History of medicine books

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The Influence of Climate in the Prevention and Cure of Chronic Diseases

The Influence of Climate in the Prevention and Cure...

Author: James Clark
ISBN: 9781108062312
Format: Paperback
$80.19

Providing information on a topic which had previously been little researched, this thorough work of 1829 includes...  Read More >>

Studies in the History of Ophthalmology in England: Prior to the Year 1800

Studies in the History of Ophthalmology in England:...

Author: R. Rutson James
ISBN: 9781107625495
Format: Paperback
$69.84

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Galien, Oeuvres: Tome V: Sur Les Facultes Des Aliments

Galien, Oeuvres: Tome V: Sur Les Facultes Des Aliments...

Author: John Wilkins ,  John Wilkins
ISBN: 9782251005843
Format: Paperback
$139.92

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Colonial Medical Care in North India: Gender, State, and Society, c. 1830-1920

Colonial Medical Care in North India: Gender, State,...

Author: Samiksha Sehrawat (, Lecturer in the History of Medicine and South Asia, Newcastle University, UK)
ISBN: 9780198096603
Format: Hardback
$69.84

This book shows how medical care was introduced, expanded, and funded by the colonial state in north India. It engages...  Read More >>

Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England

Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England...

Author: S. Read
ISBN: 9781137355027
Format: Hardback
$219.00

In early modern English medicine, the balance of fluids in the body was seen as key to health. Menstruation was...  Read More >>

An Account of the Nature and Medicinal Virtues of the Principal Mineral Waters of Great Britain and Ireland: And Those Most in Repute on the Continent

An Account of the Nature and Medicinal Virtues of the...

Author: John Elliot
ISBN: 9781139583589
Format: Undefined
$224.40

The natural philosopher John Elliot (1747–87) published several significant scientific works in the 1780s. This...  Read More >>

The History of Medicine

The History of Medicine

Author: C.G. Cumston
ISBN: 9780415869676
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This work provides a landmark in early twentieth century publishing summarizing the most up-to-date findings in...  Read More >>

Medicine and the Reformation

Medicine and the Reformation

Author: Andrew Cunningham ,  Ole Peter Grell
ISBN: 9780415869553
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Charts how both popular and official religion affected orthodox medicine and popular healers, and illustrates the...  Read More >>

Observing the World through Images: Diagrams and Figures in the Early-Modern Arts and Sciences

Observing the World through Images: Diagrams and Figures...

Author: Christoph Luthy ,  Nicholas Jardine
ISBN: 9789004263840
Format: Hardback
$435.60

Through well-illustrated essays, Observing the World through Images explores the making and uses of printed diagrams...  Read More >>

Bergen-belsen 1945: A Medical Student's Journal

Bergen-belsen 1945: A Medical Student's Journal

Author: David Bowen Hargrave (-) ,  Michael John Hargrave
ISBN: 9781783262885
Format: Paperback
$44.88

Foreword by Suzanne Bardgett, Imperial War Museum.  Read More >>

A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics: Death, Panic and Hysteria, 1830-1920

A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics: Death, Panic...

Author: Mark Honigsbaum (Queen Mary University of London)
ISBN: 9781780764788
Format: Hardback
$245.81

A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics is a vital new contribution towards our understanding of European history...  Read More >>

Bergen-belsen 1945: A Medical Student's Journal

Bergen-belsen 1945: A Medical Student's Journal

Author: David Bowen Hargrave (-) ,  Michael John Hargrave
ISBN: 9781783263202
Format: Hardback
$90.56

Foreword by Suzanne Bardgett, Imperial War Museum.  Read More >>

36 Steps on the Road to Medicare: How Saskatchewan Led the Way

36 Steps on the Road to Medicare: How Saskatchewan Led...

Author: C. Stuart Houston ,  Merle Massie
ISBN: 9780773542860
Format: Paperback
$46.55

The history of universal hospitalization and its gradual development into medicare.  Read More >>

The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease

The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious...

Author: John Rhodes
ISBN: 9781137278524
Format: Hardback
$50.05

Spanning three centuries, The End of Plagues weaves together the discovery of vaccination, the birth and growth...  Read More >>

A Treatise on the Yellow Fever, as It Appeared in the Island of Dominica, in the Years 1793–4–5–6: To Which Are Added, Observations on the Bilious Remittent Fever, on Intermittents, Dysentery, and Some Other West India Diseases

A Treatise on the Yellow Fever, as It Appeared in the...

Author: James Clark
ISBN: 9781108065542
Format: Paperback
$59.49

James Clark (c.1737–1819) was a British physician who practised medicine on the Caribbean island of Dominica for...  Read More >>

Great Artists and Great Anatomists: A Biographical and Philosophical Study

Great Artists and Great Anatomists: A Biographical and...

Author: Robert Knox
ISBN: 9781108065283
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This 1852 work by anatomist Robert Knox (1791–1862) discusses the lives of French naturalists Georges Cuvier and...  Read More >>

Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry

Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization,...

Author: Matthew M. Heaton
ISBN: 9780821420706
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Black Skin, White Coats is a history of psychiatry in Nigeria from the 1950s to the 1980s.  Read More >>

A critical guide to the exhibition of the Royal academy

A critical guide to the exhibition of the Royal academy...

Author: Anthony Pasquin
ISBN: 9785518759541
Format: Paperback
$77.50

A critical guide to the exhibition of the Royal academy, for 1796 in which all the works of merit are examined the...  Read More >>

Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I

Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World...

Author: Research Associate Emily Mayhew (Imperial College) ,  E R Mayhew
ISBN: 9780199322459
Format: Hardback
$89.73

The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and...  Read More >>

The Institution of Science and the Science of Institutions: The Legacy of Joseph Ben-David

The Institution of Science and the Science of Institutions:...

Author: Marcel Herbst
ISBN: 9789400774063
Format: Hardback
$258.72

The volume addresses the following disciplines: higher education, history and sociology of science, philosophy of...  Read More >>

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