History of medicine books

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The Heart Healers: The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of Our Lives

The Heart Healers: The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels...

Author: James Forrester, M D
ISBN: 9781250105400
Format: Paperback
$52.80

The compelling story of how scientists and doctors learned to save the human heart by one of the men who made it...  Read More >>

Medical History: Some Perspectives

Medical History: Some Perspectives

Author: Donald E Greydanus, MD ,  Joav Merrick
ISBN: 9781634847476
Format: Hardback
$720.06

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Selling Science: Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin

Selling Science: Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin...

Author: Stephen E. Mawdsley
ISBN: 9780813574394
Format: Hardback
$174.11

Drawing on oral history interviews, medical journals, newspapers, meeting minutes, and private institutional records,...  Read More >>

History of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, 1817-1909

History of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia,...

Author: The Medical Societ District of Columbia
ISBN: 9781633913936
Format: Paperback
$66.53

he Medical Society of DC (MSDC) was founded in 1817 and since then has grown to be the largest medical organization...  Read More >>

Blood Picture: L.W. Diggs, Sickle Cell Anemia, and the South’s First Blood Bank

Blood Picture: L.W. Diggs, Sickle Cell Anemia, and the...

Author: Richard H. Nollan
ISBN: 9781621902218
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Essentially a biography of Lemuel Whitley Diggs, Blood Picture relates the life of a physician and intellectual...  Read More >>

When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery...

Author: Frank T. Vertosick ,  Kirby Heyborne
ISBN: 9781515959151
Format: Audio
$65.97

Told through intimate portraits of a neurosurgeon's patients, this book contains detailed descriptions of the surgical...  Read More >>

Darmgesundheit im Mittelalter; Analyse ausgewahlter deutschsprachiger Kochrezepttexte aus dem Munchener Arzneibuch Cgm 415 vor dem Hintergrund der Humoralmedizin und Versuch einer kritischen Bewertung im Lichte moderner pharmakologischer Erkenntnisse

Darmgesundheit im Mittelalter; Analyse ausgewahlter...

Author: Andrea Hofmeister-Winter ,  Elisabeth Sulzer
ISBN: 9783631674970
Format: Hardback
$100.40

Das deutschsprachige Munchener Arzneibuch aus dem 15. Jh. gewahrt mit fast 250 reich kommentierten diatetischen...  Read More >>

Public Health: A Very Short Introduction

Public Health: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Virginia Berridge (Director at the Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
ISBN: 9780199688463
Format: Paperback
$21.95

This Very Short Introduction outlines the nature of public health in our world today and places public health in...  Read More >>

Aphorisms

Aphorisms

Author: Hippocrates ,  Francis Adams
ISBN: 9781537285306
Format: Paperback
$31.55

Aphorisms from Hippocrates. Ancient Greek physician (460-B.C - 376).  Read More >>

The Extensive Practice of the New Husbandry, Exemplified on Different Sorts of Land, for a Course of Years; In Which the Various Methods of Ploughing, Hoeing, Harrowing, and Manureing; And Every Other Process in Agriculture ... Are Considered And...

The Extensive Practice of the New Husbandry, Exemplified...

Author: Francis Forbes
ISBN: 9781362606178
Format: Hardback
$71.15

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Picturing the Lame in Italian Art from Antiquity to the Modern Era

Picturing the Lame in Italian Art from Antiquity to...

Author: Livio Pestilli
ISBN: 9781472469786
Format: Hardback
$315.00

The presence of the orthopedically impaired body in art is so pervasive that, paradoxically, it has failed to attract...  Read More >>

The Mystery of Isabella and the String of Beads: A Woman Doctor in WW1

The Mystery of Isabella and the String of Beads: A Woman...

Author: Katrina Kirkwood
ISBN: 9780995489301
Format: Paperback
$31.02

Had the antique scapels really been used by a woman doctor, Isabella Stenhouse, to tend soldiers in WW1? Was it...  Read More >>

Pay Hospitals and Paying Wards Throughout the World: Facts in Support of a Re-Arrangement of the English System of Medical Relief

Pay Hospitals and Paying Wards Throughout the World:...

Author: Henry C Burdett, Sir
ISBN: 9781537249674
Format: Paperback
$23.73

Mr. Burdett's labours in the cause of pay hospitals are too well known to need mention at our hands. To him is due...  Read More >>

Health Policy and Disease in Colonial and Post-Colonial Hong Kong, 1841-2003

Health Policy and Disease in Colonial and Post-Colonial...

Author: Ka-che Yip (University of Maryland, USA) ,  Yuen Sang Leung
ISBN: 9781138943575
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Besides looking at major outbreaks of diseases and how they were coped with, diseases such as malaria, smallpox,...  Read More >>

Tales from Kentucky Doctors

Tales from Kentucky Doctors

Author: William Lynwood Montell
ISBN: 9780813168227
Format: Paperback
$52.67

In Tales from Kentucky Doctors, noted oral historian William Lynwood Montell has assembled a fascinating collection...  Read More >>

The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing: Sites, Objects, and Texts

The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing: Sites,...

Author: LindaMigl Keyser ,  Linda Migl Keyser
ISBN: 9781472449627
Format: Hardback
$294.00

The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing challenges and redefines the traditional distinction made between...  Read More >>

John Buridan, Quaestiones super octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis (secundum ultimam lecturam): Libri III - IV

John Buridan, Quaestiones super octo libros Physicorum...

Author: John Buridan ,  Edith Sylla
ISBN: 9789004131873
Format: Hardback
$501.60

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Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine

Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine

Author: James Sands Elliott
ISBN: 9781537124186
Format: Paperback
$26.37

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and...  Read More >>

Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity

Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over...

Author: Sean Hsiang-lin Lei
ISBN: 9780226379401
Format: Paperback
$47.95

"Neither Donkey nor Horse tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity...  Read More >>

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