History of medicine books

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The Complicity of Friends: How George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, and John Hughlings-Jackson Encoded Herbert Spencer’s Secret

The Complicity of Friends: How George Eliot, G. H. Lewes,...

Author: Martin Raitiere
ISBN: 9781611485974
Format: Paperback
$158.00

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Childhood Obesity in America: Biography of an Epidemic

Childhood Obesity in America: Biography of an Epidemic...

Author: Laura Dawes
ISBN: 9780674281448
Format: Hardback
$99.95

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Yankee Yooper on the Keweenaw

Yankee Yooper on the Keweenaw

Author: Philip J Howard M D, Jr
ISBN: 9781493187898
Format: Paperback
$47.39

"Michigan's Upper Peninsula is one of America's hidden treasures-overlooked and ignored as a place to visit compared...  Read More >>

Judische Arztinnen Und Arzte Im Nationalsozialismus: Entrechtung, Vertreibung, Ermordung

Judische Arztinnen Und Arzte Im Nationalsozialismus:...

Author: Thomas Beddies ,  Susanne Doetz
ISBN: 9783110306064
Format: Mixed media product
$554.40

Besides targeting Jewish jurists, from 1933 onward anti-Semitic movement in Germany particulary persecuted Jewish...  Read More >>

Medizin, Gesellschaft Und Geschichte 32 (2014): Pflegegeschichte

Medizin, Gesellschaft Und Geschichte 32 (2014): Pflegegeschichte...

Author: Robert Jutte
ISBN: 9783515107693
Format: Paperback
$179.52

"Das Jahrbuch des IGM beinhaltet als Themenschwerpunkt Pflegegeschichte. S. Wildman zeigt am Beispiel Englands im...  Read More >>

Permanent Present Tense: The man with no memory, and what he taught the world

Permanent Present Tense: The man with no memory, and...

Author: Dr Suzanne Corkin
ISBN: 9780141044316
Format: Paperback
$27.99

When he was twenty-seven, Henry Molaison underwent surgery for his epilepsy. He awoke with part of his brain destroyed,...  Read More >>

'Greek' and 'Roman' in Latin Medical Texts: Studies in Cultural Change and Exchange in Ancient Medicine

'Greek' and 'Roman' in Latin Medical Texts: Studies...

Author: Brigitte Maire
ISBN: 9789004242784
Format: Hardback
$596.64

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Smoking Kills: The Revolutionary Life of Richard Doll

Smoking Kills: The Revolutionary Life of Richard Doll...

Author: Conrad Keating
ISBN: 9781909930049
Format: Paperback
$38.79

The authorised biography of the doctor who made the link between smoking & lung cancer and battled Big Tobacco  Read More >>

The Sick Rose: Or; Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration

The Sick Rose: Or; Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration...

Author: Richard Barnett
ISBN: 9780500517345
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Presents a visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography. This volume combines detailed illustrations...  Read More >>

Textualizing Illness: Medicine and Culture in New England 1620-1730

Textualizing Illness: Medicine and Culture in New England...

Author: Marc Priewe
ISBN: 9783825363628
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Textualizing Illness investigates how colonial New England writings represented and contributed to the meaning-endowment...  Read More >>

Picturing Women's Health

Picturing Women's Health

Author: Ji Won Chung ,  Kate Scarth
ISBN: 9781848934245
Format: Hardback
$252.00

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Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China

Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in...

Author: Ruth Rogaski
ISBN: 9780520283824
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, this title reveals how hygiene...  Read More >>

History of Toxicology and Environmental Health: Toxicology in Antiquity Volume I

History of Toxicology and Environmental Health: Toxicology...

Author: Philip Wexler (Retired, National Library of Medicine (NLM), Bethesda, MD, USA) ,  Philip Wexler (Retired, National Library of Medicine (NLM), Bethesda, MD, USA)
ISBN: 9780128000458
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Toxicology in Antiquity is the first in a series of short format works covering key accomplishments, scientists,...  Read More >>

History of Ambulance Company Number 139 (WWI Centenary Series)

History of Ambulance Company Number 139 (WWI Centenary...

Author: Various
ISBN: 9781473313873
Format: Paperback
$38.79

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The Backwash of War - The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse (WWI Centenary Series)

The Backwash of War - The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield...

Author: Ellen Newbold Lamotte
ISBN: 9781473313897
Format: Paperback
$33.61

"""After this war, there will be many other wars, and in the intervals there will be peace. So it will alternate...  Read More >>

Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not

Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not

Author: Florence Nightingale
ISBN: 9781500258795
Format: Paperback
$18.45

In this work, Florence Nightingale set out her principle of care for the sick and the injured. The author combined...  Read More >>

Migraine: Diagnosis, Treatment and Understanding C.1960-2010

Migraine: Diagnosis, Treatment and Understanding C.1960-2010...

Author: C Overy ,  E M Tansey (Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine University College London)
ISBN: 9780902238947
Format: Paperback
$15.53

There are around eight million migraine sufferers in the UK today. This Witness Seminar looked at the last 50 years...  Read More >>

Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America

Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk, and...

Author: Kara W. Swanson
ISBN: 9780674281431
Format: Hardback
$76.95

Each year Americans supply blood, sperm, and breast milk to “banks” that store these products for use by strangers...  Read More >>

Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction

Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction

Author: Gary B. Ferngren (Professor of History, Oregon State University and Professor of the History of Medicine, I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University)
ISBN: 9781421412160
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""-JAMA""An important book, for students of Christian theology who understand health and healing to be topics of...  Read More >>

Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction

Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction

Author: Gary B. Ferngren (Professor of History, Oregon State University and Professor of the History of Medicine, I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University)
ISBN: 9781421412153
Format: Hardback
$120.00

""-JAMA""An important book, for students of Christian theology who understand health and healing to be topics of...  Read More >>

Wounds in the Middle Ages

Wounds in the Middle Ages

Author: Anne Kirkham ,  Cordelia Warr
ISBN: 9781409465690
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book focuses on the representation, perception and treatment of wounds in the Middle Ages. Contributors situate...  Read More >>

Good Tuberculosis Men : The Army Medical Department's Struggle with Tuberculosis: The Army Medical Department's Struggle with Tuberculosis

Good Tuberculosis Men : The Army Medical Department's...

Author: Carol R Byerly ,  Borden Institute
ISBN: 9780160921988
Format: Hardback
$129.36

In 1917, as the United States prepared for war in Europe, Army Surgeon General William C. Gorgas recognized the...  Read More >>

An Epidemiological Odyssey: The Evolution of Communicable Disease Control

An Epidemiological Odyssey: The Evolution of Communicable...

Author: George Pollock
ISBN: 9789401783286
Format: Paperback
$232.85

Epidemiology has come a long way since diseases were thought to be caused by 'pestilential vapours'. This fascinating...  Read More >>

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