History of medicine books

42348 books were found.

Black Doctors of Colonial Lima

Black Doctors of Colonial Lima

Author:
ISBN: 9781306718585
Format: Electronic book text
$264.00

The untold story of Lima's black physicians and their role in shaping the practice of medicine in Peru.  Read More >>

The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960

The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960

Author: Bridie Andrews
ISBN: 9781306568623
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

Medical care in nineteenth-century China was spectacularly pluralistic: herbalists, shamans, bone-setters, midwives,...  Read More >>

Common Lot, The: Sickness, Medical Occupations and the Urban Poor in Early Modern England

Common Lot, The: Sickness, Medical Occupations and the...

Author: Reader in Social History of Medicine Margaret Pelling (Oxford University)
ISBN: 9781306870689
Format: Electronic book text
$546.35

This important collection of Margaret Pelling's essays brings together her key studies of health, medicine and poverty...  Read More >>

Living Translation

Living Translation

Author: Sonya Pritzker
ISBN: 9781306877909
Format: Electronic book text
$300.96

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Plato's Rivalry with Medicine: A Struggle and Its Dissolution

Plato's Rivalry with Medicine: A Struggle and Its Dissolution...

Author: Professor of Philosophy Susan B Levin (Smith College)
ISBN: 9781306900690
Format: Electronic book text
$237.47

While scholars typically view Plato's engagement with medicine as uniform and largely positive, Susan B. Levin argues...  Read More >>

Marketplace of the Marvelous

Marketplace of the Marvelous

Author: Ms Erika Janik
ISBN: 9781306908962
Format: Electronic book text
$76.43

An entertaining introduction to the quacks, snake-oil salesmen, and charlatans, who often had a point Despite rampant...  Read More >>

Man Who Invented Gender

Man Who Invented Gender

Author: Professor Department of English Terry Goldie (York University)
ISBN: 9781306924856
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

This book offers, for the first time, a balanced and probing textual analysis of John Money's writing, to assess...  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: 9781306976749
Format: Electronic book text
$509.52

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Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America, 1820-1885

Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Practice, Knowledge,...

Author: Professor John Harley Warner
ISBN: 9781306983952
Format: Electronic book text
$203.15

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

Against the Spirit of System: The French Impulse in Nineteenth-Century American Medicine

Against the Spirit of System: The French Impulse in...

Author: Professor John Harley Warner
ISBN: 9781306983976
Format: Electronic book text
$249.48

In this wide-ranging exploration of American medical culture, John Harley Warner offers the first in-depth study...  Read More >>

In the Eye's Mind: Vision and the Helmholtz-Hering Controversy

In the Eye's Mind: Vision and the Helmholtz-Hering Controversy...

Author: R S Turner
ISBN: 9781306984782
Format: Electronic book text
$213.84

One of the most persistent controversies of modern science has dealt with human visual perception. It erupted in...  Read More >>

Rhubarb: The Wondrous Drug

Rhubarb: The Wondrous Drug

Author: Clifford M Foust
ISBN: 9781306985772
Format: Electronic book text
$213.84

An Asian plant with mysterious cathartic powers, medicinal rhubarb spurred European trade expeditions and obsessive...  Read More >>

Medical Thinking: A Historical Preface

Medical Thinking: A Historical Preface

Author: Lester Snow King
ISBN: 9781306990882
Format: Electronic book text
$178.20

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

Role of Medicine: Dream, Mirage, or Nemesis?

Role of Medicine: Dream, Mirage, or Nemesis?

Author: Thomas McKeown (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781306991810
Format: Electronic book text
$147.84

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

Neither Donkey Nor Horse

Neither Donkey Nor Horse

Author: Sean Hsiang-Lin Lei
ISBN: 9781322047133
Format: Electronic book text
$118.80

Neither Donkey nor Horse tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity...  Read More >>

Pandora's DNA

Pandora's DNA

Author: Lizzie Stark
ISBN: 9781322096742
Format: Electronic book text
$58.05

Would you cut out your healthy breasts and ovaries if you thought it might save your life? That's not a theoretical...  Read More >>

Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective

Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective

Author: Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University, UK) ,  Aaron Gillette
ISBN: 9781322115269
Format: Electronic book text
$889.68

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Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust

Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust

Author: Michael A M D
ISBN: 9781322152608
Format: Electronic book text
$348.48

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Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States

Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United...

Author: Sarah B Rodriguez
ISBN: 9781322198774
Format: Electronic book text
$224.40

An engaging and surprising history of surgeries on the clitoris, revealing what the therapeutic use of female circumcision...  Read More >>

Complaints, Controversies and Grievances in Medicine

Complaints, Controversies and Grievances in Medicine...

Author: Jonathan Reinarz (University of Birmingham, UK) ,  Rebecca Wynter (University of Birmingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781322506265
Format: Electronic book text
$409.20

Recent studies into the experiences and failures of health care services, along with the rapid development of patient...  Read More >>

Looking Inside the Brain

Looking Inside the Brain

Author: Denis Le Bihan ,  Teresa Lavender Fagan
ISBN: 9781322245270
Format: Electronic book text
$99.00

It is now possible to witness human brain activity while we are talking, reading, or thinking, thanks to revolutionary...  Read More >>

Medical Monopoly

Medical Monopoly

Author: Joseph M Gabriel
ISBN: 9781322335049
Format: Electronic book text
$118.80

During much of the nineteenth century, physicians and pharmacists alike considered medical patenting and the use...  Read More >>

History of Medicine

History of Medicine

Author: Mark Jackson (San Jose State University)
ISBN: 9781322373430
Format: Electronic book text
$39.57

In a world burdened by chronic conditions and mutating viruses, with a health service strained to its limits, the...  Read More >>

Works of William Harvey

Works of William Harvey

Author: William Harvey ,  Arthur C Guyton (Professor Emeritus, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS)
ISBN: 9781322514079
Format: Electronic book text
$105.47

William Harvey's revolutionary book on the circulatory system, published in Latin in 1628, demonstrated for the...  Read More >>

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