History of medicine books

Histoire de la medecine arabe; expose complet des traductions du grec, les sciences en Orient, leur transmission...  Read More >>

A physician and spokesman for the French Ideologues, Pierre-JeanGeorges Cabanis (1757-1808) stands at the crossroads...  Read More >>

This history of the medical profession in pre-Revolutionary Russia examines an influential segment of the educated...  Read More >>

Katharine Park has written a social, intellectual, and institutional history of medicine in Florence during the...  Read More >>

In analyzing the factors that have improved health and enhanced longevity during the last three centuries, Thomas...  Read More >>

Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826) is best known for his invention of the stethoscope, one of medicine's...  Read More >>

This new paperback edition makes available John Harley Warner's highly influential, revisionary history of nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Lester S. King, M.D., focuses on those aspects of medicine that remain constant through the centuries--the problems...  Read More >>

Henri F. Ellenberger, the Swiss medical historian, is best remembered today as the author of The Discovery of the...  Read More >>

Ancient Mesopotamia vies with ancient Egypt for having produced the worlds earliest recorded medical texts. With...  Read More >>

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Drawing on the expertise of historical, literary and philosophical scholarship, practicing physicians, and the medical...  Read More >>

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1860 Edition.  Read More >>

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1904 Edition.  Read More >>

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1899 Edition.  Read More >>

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This volume examines important aspects of China's century-long search to provide appropriate and effective health...  Read More >>

You ask about the Red Lamp. It is the usual sign of the general practitioner in England. . . .  Read More >>

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A wide-ranging introduction that reveals the fusion of East and West, science and quackery, in the roots of modern...  Read More >>

Europeans in early colonial Bengal fell prey to new diseases that their limited pharmacopeia, based on an imperfect...  Read More >>

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Facing Eugenics is a social history of sexual sterilization operations in twentieth-century Canada.  Read More >>

This volume which initially appeared in the <i>Lancet</i>, represents a final attempt to lay or exorcise the persistent...  Read More >>

This collection examines psychiatric medicine in China across the early modern and modern periods. Essays focus...  Read More >>