History of medicine books

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Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire

Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire...

Author: Birsen Bulmus
ISBN: 9780748646593
Format: Hardback
$232.88

A sweeping examination of Ottoman plague treatise writers from the Black Death until 1923  Read More >>

Influenza: A Century of Science and Public Health Response

Influenza: A Century of Science and Public Health Response...

Author: George Dehner
ISBN: 9780822961895
Format: Paperback
$145.20

George Dehner examines the wide disparity in national and international responses to influenza pandemics, from the...  Read More >>

Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of Empire

Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms...

Author: Ishita Pande
ISBN: 9780415627542
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South (Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History)

Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War...

Author: Libra R. Hilde
ISBN: 9780813932125
Format: Hardback
$130.68

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Fear 2 Faith: Our Journey Through Mesothelioma

Fear 2 Faith: Our Journey Through Mesothelioma

Author: Linda Chitwood
ISBN: 9781465309525
Format: Paperback
$42.21

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Fear 2 Faith: Our Journey Through Mesothelioma

Fear 2 Faith: Our Journey Through Mesothelioma

Author: Linda Chitwood
ISBN: 9781465309532
Format: Hardback
$65.97

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Pox: An American History

Pox: An American History

Author: Michael Willrich
ISBN: 9780143120780
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Willrich presents the untold story of how America's Progressive-era war on smallpox sparked one of the great civil...  Read More >>

AIDS They Suckered Us: Greatest Medical Blunder in History

AIDS They Suckered Us: Greatest Medical Blunder in History...

Author: Noreen Martin
ISBN: 9781618631084
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"AIDS was the perfect storm due to several events that converged in the early 1980's. For 30 years, we have been...  Read More >>

Mental Illness and Learning Disability since 1850: Finding a Place for Mental Disorder in the United Kingdom

Mental Illness and Learning Disability since 1850: Finding...

Author: Pamela Dale ,  Joseph Melling
ISBN: 9780415514132
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Taking forward the debate on the role of institutions for treating and incarcerating the insane, this volume challenges...  Read More >>

Origin of a Medical Specialty: The Seamen's Hospital Society and Tropical Medicine

Origin of a Medical Specialty: The Seamen's Hospital...

Author: G. C. Cook
ISBN: 9780956059826
Format: Hardback
$51.75

The unique role of the Seamen's Hospital Society (SHS) in the foundation of the formal discipline of tropical (colonial)...  Read More >>

Kopf oder Bauch?: Zur Biologie der Entscheidung

Kopf oder Bauch?: Zur Biologie der Entscheidung

Author: Gerhard Roth ,  Michel Friedman
ISBN: 9783525402313
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Our brain tries to keep things simple and to use resources sustainably....  Read More >>

Wolf Prize In Medicine 1978-2008 (In 2 Volumes, With Cd-rom)

Wolf Prize In Medicine 1978-2008 (In 2 Volumes, With...

Author: John B Gurdon (Cambridge Univ, Uk)
ISBN: 9789814291736
Format: Hardback
$496.32

Presents an account of the recipients of the Wolf Prize in Medicine and features their curriculum vitae and examples...  Read More >>

Behinderungen und Beeinträchtigungen / Disability and Impairment in Antiquity

Behinderungen und Beeinträchtigungen / Disability and...

Author: Rupert Breitwieser
ISBN: 9781407309453
Format: Paperback
$106.09

This book contains papers in English and papers in German Studies in Early Medicine 2 Series Editors: Sally Crawford...  Read More >>

Altered Sensations: Rudolph Koenig’s Acoustical Workshop in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Altered Sensations: Rudolph Koenig’s Acoustical Workshop...

Author: David Pantalony
ISBN: 9789400730618
Format: Paperback
$388.10

Rudolph Koenig was one of the more prolific and colourful instrument makers in the renowned nineteenth-century precision...  Read More >>

Michael Ryan’s Writings on Medical Ethics

Michael Ryan’s Writings on Medical Ethics

Author: Howard A. Brody ,  Zahra Meghani
ISBN: 9789400730656
Format: Paperback
$413.97

Michael Ryan’s Writings on Medical Ethics offers both an annotated reprint of his key ethical writings, and an extensive...  Read More >>

Opium: Reality's Dark Dream

Opium: Reality's Dark Dream

Author: Thomas Dormandy
ISBN: 9780300175325
Format: Hardback
$67.95

Is opium a vile curse on society, a blessed medicine from God, or possibly both? This fresh history offers surprising...  Read More >>

The Proceedings of the 18th Annual History of Medicine Days Conference 2009: The University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine, Alberta, Canada

The Proceedings of the 18th Annual History of Medicine...

Author: Aleksandra Loewenau ,  Kerry Sun
ISBN: 9781443835701
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This volume is the first one in a peer-reviewed series of Proceedings Volumes from the Calgary History of Medicine...  Read More >>

Emergency Contraception: The Story of a Global Reproductive Health Technology

Emergency Contraception: The Story of a Global Reproductive...

Author: A. Foster ,  L. Wynn
ISBN: 9780230102828
Format: Hardback
$169.00

Despite its safety and efficacy, emergency contraception (EC) continues to spark political controversy worldwide....  Read More >>

Charcot in Morocco

Charcot in Morocco

Author: Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot ,  Toby Gelfand
ISBN: 9780776607740
Format: Paperback
$54.99

"Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot's travel diary of his 1887 trip to Morocco, which presents his personal reflections on...  Read More >>

Antike Im Labor: Kleopatra, Otzi Und die Modernen Naturwissenschaften

Antike Im Labor: Kleopatra, Otzi Und die Modernen Naturwissenschaften...

Author: Stephan Berry
ISBN: 9783805344500
Format: Hardback
$114.84

Gives an overview about natural scientific and medical methods in the field of archaeology  Read More >>

Headaches: Through the Centuries

Headaches: Through the Centuries

Author: Mervyn J Eadie (University of Queensland)
ISBN: 9786613625557
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

Headache: Through the Centuries illuminates the history of headaches with a particular interest in how the disorder...  Read More >>

Medical Imaging and Philosophy: Challenges, Reflections and Actions

Medical Imaging and Philosophy: Challenges, Reflections...

Author: Franz Steiner Verlag ,  Rethy K Chhem
ISBN: 9783515100465
Format: Paperback
$166.32

Medical Imaging plays a prominent role in contemporary medical research and practice. At the same time imaging in...  Read More >>

South Shore Hospital

South Shore Hospital

Author: Richard Aubut ,  Myrna Walsh
ISBN: 9781531650834
Format: Hardback
$64.66

South Shore Hospital is a dynamic regional medical center renowned for its culture of healing, caring, and comforting,...  Read More >>

Pioneers of Bacteriology: Dictionary of the Great Scientists

Pioneers of Bacteriology: Dictionary of the Great Scientists...

Author: Francois Renaud ,  Jean Freney
ISBN: 9782747215466
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A comprehensive yet accessible overview of the forerunners of modern Bacteriology and the key issues in this critical...  Read More >>

Microbes at War: From the Dark Ages to Modern Times

Microbes at War: From the Dark Ages to Modern Times...

Author: Francois Renaud ,  Jean Freney
ISBN: 9782747215473
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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