History of medicine books

This book provides a broad introduction to medical practices among Anglo-Americans, Native Americans, and African...  Read More >>

<p>The four years of the Civil War saw bloodshed on a scale unprecedented in the history of the United States. Thousands...  Read More >>

Includes some of the greatest moments in World War II: the breakout of the Normandy hedgerow country, the dash across...  Read More >>

Medical Licensing and Discipline in America traces the evolution of the U.S. medical licensing system from its historical...  Read More >>

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Eine geordnete Entsorgung des Abwassers bildet eine Grundvoraussetzung fur jede menschliche Zivilisation. Vor allem...  Read More >>

Diese Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur im Alttiroler Raum (Nord-, Ost- und Sudtirol sowie Trentino) stellt...  Read More >>

The Complicity of Friends offers an entirely original perspective within which to appreciate four eminent Victorians:...  Read More >>

In this eye-opening expose, Edward T. Haslam presents evidence of a complex web of medical secret-keeping that began...  Read More >>

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"Kaum eine Personlichkeit des 18. Jahrhunderts wurde in den vergangenen 200 Jahren so einseitig rezipiert wie der...  Read More >>

"Keine Zeitschrift im deutschsprachigen Raum war in der zweiten Halfte des 19. Jahrhunderts so wirkmachtig wie die...  Read More >>

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A groundbreaking new book about the nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focussing on the renowned Salpêtrière...  Read More >>

<p>There was a time when birth was treated as a natural process rather than a medical condition. Before 1800, women...  Read More >>

"The nineteenth-century """"cult of curability"""" engendered the optimistic belief that mental illness could be...  Read More >>

In this eye-opening expose, Edward T. Haslam presents evidence of a complex web of medical secret-keeping that began...  Read More >>

In this eye-opening expose, Edward T. Haslam presents evidence of a complex web of medical secret-keeping that began...  Read More >>

In this eye-opening expose, Edward T. Haslam presents evidence of a complex web of medical secret-keeping that began...  Read More >>

Brings together eleven papers by leading scholars in ancient and medieval medicine and pharmacy. This volume honors...  Read More >>

This book gives an interesting account of the development of fever and smallpox hospitals in nineteenth and twentieth...  Read More >>

This volume makes available in English translation a selection of Jacques Jouanna's papers on Greek and Roman medicine,...  Read More >>