History of medicine books

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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical...

Author: Bill Wasik ,  Monica Murphy
ISBN: 9780143123576
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The most fatal virus known to science, rabies - a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans - kills nearly...  Read More >>

Destigmatising Mental Illness?: Professional Politics and Public Education in Britain, 1870–1970

Destigmatising Mental Illness?: Professional Politics...

Author: Vicky Long ,  Julie Anderson
ISBN: 9780719085819
Format: Hardback
$183.99

Examines mental healthcare workers' efforts to educate the public between 1870 and 1970  Read More >>

Reforming Food in Post-Famine Ireland: Medicine, Science and Improvement, 1845–1922

Reforming Food in Post-Famine Ireland: Medicine, Science...

Author: Ian Miller ,  Bethan Hirst
ISBN: 9780719088865
Format: Hardback
$183.99

The first dedicated study of how and why Irish consumption and production customs dramatically transformed after...  Read More >>

Simon Baruch: Rebel in the Ranks of Medicine, 1840-1921

Simon Baruch: Rebel in the Ranks of Medicine, 1840-1921...

Author: Patricia Spain Ward
ISBN: 9780817357955
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Recounts the remarkable life of a Prussian/Polish Jew who immigrated to the United States as a teenager in the 1850s...  Read More >>

Infiziertes Europa: Seuchen Im Langen 20. Jahrhundert

Infiziertes Europa: Seuchen Im Langen 20. Jahrhundert...

Author: Malte Thießen
ISBN: 9783110364347
Format: Hardback
$322.05

On cover: Mit Beitrèagen von Malte Thiessen, Jèorg Vèogele, Malte Kèonig, Matthias Braun, Thomas Seller, Ulrike...  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: 9781421413549
Format: Hardback
$64.99

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

A History of Epidemics in Britain: Volume 1, From AD 664 to the Extinction of Plague

A History of Epidemics in Britain: Volume 1, From AD...

Author: Charles Creighton
ISBN: 9781107621930
Format: Paperback
$98.30

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A History of Epidemics in Britain: Volume 2, From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time

A History of Epidemics in Britain: Volume 2, From the...

Author: Charles Creighton
ISBN: 9781107621954
Format: Paperback
$100.89

In this second volume of his history of epidemics in Britain, controversial physician Charles Creighton continues...  Read More >>

Post-Mortem Methods

Post-Mortem Methods

Author: J. Martin Beattie
ISBN: 9781107418004
Format: Paperback
$98.30

Originally published in 1915, this book provides a step-by-step guide to a post-mortem examination. Beattie also...  Read More >>

Creating the Health Care Team of the Future: The Toronto Model for Interprofessional Education and Practice

Creating the Health Care Team of the Future: The Toronto...

Author: Sioban Nelson (Research Fellow, School of Postgraduate Nursing, University of Melbourne, Australia) ,  Maria Tassone
ISBN: 9780801470837
Format: Book
$211.07

This books shows how medical schools and teaching hospitals can implement the University of Toronto's successful...  Read More >>

Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500–1800

Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500–1800

Author: Sara Scalenghe (Loyola University Maryland)
ISBN: 9781107044791
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This book is the first on the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa....  Read More >>

The Inheritor's Powder: A Cautionary Tale of Poison, Betrayal and Greed

The Inheritor's Powder: A Cautionary Tale of Poison,...

Author: Sandra Hempel
ISBN: 9781780222226
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Family rivalry, a bungled murder and the fascinating history of poisoning. THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER meets Victorian...  Read More >>

The Respiratory Function of the Blood, Part 2, Haemoglobin

The Respiratory Function of the Blood, Part 2, Haemoglobin...

Author: Joseph Barcroft
ISBN: 9781107415881
Format: Paperback
$64.66

First published in 1925, this two-volume work deals with the blood's role in respiration. This second volume deals...  Read More >>

Cerebro-Spinal Fever

Cerebro-Spinal Fever

Author: Michael Foster ,  J. F. Gaskell
ISBN: 9781107415799
Format: Paperback
$67.25

In 1915, an outbreak of meningitis affected the Eastern Command in the British Army. Foster and Gaskell, both Captains...  Read More >>

The Respiratory Function of the Blood, Part 1, Lessons from High Altitudes

The Respiratory Function of the Blood, Part 1, Lessons...

Author: Joseph Barcroft
ISBN: 9781107415843
Format: Paperback
$64.66

First published in 1925, this two-volume work deals with the blood's role in respiration. This first volume analyses...  Read More >>

An Historiall Expostulation against the Beastlye Abusers, Both of Chyrurgerie and Physyke, in oure Tyme: With a Goodlye Doctrine and Instruction, Necessarye to Be Marked and Followed, of All True Chirurgiens

An Historiall Expostulation against the Beastlye Abusers,...

Author: John Hall ,  T. J. Pettigrew
ISBN: 9781108074537
Format: Paperback
$51.72

The surgeon John Hall, born 1529/30, published this work in 1565 as an appendix to his translation of a thirteenth-century...  Read More >>

On Superstitions Connected with the History and Practice of Medicine and Surgery

On Superstitions Connected with the History and Practice...

Author: Thomas Joseph Pettigrew
ISBN: 9781108074520
Format: Paperback
$59.49

The surgeon Thomas Pettigrew (1791–1865) was interested in all aspects of antiquity, and gained fame in London society...  Read More >>

Medical Ethics: Or, a Code of Institutes and Precepts, Adapted to the Professional Conduct of Physicians and Surgeons

Medical Ethics: Or, a Code of Institutes and Precepts,...

Author: Thomas Percival
ISBN: 9781108067225
Format: Paperback
$67.25

The physician and medical reformer Thomas Percival (1740–1804) saw the need for a code to guide doctor-patient relations....  Read More >>

Victor McKusick and the History of Medical Genetics

Victor McKusick and the History of Medical Genetics...

Author: Krishna R. Dronamraju ,  Clair A. Francomano
ISBN: 9781489987709
Format: Paperback
$448.77

Besides professional distinction, they are being selected because of their past association with Dr. McKusick, as...  Read More >>

Human Subjects Research after the Holocaust

Human Subjects Research after the Holocaust

Author: Sheldon Rubenfeld ,  Susan Benedict
ISBN: 9783319057019
Format: Hardback
$232.85

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Hospitals of London

Hospitals of London

Author: Veronika & Fred Chambers ,  Rob Higgins
ISBN: 9781445638096
Format: Paperback
$41.37

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Joseph Jones, M.D.: Scientist of the Old South

Joseph Jones, M.D.: Scientist of the Old South

Author: James O. Breeden
ISBN: 9780813151427
Format: Paperback
$66.00

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Pseudo-Science and Society in 19th-Century America

Pseudo-Science and Society in 19th-Century America

Author: Arthur Wrobel
ISBN: 9780813155449
Format: Paperback
$66.00

This important exploration of the major nineteenth-century pseudo-sciences provides fresh perspectives on the American...  Read More >>

We Lived for the Body: Natural Medicine and Public Health in Imperial Germany

We Lived for the Body: Natural Medicine and Public Health...

Author: Avi Sharma
ISBN: 9780875807041
Format: Paperback
$80.21

During Kaiser Wilhelm II's reign, nature gained a role of central importance to the German national experience....  Read More >>

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