History of medicine books

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Some Early and Later Houses of Pity (Routledge Revivals)

Some Early and Later Houses of Pity (Routledge Revivals)...

Author: John Hobson
ISBN: 9780415820790
Format: Hardback
$88.99

From around the eleventh century until the Reformation, a close connection between the Church and hospitals was...  Read More >>

Live Long and Prosper: How Black Megachurches Address HIV/AIDS and Poverty in the Age of Prosperity Theology

Live Long and Prosper: How Black Megachurches Address...

Author: Sandra L. Barnes
ISBN: 9780823249565
Format: Hardback
$167.99

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Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America

Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America...

Author: Alexandra Minna Stern (Professor, University of Michigan)
ISBN: 9781421406671
Format: Hardback
$145.00

Drawing from archival records, patient files, and oral histories, Stern presents the fascinating story of the growth...  Read More >>

Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease

Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease...

Author: Professor Alexander R. Bay (Customer)
ISBN: 9781580464277
Format: Hardback
$290.40

The history of the medical and scientific debate about the etiology of the disease as it played out between diet...  Read More >>

Health and Hazard: Spa Culture and the Social History of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

Health and Hazard: Spa Culture and the Social History...

Author: Karl E. Wood
ISBN: 9781443840996
Format: Hardback
$116.41

The spa in nineteenth century European society was a place of intersections: of social class and of ideas, of social...  Read More >>

The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911: The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease

The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911: The Geopolitics...

Author: William C. Summers
ISBN: 9780300183191
Format: Hardback
$88.95

When plague broke out in Manchuria in 1910 as a result of transmission from marmots to humans, it struck a region...  Read More >>

Medicine and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt

Medicine and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt

Author: Philippa Lang
ISBN: 9789004218581
Format: Hardback
$467.28

Examining all forms of healing within the specific socioeconomic and environmental constraints of the Ptolemies'...  Read More >>

The Miraculous Conformist: Valentine Greatrakes, the Body Politic, and the Politics of Healing in Restoration Britain

The Miraculous Conformist: Valentine Greatrakes, the...

Author: Peter Elmer (Senior Lecturer, Department of History, The Open University)
ISBN: 9780199663965
Format: Hardback
$268.00

Tells the compelling story of Irish healer Valentine Greatrakes and outlines his place in the history of seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

Pharmacy in World War II

Pharmacy in World War II

Author: Dennis B Worthen (Lloyd Scholar Lloyd Library Cincinnati Ohio USA)
ISBN: 9781481054423
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Learn the real story of pharmacy's greatest generation during the war years-at home and on the battlefield! World...  Read More >>

Amputated Souls: The Psychiatric Assault on Liberty 1935-2011

Amputated Souls: The Psychiatric Assault on Liberty...

Author: Anthony James
ISBN: 9781845404505
Format: Paperback
$25.75

Explores the subject of the assault upon human rights and human freedom by psychiatrists and the clinical methods...  Read More >>

Ways of Regulating Drugs in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Ways of Regulating Drugs in the 19th and 20th Centuries...

Author: V. Hess ,  V. Hess
ISBN: 9780230301962
Format: Hardback
$169.00

This collection takes the perspective that the historiography of science, technology, and medicine needs a broader...  Read More >>

Oregon's Doctor to the World: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and a Life in Activism

Oregon's Doctor to the World: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and...

Author: Kimberly Jensen
ISBN: 9780295992242
Format: Paperback
$38.95

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Disease and Medicine in India – A Historical Overview

Disease and Medicine in India – A Historical Overview...

Author: Deepak Kumar
ISBN: 9789382381051
Format: Paperback
$43.75

The history of science, technology, and medicine has always occupied a special place in Indian history through the...  Read More >>

The Edwin Smith Papyrus: Updated Translation of the Trauma Treatise and Modern Medical Commentaries

The Edwin Smith Papyrus: Updated Translation of the...

Author: Gonzalo M. Sanchez ,  Edmund S. Meltzer
ISBN: 9781937040017
Format: Hardback
$660.00

This volume contains the original hieratic text, complete transcription into hieroglyphs, transliteration, English...  Read More >>

Cannabis Nation: Control and Consumption in Britain, 1928-2008

Cannabis Nation: Control and Consumption in Britain,...

Author: James H. Mills (Professor of Modern History, Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare Glasgow, University of Strathclyde)
ISBN: 9780199283422
Format: Hardback
$171.95

The first comprehensive history of the consumption and control of cannabis in the UK. Based on extensive archival...  Read More >>

Notes On Nursing: What It Is, Aand What It Is Not.

Notes On Nursing: What It Is, Aand What It Is Not.

Author: Florence Nightingale
ISBN: 9781481821445
Format: Paperback
$32.31

"Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not is a book first published by Florence Nightingale in 1859.[1] A...  Read More >>

With Words and Knives

With Words and Knives

Author: Lynda Payne
ISBN: 9781281332301
Format: Undefined
$356.27

The practice of medicine in the days before the development of anaesthetics could often be a brutal and painful...  Read More >>

Principles of Tibetan Medicine

Principles of Tibetan Medicine

Author: Dr Tamdin Sither Bradley
ISBN: 9781283960052
Format: Electronic book text
$42.11

This introductory guide presents all the essential information on Tibetan medicine, an ancient medical system which...  Read More >>

History of Medicine

History of Medicine

Author: Rebecca Greene
ISBN: 9781283967075
Format: Electronic book text
$343.20

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Evidence and Rational Based Research on Chinese Drugs

Evidence and Rational Based Research on Chinese Drugs...

Author: Hildebert Wagner ,  Gudrun Ulrich-Merzenich
ISBN: 9781299336261
Format: Electronic book text
$630.96

With more than 1000 publications on various aspects of TCM drugs in international journals over the last 10 years,...  Read More >>

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

Caring and Killing: Nursing and Psychiatric Practice...

Author: Thomas Foth
ISBN: 9781299283893
Format: Electronic book text
$117.30

Die Rolle der Pflegeaufzeichungen bei der Ermordung Kranker wahrend des NS-Regimes oder: Wie werden PatientInnenidentitaten...  Read More >>

Autism: A Social and Medical History

Autism: A Social and Medical History

Author: Professor Mitzi Waltz (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781299406971
Format: Electronic book text
$224.40

Autism: A Social and Medical History contextualizes autism as a socio cultural phenomenon, and examines the often...  Read More >>

Door of Last Resort, The: Memoirs of a Nurse Practitioner

Door of Last Resort, The: Memoirs of a Nurse Practitioner...

Author: Professor Frances Ward
ISBN: 9781299192485
Format: Electronic book text
$79.07

This memoir describes the education of nurse practitioners, their scope of practice, their abilities to prescribe...  Read More >>

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