History of medicine books

42348 books were found.

Notes on Nursing

Notes on Nursing

Author: Florence Nightingale
ISBN: 9781499150926
Format: Paperback
$18.45

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Medizin Und Krieg: Deutschland 1914 - 1924

Medizin Und Krieg: Deutschland 1914 - 1924

Author: Wolfgang U Eckart ,  Wolfgang U Eckart
ISBN: 9783506756770
Format: Hardback
$187.44

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Family That Couldn't Sleep, The: A Medical Mystery

Family That Couldn't Sleep, The: A Medical Mystery

Author: D T Max
ISBN: 9781299075436
Format: Electronic book text
$126.32

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Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis

Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and...

Author: Volker Scheid
ISBN: 9781282920262
Format: Electronic book text
$131.74

As a traditional healing art that has established a contemporary global presence, Chinese medicine defies categories...  Read More >>

Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900

Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and...

Author: Annmarie Adams
ISBN: 9781282853799
Format: Electronic book text
$501.60

Adams argues that the many significant changes seen in this period were due not to architects' efforts but to the...  Read More >>

Profile in Alternative Medicine: The Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, 1845-1942

Profile in Alternative Medicine: The Eclectic Medical...

Author: John S Haller Jr
ISBN: 9781306302838
Format: Electronic book text
$53.83

The Eclectic Medical Institute, known by its friends as Old EMI (and Old EMC when reorganized in 1910), was an American...  Read More >>

Performing Medicine: Medical Culture and Identity in Provincial England, C.1760–1850

Performing Medicine: Medical Culture and Identity in...

Author: Michael Brown ,  Rebecca Mortimer
ISBN: 9780719095573
Format: Paperback
$40.99

The book offers a fresh and distinctive account of the transformation of provincial English medicine from the late...  Read More >>

Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England

Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Anna Shepherd
ISBN: 9781848934313
Format: Hardback
$252.00

The nineteenth century brought an increased awareness of mental disorder, epitomized in the Asylum Acts of 1808...  Read More >>

Women, Gender and Disease in Eighteenth-Century England and France

Women, Gender and Disease in Eighteenth-Century England...

Author: Ann Kathleen Doig ,  Felicia B. Sturzer
ISBN: 9781443855518
Format: Hardback
$116.41

Based on encyclopedias, medical journals, historical, and literary sources, this collection of interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa

The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa...

Author: James L. A. Webb, Jr (Colby College, Maine)
ISBN: 9781107052574
Format: Hardback
$147.49

The first history of malaria control efforts in tropical Africa, contributing to the emerging sub-discipline of...  Read More >>

Science Has No Sex: The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D.

Science Has No Sex: The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D....

Author: Arleen Marcia Tuchman
ISBN: 9781469615172
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Science Has No Sex: The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D.  Read More >>

John P. McGovern, MD: A Lifetime of Stories

John P. McGovern, MD: A Lifetime of Stories

Author: Bryant Boutwell ,  Michael Bliss
ISBN: 9781623491222
Format: Hardback
$66.00

Captures the influential life of the visionary Texas physician John P. McGovern. In captivating narrative, interlaced...  Read More >>

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 ,  Henry Leyva
ISBN: 9781478901181
Format: Audio
$224.37

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

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 ,  Henry Leyva
ISBN: 9781478901211
Format: Audio
$118.80

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

The Physician as a Rebellious Intellectual: "The Book of the Two Pieces of Advice or ""Kitāb al-Naṣīḥatayn"" by  c Abd al-Laţīf ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī (1162-1231) - Introduction, Edition and Translation of the Medical Section"

The Physician as a Rebellious Intellectual: "The Book...

Author: N. Peter Joosse
ISBN: 9783631642856
Format: Paperback
$110.36

The medical section of the Kitāb al-Naṣīḥatayn or Book of the Two Pieces of Advice by the medieval author cAbd al-Laţīf...  Read More >>

A Practical Essay on the History and Treatment of Beriberi: With Observations on Some Forms of Rheumatism Prevailing in India

A Practical Essay on the History and Treatment of Beriberi:...

Author: J. G. Malcolmson
ISBN: 9781108068932
Format: Paperback
$93.12

Reissued here together are two medical works published in 1835 by John Grant Malcolmson (1803–44), a British surgeon...  Read More >>

Die Gefaeßchirurgie im Ersten Weltkrieg

Die Gefaeßchirurgie im Ersten Weltkrieg

Author: Irmtraud Sahmland ,  Sabine Eckhardt
ISBN: 9783631646465
Format: Hardback
$120.06

Die Studie befasst sich mit der Entwicklung der Gefäßchirurgie während des Ersten Weltkrieges. Die oft genannte...  Read More >>

The Origins of AIDS

The Origins of AIDS

Author: Jacques L Pepin (Sherbrooke University)
ISBN: 9781139128339
Format: Electronic book text
$514.80

This compelling new account looks back to the early twentieth-century origins and subsequent development of HIV/AIDS...  Read More >>

Death before Dying: History, Medicine, and Brain Death

Death before Dying: History, Medicine, and Brain Death...

Author: Gary Belkin (MD, PhD, MPH, MD, PhD, MPH, NYU School of Medicine, New York)
ISBN: 9780199898176
Format: Hardback
$209.00

Death before Dying: History, Medicine, and Brain Death brings fresh perspectives to the historical appearance of...  Read More >>

American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century

American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in...

Author: Laura D. Hirshbein
ISBN: 9780813564739
Format: Paperback
$102.83

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Sophia Jex-Blake: A Woman Pioneer in Nineteenth Century Medical Reform

Sophia Jex-Blake: A Woman Pioneer in Nineteenth Century...

Author: Shirley Roberts
ISBN: 9780415756068
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Vice in the Barracks: Medicine, the Military and the Making of Colonial India, 1780-1868

Vice in the Barracks: Medicine, the Military and the...

Author: E. Wald
ISBN: 9781137270986
Format: Hardback
$186.95

This book examines the colonial state's approach to venereal disease and 'vice'-driven health risks in the first...  Read More >>

The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France

The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France

Author: Michael A. Osborne
ISBN: 9780226114521
Format: Hardback
$95.95

Examines the turbulent history of the ideas, people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from...  Read More >>

Florence Nightingale at First Hand: Vision, Power, Legacy

Florence Nightingale at First Hand: Vision, Power, Legacy...

Author: Lynn McDonald
ISBN: 9781282875517
Format: Electronic book text
$131.74

Florence Nightingale is one of the most famous figures in modern history. Based on her writing, this book reports...  Read More >>

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