History of medicine books

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Melancholy and the Care of the Soul: Religion, Moral Philosophy and Madness in Early Modern England

Melancholy and the Care of the Soul: Religion, Moral...

Author: Jeremy Schmidt
ISBN: 9781138252738
Format: Paperback
$114.00

As a study in intellectual history, this work offers insights into early modern texts on melancholy, including dramatic...  Read More >>

Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800–1914

Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries,...

Author: Catherine Mills
ISBN: 9781138274204
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This book explores the emergence and growth of state responsibility for safer and healthier working practices in...  Read More >>

Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt

Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial...

Author: Hibba Abugideiri
ISBN: 9781138253162
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe

Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe

Author: Stephen Pender ,  Nancy S. Struever
ISBN: 9781138246225
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence

The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern...

Author: Helen King
ISBN: 9781138247628
Format: Paperback
$114.00

By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains...  Read More >>

Medicine, Government and Public Health in Philip II's Spain: Shared Interests, Competing Authorities

Medicine, Government and Public Health in Philip II's...

Author: Michele L. Clouse
ISBN: 9781138246379
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Bridging the gap between histories of medicine and political/institutional histories of the early modern crown,...  Read More >>

Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture

Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture

Author: Freya Sierhuis ,  Brian Cummings
ISBN: 9781138245877
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Framed within a wide range of ideas, including politics and religion, this volume makes new connections between...  Read More >>

Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History

Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History

Author: DK
ISBN: 9781465453419
Format: Hardback
$105.60

See the greatest medical breakthroughs come to life through superb illustrations! From ancient herbal medicine...  Read More >>

Gendered Drugs and Medicine: Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspectives

Gendered Drugs and Medicine: Historical and Socio-Cultural...

Author: Teresa Ortiz-Gomez ,  María Jesús Santesmases
ISBN: 9781138271470
Format: Paperback
$103.00

Drugs are considered to be healers and harmers, wonder substances and knowledge makers; objects that impact on social...  Read More >>

Wounds in the Middle Ages

Wounds in the Middle Ages

Author: Anne Kirkham ,  Cordelia Warr
ISBN: 9781138245822
Format: Paperback
$114.00

This book focuses on the representation, perception and treatment of wounds in the Middle Ages. Contributors situate...  Read More >>

Miners' Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining

Miners' Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal...

Author: Arthur McIvor ,  Ronald Johnston
ISBN: 9781138273740
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston explore the experience of coal miners' lung diseases and the attempts at voluntary...  Read More >>

Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology and Display

Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond:...

Author: Piers Mitchell
ISBN: 9781138246454
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Excavations of medical school and workhouse cemeteries undertaken in Britain in the last decade have unearthed fascinating...  Read More >>

Galen, De diebus decretoriis, from Greek into Arabic: A Critical Edition, with Translation and Commentary, of Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Kitab ayyam al-buhran

Galen, De diebus decretoriis, from Greek into Arabic:...

Author: Glen M. Cooper
ISBN: 9781138250833
Format: Paperback
$114.00

This book presents the first edition, translation, and study of Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Arabic translation of the Galenic...  Read More >>

Before My Helpless Sight: Suffering, Dying and Military Medicine on the Western Front, 1914–1918

Before My Helpless Sight: Suffering, Dying and Military...

Author: Leo van Bergen
ISBN: 9781138270053
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Despite the numerous vicious conflicts that scared the twentieth century, the horrors of the Western Front continue...  Read More >>

Physicians and War

Physicians and War

Author: Simon Shorvon ,  Humphrey Hodgson
ISBN: 9781408706282
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The fourth book in the 500 Reflections on the RCP series, focusing on of the Royal College of Physicians and war....  Read More >>

Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England

Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England

Author: Dr Anne Stobart (University of Exeter, UK)
ISBN: 9781472580344
Format: Paperback
$54.99

How did 17th-century families in England perceive their health care needs? What household resources were available...  Read More >>

Doctor of Society: Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England

Doctor of Society: Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in...

Author: Roy Porter
ISBN: 9781138698802
Format: Hardback
$284.00

First published in 1992, this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards health, sickness and...  Read More >>

Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England

Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England

Author: Dr Anne Stobart (University of Exeter, UK)
ISBN: 9781472580351
Format: Hardback
$240.00

How did 17th-century families in England perceive their health care needs? What household resources were available...  Read More >>

A Pestilence on Pennsylvania Avenue: The Impact of Disease Upon the American Presidency

A Pestilence on Pennsylvania Avenue: The Impact of Disease...

Author: David Petricello
ISBN: 9781939995179
Format: Paperback
$38.68

"""A Pestilence on Pennsylvania Avenue"" explores the impact and influence of disease and illness on the American...  Read More >>

ANZAC Girls

ANZAC Girls

Author: Peter Rees ,  Anna Mcgahan
ISBN: 9781489099624
Format: Audio
$39.57

By the end of the Great War, forty - five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over...  Read More >>

Nobody Here Will Harm You: Mass Medical Evacuation from the Eastern Arctic 1950-1965

Nobody Here Will Harm You: Mass Medical Evacuation from...

Author: Shawn Selway
ISBN: 9781928088097
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Winner: 2017 Hamilton Literary Award for Non-fiction Perhaps you are wondering why you are brought down from...  Read More >>

Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy: The Carrara Herbal in Padua

Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy: The Carrara...

Author: Sarah R. Kyle
ISBN: 9781472446527
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Francesco Novello, the last prince of Padua’s edition of Serapion the Younger’s herbal, known as the Carrara Herbal...  Read More >>

Origin of Diseases

Origin of Diseases

Author: Yun-Chul Hong
ISBN: 9781634857819
Format: Paperback
$310.20

"While covering human history, civilization, and diseases to reveal why humans are sick with many ailments, this...  Read More >>

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