History of medicine books

42347 books were found.

Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World's Most Dangerous Disease

Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of...

Author: Wendy Orent
ISBN: 9781451695854
Format: Paperback
$50.13

Tells the story of the biggest bioterror threat we face.  Read More >>

Recherches Sur Les Origines Et La Formation de la Medecine Traditionnelle Chinoise: Un Guide de Reference Du Classique de l'Interieur de l'Empereur Jaune Huang Di Nei Jing Et de Ses Origines

Recherches Sur Les Origines Et La Formation de la Medecine...

Author: Ernesto Nastari-Micheli
ISBN: 9782817801896
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Cet ouvrage presente le Corpus medical de l'Empereur Jaune, le Huang Di Nei Jing, un ensemble de textes chinois...  Read More >>

Hippocrates, On the Art of Medicine

Hippocrates, On the Art of Medicine

Author: Joel Mann ,  Joel Mann
ISBN: 9789004224131
Format: Hardback
$464.64

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Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People

Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People

Author: Harry Ostrer, MD MD MD MD MD MD MD MD MD MD MD MD MD MD MD MD MD MD (Albert Einstein College f Medicine)
ISBN: 9786613716507
Format: Electronic book text
$131.87

Who are the Jews--a race, a people, a religious group? For over a century, non-Jews and Jews alike have tried to...  Read More >>

Medicine, Morality & Political Culture: Legislation on Venereal Disease in Five Northern European Countries, c.1870-1995

Medicine, Morality & Political Culture: Legislation...

Author: Ida Blom
ISBN: 9789185509737
Format: Paperback
$69.73

In this book celebrated historian Ida Blom analyses the political culture of five welfare states -- the three social-democratic...  Read More >>

Second Wind: Oral Histories of Lung Transplant Survivors

Second Wind: Oral Histories of Lung Transplant Survivors...

Author: M. Festle
ISBN: 9780230340916
Format: Hardback
$169.00

This book uses both oral and conventional historical methods to describe and analyze the history of lung transplantation...  Read More >>

Networks in Tropical Medicine: Internationalism, Colonialism, and the Rise of a Medical Specialty, 1890–1930

Networks in Tropical Medicine: Internationalism, Colonialism,...

Author: Deborah Neill
ISBN: 9780804778138
Format: Hardback
$104.95

This book explores the transnational character of tropical medicine as it was practiced in Europe and Africa in...  Read More >>

American Sunshine: Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light

American Sunshine: Diseases of Darkness and the Quest...

Author: Daniel Freund
ISBN: 9786613529947
Format: Electronic book text
$142.56

In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. As hulking new buildings overspread...  Read More >>

The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the ‘Opening’ of Japan

The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the...

Author: Ann Jannetta
ISBN: 9780804786904
Format: Paperback
$39.95

The Vaccinators examines the way a new generation of physicians in Tokugawa Japan transmitted global knowledge of...  Read More >>

Kurze Geschichte der Chirurgie

Kurze Geschichte der Chirurgie

Author: W. von Brunn
ISBN: 9783642872518
Format: Paperback
$105.57

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Contesting Colonial Authority

Contesting Colonial Authority

Author: Poonam Bala (Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London)
ISBN: 9786613884411
Format: Electronic book text
$190.05

Poonam Bala's Contesting Colonial Authority explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural...  Read More >>

Charity and Mutual Aid in Europe and North America since 1800

Charity and Mutual Aid in Europe and North America since...

Author: Bernard Harris (University of Southampton, UK) ,  Paul Bridgen (University of Southampton, UK)
ISBN: 9780415541053
Format: Paperback
$114.00

This collection examines the variety of relationships between statutory and voluntary sectors, and considers two...  Read More >>

Methods for Improving the Manufacture of Indigo: Originally Submitted to the Consideration of the Carolina Planters and Now Published for the Benefit of All the British Colonies Whose Situation Is Favorable to the Culture of Indigo.

