History of medicine books

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Mental Health Nursing: The Working Lives of Paid Carers in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Mental Health Nursing: The Working Lives of Paid Carers...

Author: Anne Borsay ,  Pamela Dale
ISBN: 9780719096938
Format: Hardback
$195.00

Seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care....  Read More >>

Palliative Care: The 400-Year Quest for a Good Death

Palliative Care: The 400-Year Quest for a Good Death...

Author: Harold Y. Vanderpool
ISBN: 9780786497997
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895-1940: The Forgotten History

Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895-1940: The Forgotten History...

Author: A. Greenwood ,  H. Topiwala
ISBN: 9781137440525
Format: Hardback
$174.95

This ground-breaking book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya during the...  Read More >>

Thomas Bartholin. The Anatomy House in Copenhagen

Thomas Bartholin. The Anatomy House in Copenhagen

Author: Niels W. Bruun ,  Peter Fisher
ISBN: 9788763542593
Format: Hardback
$108.65

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Working in a World of Hurt: Trauma and Resilience in the Narratives of Medical Personnel in Warzones

Working in a World of Hurt: Trauma and Resilience in...

Author: Carol Acton ,  Jane Potter
ISBN: 9780719090363
Format: Hardback
$183.99

Focuses on doctors and nurses in wartime casualty clearing stations, hospitals and prison camps  Read More >>

Pathfinders in International Psychology

Pathfinders in International Psychology

Author: Grant J. Rich ,  Uwe P. Gielen
ISBN: 9781681231440
Format: Hardback
$263.31

Provides a global overview of pioneers in international psychology, with contributions from distinguished authors...  Read More >>

The Pox of Liberty: How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection

The Pox of Liberty: How the Constitution Left Americans...

Author: Werner Troesken
ISBN: 9780226922171
Format: Hardback
$70.95

Looking at the history of the United States with a focus on three diseases - smallpox, typhoid fever, and yellow...  Read More >>

Towards a Sociology of Cancer Caregiving: Time to Feel

Towards a Sociology of Cancer Caregiving: Time to Feel...

Author: Rebecca E. Olson
ISBN: 9781472446596
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Once a synonym for death, cancer is now a prognosis of multiple probabilities and produces a world of uncertainty...  Read More >>

The History of Medicine

The History of Medicine

Author: Roger Cooter ,  Claudia Stein
ISBN: 9781138017184
Format: Mixed media product
$567.00

The history of medicine has been a robust field of academic inquiry and popular discussion since the 1970s. The...  Read More >>

Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice

Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice

Author: Markham J. Geller (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781119025528
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice...  Read More >>

Influenza and Public Health: Learning from Past Pandemics

Influenza and Public Health: Learning from Past Pandemics...

Author: Tamara Giles-Vernick ,  Susan Craddock
ISBN: 9781138867017
Format: Paperback
$92.99

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Transplant: From Myth to Reality

Transplant: From Myth to Reality

Author: Nicholas L. Tilney
ISBN: 9780300218107
Format: Paperback
$74.95

In this volume, Dr Nicholas Tilney, a well-known expert in the fields of clinical transplantation and transplantation...  Read More >>

The Sceptical Chymist: Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes

The Sceptical Chymist: Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes...

Author: Robert Boyle
ISBN: 9781515089544
Format: Paperback
$23.63

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A Garden of Medicinal Plants

A Garden of Medicinal Plants

Author: Henry Oakeley ,  Jane Knowles
ISBN: 9781408706244
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The second book in the 500 Reflections on the RCP series, focusing on the gardens of the Royal College  Read More >>

Foundations of Theory for Ancient Chinese Medicine: Shang Han Lun and Contemporary Medical Texts

Foundations of Theory for Ancient Chinese Medicine:...

Author: Guohui Liu ,  Charles Buck
ISBN: 9780857012111
Format: Electronic book text
$171.60

Guohui Liu explains the key concepts of ancient Chinese medicine so that they can be better understood and put into...  Read More >>

The British Dentist

The British Dentist

Author: Rachel Bairsto
ISBN: 9780747811350
Format: Paperback
$16.99

Looks at this whole grisly history as well as at the increasing professionalism seen from the late nineteenth century...  Read More >>

Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Médecins Sans Frontières

Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible...

Author: Renée C. Fox (Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781421416922
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Enriched by vivid photographs of MSF operations and by ironic, self-critical cartoons drawn by a member of the Communications...  Read More >>

Medicine and Colonial Identity

Medicine and Colonial Identity

Author: Bridie Andrews ,  Mary P. Sutphen
ISBN: 9781138867932
Format: Paperback
$62.99

This volume shows how the study of medicine can provide new insights into colonial identity, and the possibility...  Read More >>

Fifty Years in Public Health (Routledge Revivals): A Personal Narrative with Comments

Fifty Years in Public Health (Routledge Revivals): A...

Author: Sir Arthur Newsholme
ISBN: 9781138906457
Format: Hardback
$389.00

First published in 1935, this book provides a valuable contribution to the history of Public Health and Preventive...  Read More >>

A Cree Healer and His Medicine Bundle: Revelations of Indigenous Wisdom--Healing Plants, Practices, and Stories

A Cree Healer and His Medicine Bundle: Revelations of...

Author: David Young ,  Robert Rogers
ISBN: 9781583949030
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""Details the life and healing practices of medicine man Russell Willier, with extensive photographs and materials...  Read More >>

A Practical Treatise on Smallpox

A Practical Treatise on Smallpox

Author: George Henry Fox
ISBN: 9781514879757
Format: Paperback
$15.81

A practical treatise on smallpox (1902). This book, A practical treatise on smallpox, by George Henry Fox, is...  Read More >>

Madness: A History

Madness: A History

Author: Petteri Pietikäinen (University of Oulu, Finland)
ISBN: 9780415713160
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Madness: A History is a thorough and accessible account of madness from antiquity to modern times, offering a large-scale...  Read More >>

The Nuclear Health Service

The Nuclear Health Service

Author: George E Scott
ISBN: 9781785073465
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Cold War Britain did not just involve spies and military confrontation. Dr George Scott tantalisingly unwraps another...  Read More >>

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