History of medicine books

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Elixir: The American Tragedy of a Deadly Drug

Elixir: The American Tragedy of a Deadly Drug

Author: Barbara J Martin
ISBN: 9780615898179
Format: Paperback
$47.39

At the height of the Great Depression, the mysterious deaths of children in Oklahoma sparked an unprecedented investigation...  Read More >>

La Matiere Brute Et La Matiere Vivant, Etude Sur L'Origine de La Vie Et de La Mort

La Matiere Brute Et La Matiere Vivant, Etude Sur L'Origine...

Author: Joseph Delboeuf
ISBN: 9782366700473
Format: Paperback
$71.28

Dans ce livre, le savant Joseph Delboeuf reflechit avec une grande originalite sur l'origine de la vie et de la...  Read More >>

The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics: Volume 2, Part 2

The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics: Volume...

Author: Jonathan Pereira
ISBN: 9781108068451
Format: Paperback
$160.40

Jonathan Pereira (1804–53) died before completing a further revision of his rigorous encyclopaedia of medicinal...  Read More >>

The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics: Volume 1

The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics: Volume...

Author: Jonathan Pereira
ISBN: 9781108068444
Format: Paperback
$170.75

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The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe: A Cultural History

The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe: A Cultural History...

Author: Patricia Simons (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
ISBN: 9781107656871
Format: Paperback
$80.19

This compelling cultural history draws on visual, material and textual evidence to investigate the characterization...  Read More >>

A Practical Treatise on the Bath Waters, Tending to Illustrate their Beneficial Effects in Chronic Diseases: Containing, Likewise, a Brief Account of the City of Bath, and of the Hot Springs

A Practical Treatise on the Bath Waters, Tending to...

Author: Joseph Hume Spry
ISBN: 9781108066372
Format: Paperback
$93.12

Bath physician Joseph Hume Spry (c.1779–1859) was concerned that the popular practice of 'taking the waters' had...  Read More >>

Domestic Medicine: Or, The Family Physician

Domestic Medicine: Or, The Family Physician

Author: William Buchan
ISBN: 9781108066259
Format: Paperback
$126.76

Taking the view that medicine is as much the art of avoiding ill health as it is the cure of disease, physician...  Read More >>

Ruttonjee Sanatorium Life and Times

Ruttonjee Sanatorium Life and Times

Author: Michael Humphries, QC ,  Dr Michael Humphries
ISBN: 9781495342578
Format: Paperback
$52.77

This monograph concerns the history of the Ruttonjee Sanatorium, a hospital in Hong Kong originally built in 1843...  Read More >>

Medical Empiricism and Philosophy of Human Nature in the 17th and 18th Century

Medical Empiricism and Philosophy of Human Nature in...

Author: Claire Crignon ,  Carsten Zelle
ISBN: 9789004268128
Format: Hardback
$366.96

Empiricism has many different faces. As the contributions to this volume demonstrate, in the 17th and 18th century...  Read More >>

Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s

Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s...

Author: Jing Tsu ,  Benjamin A. Elman
ISBN: 9789004258532
Format: Hardback
$459.36

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History of Psychopharmacology

History of Psychopharmacology

Author: Francisco Lopez-Munoz ,  Cecilio Alamo (University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain)
ISBN: 9780916182304
Format: Paperback
$278.80

In recent years, with the introduction of new molecules into the arsenal of psychiatric therapy, the historical...  Read More >>

History of Psychopharmacology

History of Psychopharmacology

Author: Francisco Lopez-Munoz ,  Cecilio Alamo (University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain)
ISBN: 9780916182298
Format: Hardback
$310.50

In recent years, with the introduction of new molecules into the arsenal of psychiatric therapy, the historical...  Read More >>

The Story Within: Personal Essays on Genetics and Identity

The Story Within: Personal Essays on Genetics and Identity...

Author: Amy Boesky (Associate Professor, Boston College)
ISBN: 9781421410968
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Shares experiences of living with genetic disorders. This title includes stories that illustrate the complexities...  Read More >>

The PKU Paradox: A Short History of a Genetic Disease

The PKU Paradox: A Short History of a Genetic Disease...

Author: Diane B. Paul (Harvard University) ,  Jeffrey P. Brosco (Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine)
ISBN: 9781421411316
Format: Paperback
$64.99

The questions it raises touch on ongoing controversies about newborn screening and what happens to blood samples...  Read More >>

The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1870-1970

The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary...

Author: Dr Rhodri Hayward (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781780937267
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Conflicting models of selfhood have become central to debates over modern medicine. Yet we still lack a clear historical...  Read More >>

The Teaching Hospital: Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Evolution of Academic Medicine

The Teaching Hospital: Brigham and Women's Hospital...

Author: Peter Tishler ,  Christine Wenc
ISBN: 9780071784016
Format: Hardback
$71.95

Tells the story of Brigham and Women's Hospital Founded in 1913, the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital was the first medical...  Read More >>

A Late Middle English Remedy-book (MS Wellcome 542, ff. 1r-20v): A Scholarly Edition

A Late Middle English Remedy-book (MS Wellcome 542,...

Author: Santiago Gonzalez y Fernandez-Corugedo ,  Antonio Miranda Garcia
ISBN: 9783034313698
Format: Paperback
$140.37

Offers the diplomatic transcription of MS Wellcome 542, housing a late Middle English hitherto unedited remedy-book...  Read More >>

Cured: How the Berlin Patients Defeated HIV and Forever Changed Medical Science

Cured: How the Berlin Patients Defeated HIV and Forever...

Author: Nathalia Holt ,  Karen Saltus
ISBN: 9798200623723
Format: Audio
$92.35

Award-winning research scientist and HIV fellow at the Ragon Institute, Nathalia Holt, reveals the science behind...  Read More >>

Revisiting the Tumultuous Yellow Fever Investigations in the First Three Decades of the Twentieth Century

Revisiting the Tumultuous Yellow Fever Investigations...

Author: Goro Kuno
ISBN: 9781937650292
Format: Paperback
$19.41

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Beyond the Call of Duty: Army Flight Nursing in World War II

Beyond the Call of Duty: Army Flight Nursing in World...

Author: Judith Barger
ISBN: 9781306303750
Format: Electronic book text
$47.49

At the height of World War II, five hundred Army flight nurses served with the Army Air Forces as members of thirty-one...  Read More >>

The description and use of Nairne's patent electrical machine

The description and use of Nairne's patent electrical...

Author: Edward Nairne
ISBN: 9785518939868
Format: Paperback
$77.50

The description and use of Nairne's patent electrical machine. With the addition of some philosophical experiments...  Read More >>

An essay on the most effectual means of preserving the health of seamen

An essay on the most effectual means of preserving the...

Author: James Lind
ISBN: 9785518939820
Format: Paperback
$90.43

An essay on the most effectual means of preserving the health of seamen, in the Royal Navy. Containing directions...  Read More >>

Sketches of facts and opinions respecting the venereal disease

Sketches of facts and opinions respecting the venereal...

Author: William Houlston
ISBN: 9785518974098
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Sketches of facts and opinions respecting the venereal disease. This book, Sketches of facts and opinions respecting...  Read More >>

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