History of medicine books

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Medicine and Public Health in Latin America: A History

Medicine and Public Health in Latin America: A History...

Author: Marcos Cueto (Fundação 'Oswaldo Cruz', Rio de Janeiro) ,  Steven Palmer (University of Windsor, Ontario)
ISBN: 9781107023673
Format: Hardback
$194.06

This book serves as a concise and synthetic history of medicine and health in Latin America from 1492 to the present,...  Read More >>

Protagonists of Medicine

Protagonists of Medicine

Author: Domenico Ribatti
ISBN: 9789400790841
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book features papers on immunology and pathology and vascular biology and angiogenesis. It highlights scientific...  Read More >>

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 1: Chinese Historical Illness Terminology

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 1: Chinese...

Author: Zhibin Zhang ,  Paul U. Unschuld
ISBN: 9780520283954
Format: Hardback
$248.95

The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen...  Read More >>

Storia della Dermatologia e della Venereologia in Italia

Storia della Dermatologia e della Venereologia in Italia...

Author: Carlo Gelmetti
ISBN: 9788847057166
Format: Hardback
$263.97

Questo libro potrebbe intitolarsi: “Storia dell’importanza dell’aspetto e della sessualità in Italia” tanto questi...  Read More >>

Salmonella Infections, Networks of Knowledge, and Public Health in Britain, 1880-1975

Salmonella Infections, Networks of Knowledge, and Public...

Author: Anne Hardy (Honorary Professor, Honorary Professor, Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
ISBN: 9780198704973
Format: Hardback
$219.00

The first scholarly history of food poisoning, telling of the discovery of food poisoning as a public health problem...  Read More >>

Healthcare in the Bahamas

Healthcare in the Bahamas

Author: Harold Munnings
ISBN: 9789768231468
Format: Paperback
$79.20

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The 'Hippocratic' Corpus: Content and Context

The 'Hippocratic' Corpus: Content and Context

Author: Elizabeth Craik
ISBN: 9781138021716
Format: Paperback
$101.00

The Hippocratic Corpus comprises some sixty medical works of varying length, style and content. Collectively, this...  Read More >>

The 'Hippocratic' Corpus: Content and Context

The 'Hippocratic' Corpus: Content and Context

Author: Elizabeth Craik
ISBN: 9781138021693
Format: Hardback
$273.00

The Hippocratic Corpus comprises some sixty medical works of varying length, style and content. Collectively, this...  Read More >>

Healthcare in Private and Public from the Early Modern Period to 2000

Healthcare in Private and Public from the Early Modern...

Author: Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415727006
Format: Hardback
$284.00

A key volume on a central aspect of the history of medicine and its social relations, The History of Healthcare...  Read More >>

A History of the Brain: From Stone Age surgery to modern neuroscience

A History of the Brain: From Stone Age surgery to modern...

Author: Andrew P. Wickens (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
ISBN: 9781848723641
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book describes how we have come to understand the brain throughout the ages, from prehistory and antiquity,...  Read More >>

An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World

An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History...

Author: Roy J. Shephard
ISBN: 9783319116709
Format: Hardback
$517.47

This book examines the health/fitness interaction in an historical context. Beginning in primitive hunter-gatherer...  Read More >>

Border Medicine: A Transcultural History of Mexican American Curanderismo

Border Medicine: A Transcultural History of Mexican...

Author: Brett Hendrickson
ISBN: 9781479846320
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Mexican American folk and religious healing, often referred to as curanderismo, has been a vital part of life in...  Read More >>

Biographical Memoirs of Medicine in Great Britain: From the Revival of Literature to the Time of Harvey

Biographical Memoirs of Medicine in Great Britain: From...

Author: John Aikin
ISBN: 9781108075947
Format: Paperback
$77.60

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Border Medicine: A Transcultural History of Mexican American Curanderismo

Border Medicine: A Transcultural History of Mexican...

Author: Brett Hendrickson
ISBN: 9781479834785
Format: Hardback
$171.00

Mexican American folk and religious healing, often referred to as curanderismo, has been a vital part of life in...  Read More >>

From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency: Historical Perspectives on People with Learning Disabilities

From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency: Historical Perspectives...

Author: Anne Digby ,  David Wright
ISBN: 9781138878266
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914

Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914

Author: Bill Forsythe ,  Joseph Melling
ISBN: 9781138868243
Format: Paperback
$92.99

A valuable guide to current work in the social and cultural history of insanity. It provides a comprehensive summary...  Read More >>

Migrants, Minorities & Health: Historical and Contemporary Studies

Migrants, Minorities & Health: Historical and Contemporary...

Author: Lara Marks ,  Michael Worboys
ISBN: 9781138868182
Format: Paperback
$114.00

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Midwives, Society and Childbirth: Debates and Controversies in the Modern Period

Midwives, Society and Childbirth: Debates and Controversies...

Author: Hilary Marland ,  Anne Marie Rafferty
ISBN: 9781138868212
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Questioning many conventional historical assumptions, this text seeks to provide a better understanding of the effect...  Read More >>

Oral History, Health and Welfare

Oral History, Health and Welfare

Author: Joanna Bornat ,  Robert Perks
ISBN: 9781138868250
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book discusses the significance of oral history to the development of health and welfare provisions. By focusing...  Read More >>

Complaints, Controversies and Grievances in Medicine: Historical and Social Science Perspectives

Complaints, Controversies and Grievances in Medicine:...

Author: Jonathan Reinarz (University of Birmingham, UK) ,  Rebecca Wynter (University of Birmingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781138794900
Format: Hardback
$315.00

As expressions of dissatisfaction, disquiet and failings in service provision, past complaining is a vital antidote...  Read More >>

The End of the Golden age of General Surgery. 1870-2000. The Training and Practice of a General Surgeon in the late Twentieth Century

The End of the Golden age of General Surgery. 1870-2000....

Author: Nigel Keith Maybury
ISBN: 9781499531374
Format: Paperback
$39.47

After more than a century, the Golden Age of General Surgery met its demise. The final decades of the twentieth...  Read More >>

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