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Hearing Voices: The Histories, Causes and Meanings of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations

Hearing Voices: The Histories, Causes and Meanings of...

Author: Simon McCarthy-Jones (Macquarie University, Sydney)
ISBN: 9781107682016
Format: Paperback
$129.35

The history, phenomenology, meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal hallucinations)...  Read More >>

Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health

Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and...

Author: Robert Peckham (The University of Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9780415836197
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book maps the tensions, overlaps, and contradictions within and between social and biological understandings...  Read More >>

Body Failure: Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950

Body Failure: Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950

Author: Wendy Mitchinson
ISBN: 9781442646261
Format: Hardback
$175.00

In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in...  Read More >>

Horace Wells - On Nitrous Oxide

Horace Wells - On Nitrous Oxide

Author: Thomas Gamsjager
ISBN: 9781493660230
Format: Paperback
$31.68

On 11 December 1844 Horace Wells was the first to use the gas nitrous oxide as an inhalational anaesthetic. Wells...  Read More >>

Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England

Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors...

Author: Sarah Wise
ISBN: 9780099541868
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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The gentleman's farriery

The gentleman's farriery

Author: J Bartlet
ISBN: 9785518622142
Format: Paperback
$77.50

The gentleman's farriery: or, a practical treatise on the diseases of horses wherein the best writers on the subject...  Read More >>

The Evolution and Legacy of the Engel and Romano Work in Biopsychosocial Medicine

The Evolution and Legacy of the Engel and Romano Work...

Author: Diane Morse (Contributor) ,  Katherine R. Johnson
ISBN: 9781580464703
Format: Paperback
$52.77

This follow-up to Meliora Press/URP's 2010 biography of John Romano and George Engel explores the enduring impact...  Read More >>

Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century

Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century

Author: Bernd Gausemeier ,  Staffan Muller-Wille
ISBN: 9781848934269
Format: Hardback
$252.00

The essays in this collection examine how human heredity was understood between the end of the First World War and...  Read More >>

Bacteria in Britain, 1880–1939

Bacteria in Britain, 1880–1939

Author: Rosemary Wall
ISBN: 9781848934276
Format: Hardback
$252.00

Focusing on the years between the identification of bacteria and the production of antibiotic medicine, Wall presents...  Read More >>

Medicine and the Workhouse

Medicine and the Workhouse

Author: Jonathan Reinarz ,  Leonard Schwarz
ISBN: 9781580464482
Format: Hardback
$343.20

This is the first book to examine the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and...  Read More >>

The Archaeology of Medicine in the Greco-Roman World

The Archaeology of Medicine in the Greco-Roman World...

Author: Patricia A. Baker (University of Kent, Canterbury)
ISBN: 9780521194327
Format: Hardback
$157.81

This book teaches students and scholars of Greco-Roman medical history how to use and critically assess archaeological...  Read More >>

The Placebo: A Reader

The Placebo: A Reader

Author: Franklin G. Miller (Bioethicist, National Institutes of Health) ,  Luana Colloca (Research Fellow, National Institutes of Health)
ISBN: 9781421408668
Format: Paperback
$117.00

This comprehensive sourcebook will be invaluable to investigators and scholars alike.  Read More >>

A Treatise on Pulmonary Consumption: Comprehending an Inquiry into the Causes, Nature, Prevention and Treatment of Tuberculous and Scrofulous Diseases in General

A Treatise on Pulmonary Consumption: Comprehending an...

Author: James Clark
ISBN: 9781108062305
Format: Paperback
$93.12

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A Chemical and Medical Report of the Properties of the Mineral Waters: Of Buxton, Matlock, Tunbridge Wells, Harrogate, Bath, Cheltenham, Leamington, Malvern, and the Isle of Wight

A Chemical and Medical Report of the Properties of the...

Author: Charles Scudamore
ISBN: 9781108062022
Format: Paperback
$69.84

When this report first appeared in 1820, mineral waters were often prescribed for various illnesses. It was with...  Read More >>

Johannes de Mirfeld of St Bartholomew's, Smithfield: His Life and Works

Johannes de Mirfeld of St Bartholomew's, Smithfield:...

Author: Percival Horton-Smith Hartley ,  Harold Richard Aldridge
ISBN: 9781107686052
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Originally published in 1936, this book deals with the first writings of a medical nature known to be associated...  Read More >>

Body Failure: Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950

Body Failure: Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950

Author: Wendy Mitchinson
ISBN: 9781442614314
Format: Paperback
$89.99

In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in...  Read More >>

Krankheit Und Gesundheit in Der Fruhen Neuzeit

Krankheit Und Gesundheit in Der Fruhen Neuzeit

Author: Robert Jutte (Stuttgart University)
ISBN: 9783170222274
Format: Paperback
$95.04

"Mit den Fortschritten in der Medizin, vor allem aber mit der Verbesserung des Lebensstandards schwindet immer mehr...  Read More >>

Medicine, Health and the Arts: Approaches to the Medical Humanities

Medicine, Health and the Arts: Approaches to the Medical...

Author: Victoria Bates ,  Alan Bleakley
ISBN: 9780415644310
Format: Hardback
$305.00

In recent decades, both medical humanities and medical history have emerged as rich and varied sub-disciplines....  Read More >>

Medical Notes on Climate, Diseases, Hospitals, and Medical Schools, in France, Italy, and Switzerland: Comprising an Inquiry into the Effects of a Residence in the South of Europe, in Cases of Pulmonary Consumption

Medical Notes on Climate, Diseases, Hospitals, and Medical...

Author: James Clark
ISBN: 9781108064347
Format: Paperback
$67.25

The eminent Scottish physician Sir James Clark (1788–1870) had several high-profile patients, including Queen Victoria,...  Read More >>

An Unnatural History of Emerging Infections

An Unnatural History of Emerging Infections

Author: Ron Barrett (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Macalester College) ,  George Armelagos (the late) (Department of Anthropology, Emory University)
ISBN: 9780199608294
Format: Hardback
$159.95

This book traces the social and environmental determinants of human infectious diseases from the Neolithic to the...  Read More >>

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