History of medicine books

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The Book Of Medicines

The Book Of Medicines

Author: E.A. Wallis Budge
ISBN: 9781138964907
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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Deafness, Community and Culture in Britain: Leisure and Cohesion, 1945-95

Deafness, Community and Culture in Britain: Leisure...

Author: Martin Atherton ,  Julie Anderson
ISBN: 9780719099786
Format: Paperback
$40.99

A case study of deaf people's leisure in England within a wider British context and gives insights into a misunderstood,...  Read More >>

A Body of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine

A Body of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine...

Author: Dr Corinna Wagner (University of Exeter, UK) ,  Dr Andy Brown (University of Exeter, UK)
ISBN: 9781472513298
Format: Paperback
$74.99

Includes poems by writers from the dawn of Enlightenment to the 21st Century and explores changing attitudes to...  Read More >>

A Body of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine

A Body of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine...

Author: Dr Corinna Wagner (University of Exeter, UK) ,  Dr Andy Brown (University of Exeter, UK)
ISBN: 9781472511812
Format: Hardback
$300.00

Includes poems by writers from the dawn of Enlightenment to the 21st Century and explores changing attitudes to...  Read More >>

The Story of Nursing in British Mental Hospitals: Echoes from the Corridors

The Story of Nursing in British Mental Hospitals: Echoes...

Author: Niall McCrae (King's College London, UK) ,  Peter Nolan
ISBN: 9780415738958
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The only book to explore the role of nurses in mental hospitals, this work moves from the early nineteenth century...  Read More >>

The Uses of Humans in Experiment: Perspectives from the 17th to the 20th Century

The Uses of Humans in Experiment: Perspectives from...

Author: Erika Dyck ,  Larry Stewart
ISBN: 9789004286702
Format: Hardback
$425.04

Ethics in human experimentation has a long history and The Uses of Humans in Experiment draws on examples from the...  Read More >>

Ferdinand Sauerbruch – Meisterchirurg im politischen Sturm: Eine kompakte Biographie für Ärzte und Patienten

Ferdinand Sauerbruch – Meisterchirurg im politischen...

Author: Wolfgang U. Eckart
ISBN: 9783658125462
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Insbesondere die überweite Strecken von seinem Ghostwriter konstruierte, teilweise erfundene‚Autobiographie’ „Das...  Read More >>

Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375–1550: Body Parts, Sicknesses, Instruments, and Medicinal Preparations

Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375–1550:...

Author: Juhani Norri
ISBN: 9781472478405
Format: Hardback
$546.00

Medical texts written in English during the late Middle Ages have in recent years attracted increasing attention...  Read More >>

The philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton

The philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton

Author: Francesco Algarotti
ISBN: 9783741104268
Format: Paperback
$67.02

The philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1765. Hansebooks...  Read More >>

The Germ of an Idea: Contagionism, Religion, and Society in Britain, 1660-1730

The Germ of an Idea: Contagionism, Religion, and Society...

Author: Margaret DeLacy
ISBN: 9781349575589
Format: Paperback
$139.00

Contagionism is an old idea, but gained new life in Restoration Britain. The Germ of an Idea considers British...  Read More >>

Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800

Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern...

Author: L. Whaley
ISBN: 9781349328697
Format: Paperback
$199.00

Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies...  Read More >>

'Curing Queers': Mental Nurses and Their Patients, 1935–74

'Curing Queers': Mental Nurses and Their Patients, 1935–74...

Author: Tommy Dickinson ,  Christine Hallett
ISBN: 9781784993580
Format: Paperback
$33.99

Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral...  Read More >>

Freethinkers of Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Rawandi, Abu Bakr al-Razi, and Their Impact on Islamic Thought

Freethinkers of Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Rawandi, Abu...

Author: Sarah Stroumsa
ISBN: 9789004315471
Format: Paperback
$190.08

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Evolution of a Missouri Asylum: Fulton State Hospital, 1851-2006

Evolution of a Missouri Asylum: Fulton State Hospital,...

Author: Richard Lael ,  Barbara Brazos
ISBN: 9780826220745
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Fulton State Hospital was not only Missouri s first state mental asylum but also the first such institution west...  Read More >>

The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its Costs

The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its Costs

Author: Stewart Justman
ISBN: 9781349576777
Format: Paperback
$44.99

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Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War

Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War

Author: Lecturer in Political Science Lukasz Kamienski (Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora Jagiellonian University Poland) ,  Ukasz Kamieanski
ISBN: 9780190263478
Format: Hardback
$108.21

Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War examines how intoxicants have been put to the service of states, empires...  Read More >>

Maine Nursing: Interviews and History on Caring and Competence

Maine Nursing: Interviews and History on Caring and...

Author: Juliana L'Heureux ,  Ann Sossong
ISBN: 9781540203410
Format: Hardback
$84.45

Maine nurses have served tirelessly as caregivers and partners in healing at home and abroad, from hospitals to...  Read More >>

Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

Author: Richard Hollingham (Author) ,  Michael Mosley
ISBN: 9781785940248
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Accompanying a BBC series, Blood and Guts is an incredible story of stolen corpses, medical fraud, lobotomized patients...  Read More >>

Sane or Insane?: Or, How I Regained Liberty

Sane or Insane?: Or, How I Regained Liberty

Author: Margaret Starr
ISBN: 9781530313679
Format: Paperback
$14.98

Publishing pseudonymously in 1904, Margaret Starr describes how she was incarcerated for fifteen months at Mt....  Read More >>

Nurse Writers of the Great War

Nurse Writers of the Great War

Author: Christine Hallett ,  Christine Hallett
ISBN: 9781784992521
Format: Hardback
$183.99

Examines the experiences of First World War nurses through their own writings, offering fresh insights into the...  Read More >>

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