...  Read More >>

Von Kommissaren Und Kamelen: Heinrich Zeiss - Arzt Und Kundschafter in Der Sowjetunion 1921-1931

Von Kommissaren Und Kamelen: Heinrich Zeiss - Arzt Und...

Author: Wolfgang U Eckart
ISBN: 9783506785848
Format: Hardback
$179.52

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Human Subjects Research after the Holocaust

Human Subjects Research after the Holocaust

Author: Sheldon Rubenfeld ,  Susan Benedict
ISBN: 9783319343228
Format: Paperback
$232.85

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Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture

Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval...

Author: Virginia Langum
ISBN: 9781137465580
Format: Hardback
$204.95

Virginia Langum offers anaccount of the medical imagery used to describe feelings and actions inreligious and literary...  Read More >>

Quarantine: Local and Global Histories

Quarantine: Local and Global Histories

Author: Alison Bashford
ISBN: 9781137524454
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Recent Ebola outbreaks have focussed the world's attention on disease and quarantine. In this first global history...  Read More >>

Les Pierres Du Moyen Age: Anthologie Des Lapidaires Medievaux

Les Pierres Du Moyen Age: Anthologie Des Lapidaires...

Author: Valerie Gontero-Lauze
ISBN: 9782251445946
Format: Paperback
$79.20

English summary: People in the Middle Ages believed in the powers of precious stones: their medicinal and magical...  Read More >>

Quarantine: Local and Global Histories

Quarantine: Local and Global Histories

Author: Alison Bashford
ISBN: 9781137524447
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Recent Ebola outbreaks have focussed the world's attention on disease and quarantine. In this first global history...  Read More >>

Classification, Disease and Evidence: New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine

Classification, Disease and Evidence: New Essays in...

Author: Philippe Huneman ,  Gérard Lambert
ISBN: 9789402406627
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which...  Read More >>

Borelli's On the Movement of Animals - On the Natural Motions Resulting from Gravity

Borelli's On the Movement of Animals - On the Natural...

Author: Giovanni Alfonso Borelli ,  Paul Maquet
ISBN: 9783319362168
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This volume provides an introduction to Borelli’s theory on the movement of animals and describes his theory and...  Read More >>

An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World

An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History...

Author: Roy J. Shephard
ISBN: 9783319383637
Format: Paperback
$465.72

This book examines the health/fitness interaction in an historical context. Beginning in primitive hunter-gatherer...  Read More >>

Texturen Der Schwindsucht: Die Phtisie Im Wechselspiel Von Franzosischer Medizin Und Literatur (1830-1900)

Texturen Der Schwindsucht: Die Phtisie Im Wechselspiel...

Author: Eva-Verena Siebenborn
ISBN: 9783447101905
Format: Hardback
$176.88

"English summary: The goal of Eva-Verena Siebenborn's study is to show the culture-generating power of consumption...  Read More >>

Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200–1550

Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200–1550...

Author: Jean A. Givens ,  Karen M. Reeds
ISBN: 9781138270831
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Images in medieval and early modern treatises on medicine, pharmacy, and natural history often confound our expectations...  Read More >>

Nursing before Nightingale, 1815-1899

Nursing before Nightingale, 1815-1899

Author: Carol Helmstadter ,  Judith Godden
ISBN: 9781138248885
Format: Paperback
$105.00

A study of the transformation of nursing in England from the beginning of the nineteenth century until the emergence...  Read More >>

The Anatomist Anatomis'd: An Experimental Discipline in Enlightenment Europe

The Anatomist Anatomis'd: An Experimental Discipline...

Author: Andrew Cunningham
ISBN: 9781138246423
Format: Paperback
$114.00

The eighteenth-century practitioners of anatomy saw their own period as 'the perfection of anatomy'. This book looks...  Read More >>

Renaissance Food from Rabelais to Shakespeare: Culinary Readings and Culinary Histories

Renaissance Food from Rabelais to Shakespeare: Culinary...

Author: Joan Fitzpatrick
ISBN: 9781138252929
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Providing a fresh perspective on an aspect of early modern culture, this title focuses on the role of food and diet...  Read More >>

The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human 'Material' in Modern Medical History

The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human 'Material'...

Author: Sally Wilde ,  Sarah Ferber
ISBN: 9781138246829
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England

Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth...

Author: Adrian Wilson
ISBN: 9781138250598
Format: Paperback
$114.00

This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships....  Read More >>

Negotiating the French Pox in Early Modern Germany

Negotiating the French Pox in Early Modern Germany

Author: Claudia Stein
ISBN: 9781138253230
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England

Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England...

Author: David Houston Wood
ISBN: 9781138246171
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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