History of medicine books

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Professor Hein J.J. Wellens: 33 Years of Cardiology and Arrhythmology: 33 Years of Cardiology and Arrhythmology

Professor Hein J.J. Wellens: 33 Years of Cardiology...

Author: J. Smeets ,  P.A.F.M. Doevendans
ISBN: 9789401057998
Format: Paperback
$388.10

The first invasive evaluation of cardiac arrhythmias in humans was performed in 1967 in Paris (Prof.  Read More >>

Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe

Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe

Author: Nancy S. Struever ,  Stephen Pender
ISBN: 9781409430223
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Through close analysis of texts, cultural and civic communities, and intellectual history, the papers in this collection...  Read More >>

Contagion and Enclaves: Tropical Medicine in Colonial India

Contagion and Enclaves: Tropical Medicine in Colonial...

Author: Nandini Bhattacharya (School of Humanities, University of Dundee (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781846318290
Format: Hardback
$62.10

Contagion and Enclaves studies the social history of medicine within two intersecting enclaves in colonial India;...  Read More >>

Medicine and Modernity: Public Health and Medical Care in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany

Medicine and Modernity: Public Health and Medical Care...

Author: Manfred Berg (German Historical Institute, Washington DC) ,  Geoffrey Cocks (Albion College, Michigan)
ISBN: 9781139052689
Format: Undefined
$435.60

This collection comprehensively and critically addresses fundamental issues in the history of medicine in modern...  Read More >>

Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 16

Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform: Collected...

Author: McDonald, Lynn, PhD LLD
ISBN: 9781554585342
Format: Paperback
$250.80

"Florence Nightingale began working on hospital reform even before she founded her famous school of nursing; hospitals...  Read More >>

A History of Apprenticeship Nurse Training in Ireland

A History of Apprenticeship Nurse Training in Ireland...

Author: Gerard Fealy (University College Dublin, Ireland)
ISBN: 9780415655040
Format: Paperback
$103.00

Based on new research using previously unpublished sources, this book is the first in-depth study of the history...  Read More >>

Gold Mirrors and Tongue Reflections: The Cornerstone Classics of Chinese Medicine Tongue Diagnosis - The Ao Shi Shang Han Jin Jing Lu, and the Shang Han She Jian

Gold Mirrors and Tongue Reflections: The Cornerstone...

Author: Ioannis Solos ,  Liang Rong
ISBN: 9781848190955
Format: Hardback
$129.00

This text introduces important aspects of the earliest writings on tongue diagnosis to assist the reader in understanding...  Read More >>

Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth...

Author: James Kelly (Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, UK) ,  Fiona Clark
ISBN: 9781282385498
Format: Undefined
$369.47

The story of early modern medicine, with its extremes of scientific brilliance and barbaric practice, has long held...  Read More >>

Health and Disease in Byzantine Crete (7th 12th Centuries Ad)

Health and Disease in Byzantine Crete (7th 12th Centuries...

Author: Temporary Lecturer at the Department of Mediterranean Studies Chryssi Bourbou (University of the Aegean)
ISBN: 9781282948327
Format: Undefined
$356.27

Daily life and living conditions in the Byzantine world are relatively underexplored subjects, often neglected in...  Read More >>

Cretan Healer's Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition

Cretan Healer's Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition...

Author: Patricia Ann Clark, Professor
ISBN: 9781283282093
Format: Undefined
$369.47

This is an edition and translation of a traditional healer's notebook from Crete. It belongs to the genre of iatrosophia:...  Read More >>

Fever Hospitals and Fever Nurses

Fever Hospitals and Fever Nurses

Author: Margaret Currie
ISBN: 9781280231742
Format: Electronic book text
$506.88

This volume provides an account of the development of fever and smallpox hospitals in 19th / 20th century Britain....  Read More >>

Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500 1800

Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500...

Author: Elaine Leong ,  Alisha Rankin
ISBN: 9781283135733
Format: Undefined
$356.27

Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical and scientific knowledge in early modern Europe. As...  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: 9783847215547
Format: Paperback
$31.02

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 >>

Searching for the Best Medicine

Searching for the Best Medicine

Author: Arthur Bank
ISBN: 9781299556522
Format: Electronic book text
$163.68

This book describes the life and times of a physician-scientist over the last half-century. Part One is about the...  Read More >>

System of Physic (Gul MS Hunter 509, Ff. 1r-167v): A Compendium of Mediaeval Medicine Including the Middle English Gilbertus Anglicus

System of Physic (Gul MS Hunter 509, Ff. 1r-167v): A...

Author: Laura Esteban-Segura
ISBN: 9781299551022
Format: Electronic book text
$282.35

Presents the first edition of Glasgow , University Library, MS Hunter 509 (ff. 1r-167v), an English medical manuscript...  Read More >>

Disabilities in Roman Antiquity

Disabilities in Roman Antiquity

Author: Christian Laes (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) ,  Chris Goodey
ISBN: 9781299665491
Format: Electronic book text
$469.92

This is the first volume ever to systematically study the subject of disabilities in the Roman world. The contributors...  Read More >>

Guide to the Canadian Family Medicine Examination

Guide to the Canadian Family Medicine Examination

Author: Megan Dash ,  Angela Arnold
ISBN: 9781299824492
Format: Electronic book text
$198.00

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Rettung Und Wiederbelebung Verungluckter, 1740-1840: Mit Besonderer Berucksichtigung Der Atmungs- Und Beatmungsgerate Sowie Anderer Hilfsmittel

Rettung Und Wiederbelebung Verungluckter, 1740-1840:...

Author: Claudia Schmitt
ISBN: 9781299550728
Format: Electronic book text
$258.59

Ab der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts gab es ernsthafte Bemuhungen zur allgemeinen Verbreitung von Rettungs- und Wiederbelebungsmassnahmen...  Read More >>

Greek Medicine

Greek Medicine

Author: James Longrigg
ISBN: 9781299810563
Format: Electronic book text
$364.19

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Old Red: Pioneering Medical Education in Texas

Old Red: Pioneering Medical Education in Texas

Author: Ms Heather Green Wooten
ISBN: 9781299821613
Format: Electronic book text
$59.40

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Breast Cancer in the Eighteenth Century

Breast Cancer in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Marjo Kaartinen (University of Turku, Finland) ,  D R Moore
ISBN: 9781299962637
Format: Undefined
$261.36

Early modern physicians and surgeons tried desperately to understand breast cancer, testing new medicines and radically...  Read More >>

Bacteria in Britain, 1880 1939

Bacteria in Britain, 1880 1939

Author: Rosemary Wall ,  Rosemary Wall
ISBN: 9781299962866
Format: Undefined
$261.36

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