History of medicine books

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Hospitals and Communities, 1100-1960

Hospitals and Communities, 1100-1960

Author: Christopher Bonfield ,  Jonathan Reinarz
ISBN: 9783034302449
Format: Paperback
$146.45

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Medical History Education for Health Practitioners

Medical History Education for Health Practitioners

Author: Lisett Lovett ,  Alannah Tomkins
ISBN: 9781846199813
Format: Paperback
$65.99

This fascinating book brings to life the history of medicine in Britain since 1600. Throughout the historical account...  Read More >>

A Medical History of Skin: Scratching the Surface

A Medical History of Skin: Scratching the Surface

Author: Jonathan Reinarz (University of Birmingham, UK) ,  Kevin Siena
ISBN: 9781299962460
Format: Electronic book text
$313.63

Diseases affecting the skin have tended to provoke a response of particular horror in society. This collection of...  Read More >>

The Healing Gods: Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Christian America

The Healing Gods: Complementary and Alternative Medicine...

Author: Candy Brown (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington)
ISBN: 9780199985784
Format: Hardback
$176.88

This book tells the surprising story of how complementary and alternative medicine, CAM, entered biomedical and...  Read More >>

Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critical Editions and Studies)

Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English...

Author: Anke Timmermann
ISBN: 9789004254848
Format: Hardback
$525.36

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The Spanish Flu: Narrative and Cultural Identity in Spain, 1918

The Spanish Flu: Narrative and Cultural Identity in...

Author: R. Davis
ISBN: 9781349464395
Format: Paperback
$169.00

The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history....  Read More >>

Broadcasting Birth Control: Mass Media and Family Planning

Broadcasting Birth Control: Mass Media and Family Planning...

Author: Manon Parry
ISBN: 9780813561516
Format: Paperback
$102.83

Traditionally, the history of the birth control movement has been told through the accounts of the leaders, organizations,...  Read More >>

The Spanish Flu: Narrative and Cultural Identity in Spain, 1918

The Spanish Flu: Narrative and Cultural Identity in...

Author: R. Davis
ISBN: 9781137339201
Format: Hardback
$169.00

The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history....  Read More >>

Broadcasting Birth Control: Mass Media and Family Planning

Broadcasting Birth Control: Mass Media and Family Planning...

Author: Manon Parry
ISBN: 9780813561523
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Traditionally, the history of the birth control movement has been told through the accounts of the leaders, organizations,...  Read More >>

On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World

On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the...

Author: S. Nassir Ghaemi (Professor and Director, Mood Disorders Program, Tufts Medical Center)
ISBN: 9781421409337
Format: Hardback
$62.99

He has seen great achievements arise from great suffering and feels that understanding depression can provide important...  Read More >>

Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956

Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial...

Author: Ellen J. Amster ,  Rajae El Aoued
ISBN: 9780292762114
Format: Paperback
$64.95

Exploring the colonial encounter between France and Morocco as a process of embodiment, and the Muslim body as the...  Read More >>

Arithmetic, in All Its Parts, Vulgar and Decimal; As Also, Tables of Coins, Weights and Measures Used in Different Countries. with Interest and Annuities, Simple and Compound. Extraction of Roots, Mensuration of Planes and Solids, and

Arithmetic, in All Its Parts, Vulgar and Decimal; As...

Author: William Craighead
ISBN: 9781230142562
Format: Paperback
$46.46

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy...  Read More >>

Irish Constituencies in the Unreformed House of Commons

Irish Constituencies in the Unreformed House of Commons...

Author: Nicky Stuart Verra ,  MD Alfred Jay Bollet
ISBN: 9781492396154
Format: Paperback
$69.17

Before 1832 the British House of Commons was unreformed. It was elected by a franchise which allowed only around...  Read More >>

Killer Fat: Media, Medicine, and Morals in the American ""Obesity Epidemic”

Killer Fat: Media, Medicine, and Morals in the American...

Author: Natalie Boero
ISBN: 9780813564852
Format: Paperback
$102.83

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Social Histories of Disability and Deformity: Bodies, Images and Experiences

Social Histories of Disability and Deformity: Bodies,...

Author: David M. Turner ,  Kevin Stagg
ISBN: 9780415511513
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book, with articles from an international set of contributors, provides a scholarly social history of disability....  Read More >>

Cholera in Detroit: A History

Cholera in Detroit: A History

Author: Richard Adler
ISBN: 9780786474790
Format: Paperback
$61.00

"""During the mid to late 19th century, Detroit and the American Midwest were the sites of five major cholera epidemics....  Read More >>

Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence

Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence

Author: Henry E Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine Emeritus Gerald N Grob (Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University) ,  Prof Allan Horwitz
ISBN: 9781280492402
Format: Electronic book text
$380.16

In Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence, Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz employ historical and contemporary data...  Read More >>

Communicating Disease: Cultural Representations of American Medicine

Communicating Disease: Cultural Representations of American...

Author: Carmen Birkle ,  Johanna Heil
ISBN: 9783825362157
Format: Hardback
$200.64

Communicating Disease focuses on the intersections of literature and medicine. It unravels the intricate entanglement...  Read More >>

Prescription for Heterosexuality: Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era

Prescription for Heterosexuality: Sexual Citizenship...

Author: Carolyn Herbst Lewis
ISBN: 9781469609829
Format: Paperback
$85.80

In this lively and engaging work, Carolyn Lewis explores how medical practitioners, especially family physicians,...  Read More >>

The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice

The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice

Author: Peregrine Horden ,  Elisabeth Hsu
ISBN: 9780857459824
Format: Hardback
$125.00

Focusing on practice more than theory, this collection offers new perspectives for studying the so-called humoral...  Read More >>

'A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse': Equine Medicine in Early Modern England

'A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse': Equine...

Author: Louise Hill Curth
ISBN: 9789004223943
Format: Hardback
$456.72

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