History of medicine books

42348 books were found.

Rio-Hortega's Third Contribution to the Morphological Knowledge and Functional Interpretation of the Oligodendroglia

Rio-Hortega's Third Contribution to the Morphological...

Author: Jose R Iglesias-Rozas ,  Manuel Garrosa
ISBN: 9781299657137
Format: Electronic book text
$316.64

Pio del Rio-Hortega, one of the pioneering neuroscientists and discoverer of microglia, has been recognized as one...  Read More >>

Diagnosing Giants: Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World

Diagnosing Giants: Solving the Medical Mysteries of...

Author: Professor and Vice Chairman Department of Medicine Philip A Mackowiak (University of Maryland School of Medicine)
ISBN: 9781299746367
Format: Electronic book text
$138.36

Could Lincoln have lived? After John Wilkes Booth fired a low-velocity .44 caliber bullet into the back of the president's...  Read More >>

Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece

Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece

Author: Steven M Oberhelman, Professor
ISBN: 9781299398177
Format: Undefined
$316.67

This volume centers on dreams in Greek medicine from the fifth-century B.C.E. Hippocratic Regimen down to the modern...  Read More >>

Mental Disorders in the Classical World

Mental Disorders in the Classical World

Author: Professor of Politics William Harris, M.D (University of Otago)
ISBN: 9781299468177
Format: Electronic book text
$604.56

Mental Disorders in the Classical World seeks to show through interdisciplinary work how the first medical scientists...  Read More >>

Lobotomy Letters

Lobotomy Letters

Author: Mical Raz
ISBN: 9781299639430
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

The rise and widespread acceptance of psychosurgery constitutes one of the most troubling chapters in the history...  Read More >>

Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt: Ibn Al-Nafis, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection: Ibn Al-Nafis, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection

Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt: Ibn Al-Nafis,...

Author: Nahyan Fancy (DePauw University, USA)
ISBN: 9781299641228
Format: Electronic book text
$382.80

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Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain

Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain

Author: Jonathan Toms
ISBN: 9781299643284
Format: Electronic book text
$224.40

Through an examination that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary literature, this book places...  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: 9781299645165
Format: Electronic book text
$214.32

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

Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine

Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine

Author: Roger Cooter (University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9781299648098
Format: Electronic book text
$92.40

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Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville

Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville

Author: Kristy Wilson Bowers
ISBN: 9781299863163
Format: Electronic book text
$237.60

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Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945-1970

Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American...

Author: Dr Martin Halliwell, Dr (University of Leicester)
ISBN: 9781299456563
Format: Electronic book text
$166.19

Therapeutic Revolutions examines the evolving relationship between American medicine, psychiatry, and culture from...  Read More >>

Smallpox: A History

Smallpox: A History

Author: S L Kotar ,  J E Gessler
ISBN: 9781299485501
Format: Electronic book text
$118.80

Scientifically known as Variola major, the deadliest form of smallpox has plagued mankind since time immemorial....  Read More >>

Infantry Combat Medics in Europe, 1944-45

Infantry Combat Medics in Europe, 1944-45

Author: Tracy Shilcutt
ISBN: 9781299618695
Format: Electronic book text
$178.20

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The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire

The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire

Author: Professor of History Susan P Mattern (University of Georgia)
ISBN: 9781299630987
Format: Electronic book text
$190.08

The remarkable career of Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - 216) began as a provincial medic tending to wounded gladiators...  Read More >>

Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine

Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine

Author: Martin Saxer
ISBN: 9781299777866
Format: Electronic book text
$300.96

Within a mere decade, hospital pharmacies throughout the Tibetan areas of the People's Republic of China have been...  Read More >>

World Century Compendium to Tcm: Volume 2: Introduction to Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine

World Century Compendium to Tcm: Volume 2: Introduction...

Author: Pan-Ji Cheng ,  Zhao-Qin Fang
ISBN: 9781299787827
Format: Electronic book text
$300.96

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Surgical Temptation

Surgical Temptation

Author: Robert Darby
ISBN: 9781299803619
Format: Undefined
$118.80

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

You're the First One I've Told: The Faces of HIV in the Deep South

You're the First One I've Told: The Faces of HIV in...

Author: Kathryn Whetten-Goldstein ,  Brian Wells Pence
ISBN: 9781299821927
Format: Electronic book text
$190.08

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

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

Author: Laurinda Abreu ,  Sally Sheard (University of Liverpool, UK)
ISBN: 9781299992047
Format: Electronic book text
$216.35

This edited volume originates in the 2011 conference of the International Network for the History of Hospitals,...  Read More >>

Health and Wellness in the Renaissance and Enlightenment

Health and Wellness in the Renaissance and Enlightenment...

Author: Joseph Byrne
ISBN: 9781299999374
Format: Electronic book text
$153.12

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Hospitals and Communities, 1100-1960

Hospitals and Communities, 1100-1960

Author: Christopher Bonfield ,  Jonathan Reinarz (University of Birmingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781299991996
Format: Electronic book text
$224.27

Comprises a selection of the papers delivered at two conferences (in 1999 and 2001) that were organised by the International...  Read More >>

Islamic Medicine

Islamic Medicine

Author: Muhammad Salim Khan
ISBN: 9781299998544
Format: Electronic book text
$514.80

Deals with the historical, philosophical and psychological concepts found in Islamic medical practices. This book...  Read More >>

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