History of medicine books

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Cancer on Trial: Oncology as a New Style of Practice

Cancer on Trial: Oncology as a New Style of Practice...

Author: Peter Keating ,  Alberto Cambrosio
ISBN: 9780226143040
Format: Paperback
$62.95

Helps you explore how practitioners established a new style of practice, at the center of which lies the cancer...  Read More >>

Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West

Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval...

Author: Timothy S. Miller ,  John W. Nesbitt
ISBN: 9780801451355
Format: Hardback
$90.56

Timothy Miller and John Nesbitt remind us that the history of leprosy in the West is incomplete without considering...  Read More >>

A Treatise of the Scurvy, in Three Parts: Containing an Inquiry into the Nature, Causes, and Cure, of that Disease

A Treatise of the Scurvy, in Three Parts: Containing...

Author: James Lind
ISBN: 9781108069984
Format: Paperback
$113.82

First published in 1753, this important treatise seeks to provide a thorough account of the nature, causes and treatment...  Read More >>

A Treatise on Diet: With a View to Establish, on Practical Grounds, a System of Rules, for the Prevention and Cure of the Diseases Incident to a Disordered State of the Digestive Functions

A Treatise on Diet: With a View to Establish, on Practical...

Author: John Ayrton Paris
ISBN: 9781108069892
Format: Paperback
$77.60

The physician and author John Ayrton Paris (1785–1856) published this work on the significance of diet to health...  Read More >>

Das Spital Im Florenz Der Renaissance: Heilung Fur Den Leib Und Fur Die Seele

Das Spital Im Florenz Der Renaissance: Heilung Fur Den...

Author: John Henderson ,  Gerhard Aumuller
ISBN: 9783515099431
Format: Hardback
$253.44

In der Renaissance sind die italienischen Hospitaler ein Meilenstein auf dem Weg zur Medikalisierung und zur Modernisierung...  Read More >>

On Rules Regarding the Practical Part of the Medical Art: A Parallel English-Arabic Edition and Translation

On Rules Regarding the Practical Part of the Medical...

Author: Moses Maimonides ,  Gerrit Bos
ISBN: 9780842528375
Format: Hardback
$234.96

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Yankee Yooper on the Keweenaw

Yankee Yooper on the Keweenaw

Author: Philip J Howard M D, Jr
ISBN: 9781493187881
Format: Hardback
$41.97

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

Kindly Medicine: Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836-1911

Kindly Medicine: Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836-1911...

Author: John S Haller Jr
ISBN: 9781306303248
Format: Electronic book text
$53.83

Between 1836 and 1911, thirteen physio-medical colleges opened, and then closed, their doors. These authentic American...  Read More >>

Women as Mothers in Pre-Industrial England

Women as Mothers in Pre-Industrial England

Author: Valerie Fildes
ISBN: 9780415752527
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Abortion in England 1900-1967

Abortion in England 1900-1967

Author: Barbara Brookes (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9780415752466
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The book, originally published in 1988, suggests that the inter-war years saw a crucial mapping of boundaries in...  Read More >>

Contagion

Contagion

Author: Alison Bashford ,  Claire Hooker
ISBN: 9780415758468
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth...  Read More >>

Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000

Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000...

Author: Waltraud Ernst
ISBN: 9780415758321
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa

Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid...

Author: Tiffany Fawn Jones (California State University, San Bernardino, USA)
ISBN: 9780415754484
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This book is an examination of South African mental institutions and policy from 1939-1994. It examines how racial,...  Read More >>

The Poetry of Raymond Carver: Against the Current

The Poetry of Raymond Carver: Against the Current

Author: Sandra Lee Kleppe
ISBN: 9781472411679
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Best known as one of the great short story writers of the twentieth century, Raymond Carver also published several...  Read More >>

Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany: "The ""Euthanasia Programs"""

Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany: "The ""Euthanasia...

Author: Susan Benedict ,  Linda Shields
ISBN: 9780415896658
Format: Hardback
$305.00

"Beginning in the late 1930s, the National Socialism government of Germany began a program of killing individuals...  Read More >>

Pioneers Of Medicine Without A Nobel Prize

Pioneers Of Medicine Without A Nobel Prize

Author: Gilbert R Thompson (Imperial College London, Uk)
ISBN: 9781783263844
Format: Paperback
$98.32

This book brings together in one volume fifteen discoveries that have had a major impact upon medical science and...  Read More >>

Pioneers Of Medicine Without A Nobel Prize

Pioneers Of Medicine Without A Nobel Prize

Author: Gilbert R Thompson (Imperial College London, Uk)
ISBN: 9781783263837
Format: Hardback
$274.28

This book brings together in one volume fifteen discoveries that have had a major impact upon medical science and...  Read More >>

Virus Diseases and Viruses

Virus Diseases and Viruses

Author: Patrick P. Laidlaw
ISBN: 9781107659568
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Originally published in 1938, this volume contains the text of the Rede Lecture for that year, delivered by Sir...  Read More >>

Recent Advances in Medical Science: A Study of their Social and Economic Implications

Recent Advances in Medical Science: A Study of their...

Author: Edward Mellanby
ISBN: 9781107637078
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Originally published in 1939, this volume contains the text of the Rede Lecture for that year, delivered by Sir...  Read More >>

Authority in Medicine: Old and New: The Linacre Lecture 1943

Authority in Medicine: Old and New: The Linacre Lecture...

Author: Major Greenwood
ISBN: 9781107664982
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Originally published in 1943, this book presents the content of the Linacre Lecture for that year, which was delivered...  Read More >>

Authority, Observation and Experiment in Medicine: The Linacre Lecture 1940

Authority, Observation and Experiment in Medicine: The...

Author: W. W. C Topley
ISBN: 9781107668713
Format: Paperback
$25.85

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The Aims and Methods of Medical Science: An Inaugural Lecture

The Aims and Methods of Medical Science: An Inaugural...

Author: John A. Ryle
ISBN: 9781107656116
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Originally published in 1935, this book presents the content of John A. Ryle's inaugural lecture upon taking up...  Read More >>

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