History of medicine books

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Sentenced to Science: One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment in America

Sentenced to Science: One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment...

Author: Allen M. Hornblum (Temple University) ,  Harriet Washington
ISBN: 9780271058757
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Sentenced to Science retells the story of the Holmesburg experiments more dramatically through the eyes of one black...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine

Author: Mark Jackson (Professor of the History of Medicine, Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780199668397
Format: Paperback
$86.95

In three sections, the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical...  Read More >>

Spirit Cure: A History of Pentecostal Healing

Spirit Cure: A History of Pentecostal Healing

Author: Joseph W. Williams (Assistant Professor of Religion, Assistant Professor of Religion, Rutgers University)
ISBN: 9780199765676
Format: Hardback
$208.00

Joseph W. Williams examines the changing healing practices of pentecostals in the United States over the past 100...  Read More >>

Physicians of Myddfai, The - Cures and Remedies of the Medieval World

Physicians of Myddfai, The - Cures and Remedies of the...

Author: Terry Breverton
ISBN: 9780957245990
Format: Paperback
$38.68

This is the first new and unexpurgated translation of Meddygon Myddfai, The Physicians of Myddfai, for over 150...  Read More >>

Irish Women in Medicine, C.1880s–1920s: Origins, Education and Careers

Irish Women in Medicine, C.1880s–1920s: Origins, Education...

Author: Laura Kelly ,  Rebecca Mortimer
ISBN: 9780719088353
Format: Hardback
$183.99

The first comprehensive history of Irish women in medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....  Read More >>

Before HIV: Sexuality, Fertility and Mortality in East Africa, 1900-1980

Before HIV: Sexuality, Fertility and Mortality in East...

Author: Shane Doyle (Senior Lecturer in African History, University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9780197265338
Format: Hardback
$228.95

Two of the most important questions in modern African history are the causes of its population explosion, and the...  Read More >>

A New Course of Chemistry

A New Course of Chemistry

Author: James Millar
ISBN: 9785518413580
Format: Paperback
$51.44

This book, A new course of chemistry, by James Millar, is a replication of a book originally published before...  Read More >>

Health at Gunpoint: The Fda's Silent War Against Health Freedom

Health at Gunpoint: The Fda's Silent War Against Health...

Author: James J Gormley
ISBN: 9780757003813
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Who controls the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and what are the real goals of this powerful agency? These...  Read More >>

Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry & Pharmacy Kansas City, Missouri Names of 3400 Graduates, 1871-1905

Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry & Pharmacy Kansas City,...

Author: James a Tharp
ISBN: 9780615770819
Format: Paperback
$58.53

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Lifeline: A British Casualty Clearing Station on the Western Front, 1918

Lifeline: A British Casualty Clearing Station on the...

Author: Iain Gordon
ISBN: 9780752489964
Format: Hardback
$39.99

On 21st March 1918, 29th and 3rd Casualty Clearing Stations RAMC were encamped at Grévillers, just behind the front...  Read More >>

Medical Protestants: The Eclectics in American Medicine, 1825-1939

Medical Protestants: The Eclectics in American Medicine,...

Author: John S. Haller
ISBN: 9780809331420
Format: Paperback
$79.20

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The Eye in History

The Eye in History

Author: Frank Joseph Goes
ISBN: 9789350902745
Format: Paperback
$509.74

Comprehensive manual describing the structure and function of the eye, ocular disorders and their treatment. Includes...  Read More >>

Palliative Medicine in the UK C.1970 - 2010

Palliative Medicine in the UK C.1970 - 2010

Author: C Overy ,  E M Tansey
ISBN: 9780902238824
Format: Paperback
$15.53

Palliative medicine and the modern hospice movement developed in the UK from the late 1960s onwards. St Christopher's...  Read More >>

Ma'i Lepera: A History of Leprosy in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii

Ma'i Lepera: A History of Leprosy in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Kerri A. Inglis
ISBN: 9780824834845
Format: Hardback
$163.68

This book attempts to recover Hawaiian voices at a significant moment in Hawaiis history. It takes an unprecedented...  Read More >>

History of Circumcision: From the Earliest Times to the Present

History of Circumcision: From the Earliest Times to...

Author: Peter Charles Remondino ,  Allen Wyler
ISBN: 9780985994297
Format: Paperback
$49.03

This fascinating and very readable book goes into medical and historical detail about a part of the body most men...  Read More >>

Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China

Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and...

Author: Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415835350
Format: Paperback
$110.00

This book traces the history of the Chinese concept of ""Warm diseases"" (wenbing) from antiquity to the SARS epidemic....  Read More >>

A story of the Red cross glimpses of field work

A story of the Red cross glimpses of field work

Author: Clara Barton
ISBN: 9785518795754
Format: Paperback
$118.67

A story of the Red cross glimpses of field work. This book, A story of the Red cross glimpses of field work, by...  Read More >>

Science between Europe and Asia: Historical Studies on the Transmission, Adoption and Adaptation of Knowledge

Science between Europe and Asia: Historical Studies...

Author: Feza Günergun ,  Dhruv Raina
ISBN: 9789400734647
Format: Paperback
$351.90

This book explores the various historical and cultural aspects of scientific, medical and technical exchanges that...  Read More >>

Caring and Killing: Nursing and Psychiatric Practice in Germany, 1931--1943

Caring and Killing: Nursing and Psychiatric Practice...

Author: Thomas Foth ,  Wolfgang Rainer LA cke
ISBN: 9783847100621
Format: Hardback
$198.00

"Under the Nazi regime in Germany a calculated killing of chronic ""mentally ill"" patients took place. Nurses executed...  Read More >>

The tutor's assistant being a compendium of arithmetic and complete question-book

The tutor's assistant being a compendium of arithmetic...

Author: Francis Walkingame
ISBN: 9785518745957
Format: Paperback
$77.50

The tutor's assistant being a compendium of arithmetic, and complete question-book. This book, The tutor's assistant...  Read More >>

Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness

Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment...

Author: Edward Shorter ,  David Healy
ISBN: 9780813554259
Format: Paperback
$121.31

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Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs: Frontier Medicine in the American West

Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs: Frontier Medicine...

Author: Wayne Bethard
ISBN: 9781570984549
Format: Paperback
$40.99

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Communities of Learned Experience: Epistolary Medicine in the Renaissance

Communities of Learned Experience: Epistolary Medicine...

Author: Nancy G. Siraisi
ISBN: 9781421407494
Format: Hardback
$109.00

The collections she has selected include essays on general medical topics addressed to colleagues or disciples,...  Read More >>

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