History of medicine books

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Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times

Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times

Author: John Stewart Milne
ISBN: 9781354359655
Format: Hardback
$71.15

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

A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics. in Answer to a Pamphlet of Philalethes Cantabrigiensis, Intituled, Geometry No Friend to Infidelity, or a Defence of Sir Isaac Newton, and the British Mathematicisn

A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics. in Answer...

Author: George Berkeley ,  Jacob Tonson
ISBN: 9781354279878
Format: Hardback
$57.95

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

The Midwife

The Midwife

Author: Susan Cohen
ISBN: 9780747815075
Format: Paperback
$16.99

Looks at the role of the midwife in Britain from ancient times up to the present, paying particular attention to...  Read More >>

Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective

Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective

Author: Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University, UK) ,  Aaron Gillette (University of Houston-Downtown, USA)
ISBN: 9781474282758
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Latin eugenics was a scientific, cultural and political programme designed to biologically empower modern European...  Read More >>

Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species

Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and...

Author: Neel Ahuja
ISBN: 9780822360483
Format: Hardback
$271.79

In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja shows how twentieth-century U.S. imperial expansion was dependent on controlling the...  Read More >>

Psychiatry in Modern Britain

Psychiatry in Modern Britain

Author: Rhodri Hayward (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781441171474
Format: Hardback
$110.00

The discipline of psychiatry is foundational to understanding a wide range of modern concepts, from personality...  Read More >>

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek: Master of the Minuscule

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek: Master of the Minuscule

Author: Lesley Robertson ,  Jantien Backer
ISBN: 9789004304284
Format: Hardback
$385.44

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Beyond the Unconscious: Essays of Henri F. Ellenberger in the History of Psychiatry

Beyond the Unconscious: Essays of Henri F. Ellenberger...

Author: Mark S. Micale
ISBN: 9780691633206
Format: Hardback
$340.00

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Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence

Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence

Author: Katharine Park
ISBN: 9780691639574
Format: Hardback
$245.00

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American Health Quackery: Collected Essays of James Harvey Young

American Health Quackery: Collected Essays of James...

Author: James Harvey Young
ISBN: 9780691630304
Format: Hardback
$190.00

James Harvey Young, the foremost expert on the history of medical frauds, finds quackery in the 1990s to be more...  Read More >>

The Role of Medicine: Dream, Mirage, or Nemesis?

The Role of Medicine: Dream, Mirage, or Nemesis?

Author: Thomas McKeown
ISBN: 9780691643663
Format: Hardback
$185.00

In analyzing the factors that have improved health and enhanced longevity during the last three centuries, Thomas...  Read More >>

In the Eye's Mind: Vision and the Helmholtz-Hering Controversy

In the Eye's Mind: Vision and the Helmholtz-Hering Controversy...

Author: R. Steven Turner
ISBN: 9780691632216
Format: Hardback
$280.00

One of the most persistent controversies of modern science has dealt with human visual perception. It erupted in...  Read More >>

To See with a Better Eye: A Life of R. T. H. Laennec

To See with a Better Eye: A Life of R. T. H. Laennec...

Author: Jacalyn Duffin
ISBN: 9780691635644
Format: Hardback
$370.00

Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826) is best known for his invention of the stethoscope, one of medicine's...  Read More >>

Cabanis: Enlightenment and Medical Philosophy in the French Revolution

Cabanis: Enlightenment and Medical Philosophy in the...

Author: Martin S. Staum
ISBN: 9780691643144
Format: Hardback
$280.00

A physician and spokesman for the French Ideologues, Pierre-JeanGeorges Cabanis (1757-1808) stands at the crossroads...  Read More >>

Russian Physicians in an Era of Reform and Revolution, 1856-1905

Russian Physicians in an Era of Reform and Revolution,...

Author: Nancy M. Frieden
ISBN: 9780691642321
Format: Hardback
$245.00

This history of the medical profession in pre-Revolutionary Russia examines an influential segment of the educated...  Read More >>

Medical Thinking: A Historical Preface

Medical Thinking: A Historical Preface

Author: Lester Snow King
ISBN: 9780691640525
Format: Hardback
$280.00

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Weill Cornell Medicine: A History of Cornell's Medical School

Weill Cornell Medicine: A History of Cornell's Medical...

Author: Antonio M. Gotto, Jr. ,  Jennifer Moon
ISBN: 9781501702136
Format: Hardback
$75.01

In this insightful and nuanced book, dean emeritus Antonio M. Gotto Jr., MD, and Jennifer Moon situate the history...  Read More >>

The Gene: An Intimate History

The Gene: An Intimate History

Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
ISBN: 9781410490087
Format: Hardback
$92.37

Spanning the globe and several centuries, this is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes...  Read More >>

The Gene: An Intimate History

The Gene: An Intimate History

Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
ISBN: 9781476733500
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Spanning the globe and several centuries, this is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes...  Read More >>

Medieval Medicine: Its Mysteries and Science

Medieval Medicine: Its Mysteries and Science

Author: Toni Mount
ISBN: 9781445655420
Format: Paperback
$28.44

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An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing

An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing

Author: Robert Dingwall ,  Anne Marie Rafferty
ISBN: 9781138140110
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Combining the skills of a social historian, a sociologist and a graduate nurse, this book traces the history of...  Read More >>

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