History of medicine books

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Work, Psychiatry and Society, c. 1750–2015

Work, Psychiatry and Society, c. 1750–2015

Author: Waltraud Ernst ,  Rebecca Mortimer
ISBN: 9780719097690
Format: Hardback
$195.00

Breaks new ground in the history of psychiatry by focusing on the role of work in mental-health institutions.  Read More >>

Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence

Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's...

Author: Guenter B Risse
ISBN: 9780252081385
Format: Paperback
$64.99

From the late nineteenth century until the 1920s, authorities required San Francisco's Pesthouse to segregate the...  Read More >>

Poxed and Scurvied: The Story of Sickness and Health at Sea

Poxed and Scurvied: The Story of Sickness and Health...

Author: Kevin Brown
ISBN: 9781591148098
Format: Hardback
$92.27

When European sailors began to explore the world, keeping crews healthy on long voyages became an acute problem....  Read More >>

The Indian System of Human Marks

The Indian System of Human Marks

Author: Kenneth G. Zysk
ISBN: 9789004299726
Format: Hardback
$902.88

In The Indian System of Human Marks, Zysk offers a literary history of the Indian system of knowledge which details...  Read More >>

A Treatise on the Nature of Aliments, or Foods, in General

A Treatise on the Nature of Aliments, or Foods, in General...

Author: Friedrich Hoffmann
ISBN: 9781354055045
Format: Hardback
$52.67

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

Statical Essays: Containing Vegetable Statics

Statical Essays: Containing Vegetable Statics

Author: Stephen Hales
ISBN: 9781353984803
Format: Hardback
$79.07

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

An Account of Some Experiments and Observations on Tar-Water: Wherein Is Shown the Quantity of Tar That Is Therein. and Also a Method Proposed, Both to Abate That Quantity Considerably, and to Ascertain the Strength of the Tar-Water. Which Was Read

An Account of Some Experiments and Observations on Tar-Water:...

Author: Stephen Hales
ISBN: 9781354054970
Format: Hardback
$52.67

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

Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives

Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving...

Author: Vinayak K. Prasad (Assistant Professor of Medicine, National Cancer Institute and National Institutes of Health) ,  Adam S. Cifu (Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9781421417721
Format: Hardback
$54.99

They outline a comprehensive plan to reform medical education, research funding and protocols, and the process for...  Read More >>

In a Different Key: The Story of Autism

In a Different Key: The Story of Autism

Author: John Donvan ,  Caren Zucker
ISBN: 9780553397437
Format: Audio
$158.40

Features the story of women like Ruth Sullivan, who rebelled against a medical establishment that blamed refrigerator...  Read More >>

Medicine in Iran: Profession, Practice and Politics, 1800-1925

Medicine in Iran: Profession, Practice and Politics,...

Author: H. Ebrahimnejad ,  H Ebrahimnejad
ISBN: 9781349343805
Format: Paperback
$181.95

"This book traces how medicine in modern Iran was both theoretically and institutionally transformed in the 19th...  Read More >>

Antiquarianism, Language, and Medical Philology: From Early Modern to Modern Sino-Japanese Medical Discourses

Antiquarianism, Language, and Medical Philology: From...

Author: Benjamin Elman
ISBN: 9789004314597
Format: Paperback
$126.72

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Celestial Lancets: A History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxa

Celestial Lancets: A History and Rationale of Acupuncture...

Author: Gwei-Djen Lu ,  Joseph Needham
ISBN: 9781138137165
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This study of two ancient therapeutic techniques of Chinese medicine gives a full account of both methods in the...  Read More >>

Epidemics, Empire, and Environments: Cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818–1910

Epidemics, Empire, and Environments: Cholera in Madras...

Author: Michael Zeheter
ISBN: 9780822944461
Format: Hardback
$145.20

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Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence

Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's...

Author: Guenter B Risse
ISBN: 9780252039843
Format: Hardback
$271.00

From the late nineteenth century until the 1920s, authorities required San Francisco's Pesthouse to segregate the...  Read More >>

Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine

Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine

Author: James Elliott
ISBN: 9781523724987
Format: Paperback
$17.13

Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine is a classic medical history volume by James Sands Elliott. I was stimulated...  Read More >>

Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy

Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy

Author: Peter Distelzweig ,  Benjamin Goldberg
ISBN: 9789401773522
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This volume presents an innovative look at early modern medicine and natural philosophy as historically interrelated...  Read More >>

African American Doctors of World War I: The Lives of 104 Volunteers

African American Doctors of World War I: The Lives of...

Author: W. Douglas Fisher ,  Joann H. Buckley
ISBN: 9781476663159
Format: Paperback
$59.40

A century ago, 104 African American doctors joined the US Army to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions,...  Read More >>

Foundations of the Neuron Doctrine: 25th Anniversary Edition

Foundations of the Neuron Doctrine: 25th Anniversary...

Author: Gordon M. Shepherd (MD, DPhil, MD, DPhil, Yale University)
ISBN: 9780190259389
Format: Hardback
$159.95

The neuron doctrine, first formulated in 1891, states that the brain is constructed of individual neurons, organized...  Read More >>

Leprosy and Charity in Medieval Rouen

Leprosy and Charity in Medieval Rouen

Author: Elma Brenner
ISBN: 9780861933396
Format: Hardback
$290.40

An investigation into the effects of leprosy in one of the major towns in medieval France, illuminating urban, religious...  Read More >>

Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine

Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution...

Author: Ira M. Rutkow
ISBN: 9780811716727
Format: Paperback
$46.99

This landmark history charts the practice and progress of American medicine during the Civil War and retells the...  Read More >>

Early Recollections and Life of James Still

Early Recollections and Life of James Still

Author: James Still ,  Samuel C Still
ISBN: 9780988873162
Format: Paperback
$28.33

James Still was perhaps the most gifted physician in South Jersey during the nineteenth century. He was also African...  Read More >>

An Inquiry Into the Origin and Antiquity of the Lues Venerea

An Inquiry Into the Origin and Antiquity of the Lues...

Author: William Turnbull
ISBN: 9781348256403
Format: Hardback
$60.59

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

An Essay on the Most Effectual Means of Preserving the Health of Seamen, in the Royal Navy: Containing Directions Proper for All Those Who Undertake Long Voyages at Sea

An Essay on the Most Effectual Means of Preserving the...

Author: James Lind
ISBN: 9781348269212
Format: Hardback
$60.59

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

A Treatise on the Gonorrhoea: To Which Is Added, a Critical Enquiry Into the Different Methods of Administering Mercury

A Treatise on the Gonorrhoea: To Which Is Added, a Critical...

Author: Peter Clare
ISBN: 9781348261223
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 >>

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