History of medicine books

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Before Bioethics: A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution

Before Bioethics: A History of American Medical Ethics...

Author: Robert Baker (, Union College)
ISBN: 9780199774111
Format: Hardback
$233.00

The first history of American medical ethics published in more than a half century, Before Bioethics tracks the...  Read More >>

Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville

Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville

Author: Kristy Wilson Bowers (Customer)
ISBN: 9781580464512
Format: Hardback
$290.40

This study of sixteenth-century Seville offers a new perspective on how early modern cities adapted to living with...  Read More >>

The Wondrous Story of Anesthesia

The Wondrous Story of Anesthesia

Author: Edmond I Eger II ,  Lawrence J. Saidman
ISBN: 9781461484400
Format: Hardback
$659.97

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Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico

Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention: U.S. Medicine...

Author: Nicole Trujillo-Pagan
ISBN: 9789004243705
Format: Hardback
$435.60

This volume explores the establishment of US colonial rule over Puerto Rico through the appropriation and usurpation...  Read More >>

The Compleat Cyderman

The Compleat Cyderman

Author: William Ellis (University of California, Davis)
ISBN: 9781230467573
Format: Paperback
$34.40

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The Asylum as Utopia (Psychology Revivals): W.A.F. Browne and the Mid-Nineteenth Century Consolidation of Psychiatry

The Asylum as Utopia (Psychology Revivals): W.A.F. Browne...

Author: Andrew Scull
ISBN: 9780415730600
Format: Hardback
$357.00

What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be, first published in 1837, was of considerable significance in the history...  Read More >>

Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health

Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers...

Author: Jeanne E. Abrams
ISBN: 9780814789193
Format: Hardback
$152.00

The state of medicine and public healthcare today is still a work in progress, but these founders played a significant...  Read More >>

Hospital Life: Theory and Practice from the Medieval to the Modern

Hospital Life: Theory and Practice from the Medieval...

Author: Laurinda Abreu ,  Sally Sheard
ISBN: 9783034308847
Format: Paperback
$176.99

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Good For What Ails You: Dayton's Golden Age of Patent Medicine

Good For What Ails You: Dayton's Golden Age of Patent...

Author: Curt Dalton
ISBN: 9781492894063
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Dayton was once a hotbed for patent medicine sellers and manufacturers. It was a time of Redfern's Indian Tonic...  Read More >>

Medicine, Health and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1600-2000

Medicine, Health and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1600-2000...

Author: Steve Sturdy
ISBN: 9780415863049
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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The History of Bethlem

The History of Bethlem

Author: Jonathan Andrews ,  Asa Briggs
ISBN: 9780415867535
Format: Paperback
$105.00

The History of Bethlem is a scholarly history of this key establishment, looking at Bethlem's role within the caring...  Read More >>

Saving Lives in Wartime China: How Medical Reformers Built Modern Healthcare Systems Amid War and Epidemics, 1928-1945

Saving Lives in Wartime China: How Medical Reformers...

Author: John R. Watt
ISBN: 9789004256453
Format: Hardback
$543.84

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The Healing Goddess Gula: Towards an Understanding of Ancient Babylonian Medicine

The Healing Goddess Gula: Towards an Understanding of...

Author: Barbara Boeck
ISBN: 9789004261457
Format: Hardback
$411.84

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Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine

Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine

Author: Thomas H. Lee
ISBN: 9780674724976
Format: Hardback
$74.95

Much of the improved survival rate from heart attack can be traced to Eugene Braunwald’s work. He proved that myocardial...  Read More >>

Dropping the Bucket and Sponge: A History of Early Athletic Training

Dropping the Bucket and Sponge: A History of Early Athletic...

Author: Matt J Webber
ISBN: 9781490460277
Format: Paperback
$105.57

This is one of the most thoroughly researched books I have ever read. It explorers areas no one has thought to research...  Read More >>

A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain

A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin...

Author: Robert Darby
ISBN: 9780226101101
Format: Paperback
$51.95

In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews....  Read More >>

Psychotherapy in the Wake of War: Discovering Multiple Psychoanalytic Traditions

Psychotherapy in the Wake of War: Discovering Multiple...

Author: Bernd Huppertz ,  Robert S. Wallerstein
ISBN: 9780765709479
Format: Hardback
$135.95

This book shows how the differing views of twenty-three psychoanalysts of different traditions affect theoretical...  Read More >>

The Black Death

The Black Death

Author: Sean Martin, Std
ISBN: 9781306018951
Format: Electronic book text
$44.33

The Black Death is the name most commonly given to the pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the medieval world...  Read More >>

Test Tube Revolution: The Early History of IVF

Test Tube Revolution: The Early History of IVF

Author: John Leeton ,  Alan Trounson
ISBN: 9781922235060
Format: Paperback
$29.95

In Test Tube Revolution, Professor Leeton tells the story of the early days of IVF, his friend and fellow IVF pioneer...  Read More >>

Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto: A history of medical care 1941–1990

Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto: A history of medical care...

Author: Simonne Horwitz
ISBN: 9781868147472
Format: Paperback
$62.07

Illustrates how this rapidly growing, underfunded but surprisingly effective institution found the niche that allowed...  Read More >>

Western Maternity and Medicine, 1880-1990

Western Maternity and Medicine, 1880-1990

Author: Janet Greenlees ,  Linda Bryder
ISBN: 9781848934344
Format: Hardback
$315.00

The contributors to this collection look into the experiences of women in the Western world going through pregnancy...  Read More >>

Source Book of Medical History

Source Book of Medical History

Author: Logan Clendening
ISBN: 9780486206219
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Original accounts ranging from Ancient Egypt and Greece to discovery of x-rays: Galen, Pasteur, Lavoisier, Harvey,...  Read More >>

Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy

Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and...

Author: Susan M. Reverby
ISBN: 9781469609720
Format: Paperback
$99.00

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