History of medicine books

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Catching Cancer: The Quest for Its Viral and Bacterial Causes

Catching Cancer: The Quest for Its Viral and Bacterial...

Author: Claudia Cornwall
ISBN: 9781442215214
Format: Paperback
$73.99

The idea that you can “catch” cancer is radical, and yet several renowned scientists have shown that it is possible...  Read More >>

Melancholia: The Western Malady

Melancholia: The Western Malady

Author: Matthew Bell (King's College London)
ISBN: 9781107069961
Format: Hardback
$160.43

A unique explanation of melancholia, charting its fascinating history and demonstrating how it flourished because...  Read More >>

The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon: Toward a Political History of Madness

The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon: Toward a Political...

Author: Laure Murat ,  Deke Dusinberre
ISBN: 9780226025735
Format: Hardback
$79.95

The Man who thought he was Napoleon is built around a bizarre historical event and an off-hand challenge. The event?...  Read More >>

The Man Who Invented Gender: Engaging the Ideas of John Money

The Man Who Invented Gender: Engaging the Ideas of John...

Author: Terry Goldie
ISBN: 9780774827935
Format: Paperback
$72.42

This book offers, for the first time, a balanced and probing textual analysis of John Money’s writing, to assess...  Read More >>

Localizing the Moral Sense: Neuroscience and the Search for the Cerebral Seat of Morality, 1800-1930

Localizing the Moral Sense: Neuroscience and the Search...

Author: Jan Verplaetse
ISBN: 9789400791268
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This unique book presents an overview of believers and disbelievers in a cerebral seat of human morality. With depth...  Read More >>

A Chinese Physician: Wang Ji and the Stone Mountain Medical Case Histories

A Chinese Physician: Wang Ji and the Stone Mountain...

Author: Joanna Grant
ISBN: 9780415863094
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This book brings to life the very human experiences, frustrations and aspirations of a well respected 16th centutry...  Read More >>

A History of the Oral Surgery Club of Great Britain

A History of the Oral Surgery Club of Great Britain...

Author: John Bradley (Strategic Sollutions)
ISBN: 9781501021220
Format: Paperback
$49.98

John Bradley describes the conception of the Oral Surgery Club of Great Britain as the first professional society...  Read More >>

Gene Theme Scene

Gene Theme Scene

Author: Clarisse Clemons Ferrara MD
ISBN: 9781502794864
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Gene Theme Scene is a synopsis of the Emperor of Maladies, (a biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD published...  Read More >>

Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity

Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over...

Author: Sean Hsiang-lin Lei ,  Xianglin Lei
ISBN: 9780226169880
Format: Hardback
$163.95

Tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth...  Read More >>

Cold War, Deadly Fevers: Malaria Eradication in Mexico, 1955–1975

Cold War, Deadly Fevers: Malaria Eradication in Mexico,...

Author: Marcos Cueto
ISBN: 9781421415567
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South

Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum...

Author: Marli F. Weiner ,  Mayzie Hough
ISBN: 9780252080531
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Integrates the history of medicine with social and intellectual history in this study of how race and sex complicated...  Read More >>

The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe

The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe...

Author: Jon Arrizabalaga ,  John Henderson
ISBN: 9780300213171
Format: Paperback
$57.95

"One hundred and fifty years after the Black Death killed a third of the population of Western Europe, a new plague...  Read More >>

Savage Will: The Daring Escape of Americans Trapped Behind Nazi Lines

Savage Will: The Daring Escape of Americans Trapped...

Author: Timothy M. Gay
ISBN: 9780451419149
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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Pandora's DNA: Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes Through History, Science, and One Family Tree

Pandora's DNA: Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes Through...

Author: Lizzie Stark
ISBN: 9781613748602
Format: Hardback
$71.15

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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of...

Author: Sam Kean
ISBN: 9781410471567
Format: Hardback
$84.45

Published in 2014 by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. --Title...  Read More >>

Canon of Medicine Vol. 3 Special Pathologies

Canon of Medicine Vol. 3 Special Pathologies

Author: Avicenna ,  Laleh Bakhtiar
ISBN: 9781567442151
Format: Hardback
$660.00

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Canon of Medicine 5 Volume Set

Canon of Medicine 5 Volume Set

Author: Avicenna ,  Seyyed Hossein Nasr, PH.D. (George Washington University)
ISBN: 9781567442243
Format: Hardback
$3075.60

Translated for the first time into English here, the Latin was translated in the 12th century and into Hebrew in...  Read More >>

Canon of Medicine Vol. 4 Systemic Diseases, Orthopedics and Cosmetics

Canon of Medicine Vol. 4 Systemic Diseases, Orthopedics...

Author: Avicenna ,  Avicenna
ISBN: 9781567448344
Format: Hardback
$620.40

Volume 4, translated for the first time in English, contains seven parts. Part 22: On Dysfunctions in Various Parts...  Read More >>

Canon of Medicine Vol. 5 Pharmacopia and Index of the 5 Volumes

Canon of Medicine Vol. 5 Pharmacopia and Index of the...

Author: Avicenna ,  Laleh Bakhtiar
ISBN: 9781567448580
Format: Hardback
$660.00

Volume 5 lists more than 800 pharmacologically tested simple and complex drugs, including plant and mineral substances,...  Read More >>

Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine, and Modernity in WWI Germany

Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine, and Modernity...

Author: Heather Perry ,  Heather R. Perry
ISBN: 9780719089244
Format: Hardback
$183.99

"Examines the ""medical organisation"" of Imperial Germany for total war"  Read More >>

Asylum Doctor: James Woods Babcock and the Red Plague of Pellagra

Asylum Doctor: James Woods Babcock and the Red Plague...

Author: Charles S. Bryan
ISBN: 9781611174908
Format: Hardback
$97.65

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The Living Tree: Traditional Medicine and Public Health in China and India

The Living Tree: Traditional Medicine and Public Health...

Author: Sachin Chaturvedi ,  Miltos Ladikas
ISBN: 9789332700833
Format: Hardback
$134.55

Examines the role of intellectual property rights in access to drugs, and the scope for using traditional medicine...  Read More >>

Medical Essays, 1842-1882

Medical Essays, 1842-1882

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
ISBN: 9781502412508
Format: Paperback
$71.25

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times

Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times

Author: John Stewart Milne
ISBN: 9781502470041
Format: Paperback
$18.45

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and...  Read More >>

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