History of medicine books

42348 books were found.

Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie: Eighteenth-Century Midwives and their Patients

Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie: Eighteenth-Century Midwives...

Author: Robert Woods ,  Chris Galley
ISBN: 9781781381410
Format: Hardback
$219.94

A remarkable history of midwifery in the eighteenth century.  Read More >>

Healing Holidays: Itinerant Patients, Therapeutic Locales and the Quest for Health

Healing Holidays: Itinerant Patients, Therapeutic Locales...

Author: Harish Naraindas ,  Cristiana Bastos
ISBN: 9781138806658
Format: Hardback
$194.00

This volume on medical tourism includes contributions by anthropologists and historians on a variety of health-seeking...  Read More >>

Vaccines: A Biography

Vaccines: A Biography

Author: Andrew W. Artenstein
ISBN: 9781489983626
Format: Paperback
$739.17

Vaccines: A Biography seeks to fill a void in the extant literature by focusing on the history of vaccines and in...  Read More >>

Die Landesheil- und Pflegeanstalt Tiegenhof: "Die nationalsozialistische ""Euthanasie"" in Polen waehrend des Zweiten Weltkrieges"

Die Landesheil- und Pflegeanstalt Tiegenhof: "Die nationalsozialistische...

Author: Enno Schwanke
ISBN: 9783631652367
Format: Hardback
$76.85

Anhand von Zeugenaussagen und Strafermittlungsakten des Bundesarchivs Ludwigsburg beleuchtet das Werk die Geschehnisse...  Read More >>

Modern Colonization By Medical Intervention: U.s. Medicine In Puerto Rico: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 58

Modern Colonization By Medical Intervention: U.s. Medicine...

Author: Nicole Trujillo-Pagan
ISBN: 9781608464197
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Good intentioned or not, Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention documents the often pernicious effect of physicians...  Read More >>

Death and the American South

Death and the American South

Author: Craig Thompson Friend (North Carolina State University) ,  Lorri Glover (St Louis University, Missouri)
ISBN: 9781107084209
Format: Hardback
$155.22

Death and the American South is an edited collection of twelve never-before-published essays, featuring leading...  Read More >>

Al-Maqr Z S Traktat Uber Die Mineralien: Kit B Al-Maq Id Al-Saniyyah Li-Ma Rifat Al-A S M Al-Ma Diniyyah

Al-Maqr Z S Traktat Uber Die Mineralien: Kit B Al-Maq...

Author: Fabian Kas
ISBN: 9789004290273
Format: Electronic book text
$422.40

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On Race and Medicine: Insider Perspectives

On Race and Medicine: Insider Perspectives

Author: Richard M D Garcia
ISBN: 9781442248366
Format: Electronic book text
$171.57

Health disparities exist between races in America. These inequalities are cataloged in numerous studies, reports,...  Read More >>

Chinesische Psychosomatische Medizin

Chinesische Psychosomatische Medizin

Author: Lin Cong
ISBN: 9783662453292
Format: Electronic book text
$105.57

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Life Is Short, Art Long / Hayat Kisa, Sanat Uzun: The Art of Healing in Byzantium / Bizans'ta Sifa Sanati

Life Is Short, Art Long / Hayat Kisa, Sanat Uzun: The...

Author: Brigittepitarakis Pitarakis
ISBN: 9786054642427
Format: Paperback
$198.00

The famous aphorism of Hippocrates-- life is short, art long --stands at the heart of this exhibition, which examines...  Read More >>

Anatomist, the Barber-Surgeon, and the King

Anatomist, the Barber-Surgeon, and the King

Author: Seymour I Schwartz, M.D.
ISBN: 9781633880351
Format: Electronic book text
$39.57

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On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants: What Today's Clinicians Can Learn from Yesterday's Wisdom

On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants: What Today's...

Author: Robert B. Taylor
ISBN: 9781493913343
Format: Hardback
$145.17

"Medical history offers us many wise thoughts, a few misguided notions, and a host of intriguing back-stories. On...  Read More >>

Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior by Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.

Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implications...

Author: Stephen M. Edelson ,  Robert K. Naviaux
ISBN: 9781849057899
Format: Paperback
$52.99

With updates from some of the best-known names in the autism field, Bernard Rimland's seminal work on autism theory...  Read More >>

de Re Anatomica Libri XV: Anatomia

de Re Anatomica Libri XV: Anatomia

Author: Realdo Colombo ,  Gianluigi Baldo
ISBN: 9782251220024
Format: Paperback
$744.48

Qui offerto nella prima edizione moderna, governata da criteri filologici, il De re anatomica e senz'altro uno dei...  Read More >>

Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s

Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s...

Author: Jing Tsu ,  Benjamin A. Elman
ISBN: 9789004268418
Format: Paperback
$139.92

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science,...

Author: Hugh Richard Slotten (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, University of Otago, Dunedin)
ISBN: 9780199766666
Format: Hardback
$920.00

Science, medicine, and technology have become increasingly important to the average individual in modern society....  Read More >>

American Doctor: Aviation Medical Examiner (AME)

American Doctor: Aviation Medical Examiner (AME)

Author: Mary Michele McCarville
ISBN: 9781505626247
Format: Paperback
$26.40

John Edward McCarville, fondly called Jack is the second child of an Irish Catholic family of eight, growing up...  Read More >>

Health under Fire: Medical Care during America's Wars

Health under Fire: Medical Care during America's Wars...

Author: James R. Arnold
ISBN: 9781610697477
Format: Hardback
$150.00

This historical reference highlights the people, diseases, and innovations that have impacted the health of soldiers...  Read More >>

The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: Perspectives from the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas

The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: Perspectives...

Author: María-Isabel Porras-Gallo ,  Ryan A. Davis (Customer)
ISBN: 9781580464963
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Sheds new light on what the WHO described as ""the single most devastating infectious disease outbreak ever recorded,""...  Read More >>

Let Me Heal: The Opportunity to Preserve Excellence in American Medicine

Let Me Heal: The Opportunity to Preserve Excellence...

Author: Kenneth M. Ludmerer (Professor of Internal Medicine and Mabel Dorn Reeder Distinguished Professor in the History of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine)
ISBN: 9780199744541
Format: Hardback
$60.95

This insightful,engaging the history of US graduate medical education explores the social and moral value of physician...  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine

Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine

Author: Glenna R Schroeder-Lein
ISBN: 9781322879208
Format: Electronic book text
$417.12

The American Civil War is the most read about era in our history, and among its most compelling aspects is the story...  Read More >>

Antiquarianism, Language, and Medical Philology

Antiquarianism, Language, and Medical Philology

Author: Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies Benjamin A Elman (Princeton University)
ISBN: 9781322872872
Format: Electronic book text
$356.40

This volume rethinks the role of the Sino-Japanese medical classics during the early modern period in light of antiquarianism,...  Read More >>

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