Methods for Improving the Manufacture of Indigo: Originally...

Author: John Ledyard
ISBN: 9781275867215
Format: Paperback
$36.20

"Title: Methods for improving the manufacture of indigo: originally submitted to the consideration of the Carolina...  Read More >>

A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation: Exhibiting the Numerous Advantages to Be Derived from Small Canals and Boats of Two to Five Feet Wide Containing from Two to Five Tons Burthen: With a Description of the Machinery for Facilitating...

A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation: Exhibiting...

Author: Robert Fulton
ISBN: 9781275857032
Format: Paperback
$60.06

Title: A treatise on the improvement of canal navigation: exhibiting the numerous advantages to be derived from...  Read More >>

Community Nursing and Primary Healthcare in Twentieth-Century Britain

Community Nursing and Primary Healthcare in Twentieth-Century...

Author: Helen M. Sweet ,  with Rona Dougall (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
ISBN: 9780415541107
Format: Paperback
$60.99

This book looks at community nursing history in Great Britain during the twentieth century to examine the significant...  Read More >>

An Inquiry How to Prevent the Small-Pox: And Proceedings of a Society for Promoting General Inoculation at Stated Periods, and Preventing the Natural Small-Pox, in Chester.

An Inquiry How to Prevent the Small-Pox: And Proceedings...

Author: John Haygarth
ISBN: 9781275672109
Format: Paperback
$70.62

Title: An inquiry how to prevent the small-pox: and proceedings of a Society for promoting general inoculation at...  Read More >>

Three Lectures Upon Animal Life: Delivered in the University of Pennsylvania.

Three Lectures Upon Animal Life: Delivered in the University...

Author: Benjamin Rush
ISBN: 9781275735415
Format: Paperback
$36.20

"Title: Three lectures upon animal life: delivered in the University of Pennsylvania.Author: Benjamin RushPublisher:...  Read More >>

Adm. V---N's Opinion Upon the Present State of the British Navy: In a Letter to a Certain Board: To Which Is Annex'd by Way of Illustration, His Letter to the Secretary of the Same Board.

Adm. V---N's Opinion Upon the Present State of the British...

Author: Edward Vernon
ISBN: 9781275819207
Format: Paperback
$33.61

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The Practical Farmer: Being a New and Compendious System of Husbandry, Adapted to the Different Soils and Climates of America: Containing the Mechanical, Chemical and Philosophical Elements of Agriculture: With Many Other Useful and Interesting...

The Practical Farmer: Being a New and Compendious System...

Author: John Spurrier
ISBN: 9781275774070
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Title: The practical farmer: being a new and compendious system of husbandry, adapted to the different soils and...  Read More >>

A Dissertation on the Salutary Effects of Mercury, in Malignant Fevers.

A Dissertation on the Salutary Effects of Mercury, in...

Author: James Stuart
ISBN: 9781275813120
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Title: A dissertation on the salutary effects of mercury, in malignant fevers. Author: James Stuart Publisher:...  Read More >>

From Melancholia to Prozac: A history of depression

From Melancholia to Prozac: A history of depression...

Author: Clark Lawlor (Reader in English Literature, Northumbria University)
ISBN: 9780199585793
Format: Hardback
$38.95

Exactly what is depression? Do we under- or over-diagnose it? Do treatments on offer really work? Clark Lawlor sheds...  Read More >>

The Indian Nectar, Or, a Discourse Concerning Chocolata: Wherein the Nature of the Cacao-Nut, and the Other Ingredients of That Composition, Is Examined, and Stated According to the Judgment and Experience of the Indians, and Spanish Writers, Who...

The Indian Nectar, Or, a Discourse Concerning Chocolata:...

Author: Henry Stubbe
ISBN: 9781275809475
Format: Paperback
$65.34

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A Short Account of the Malignant Fever, Lately Prevalent in Philadelphia: With a Statement of the Proceedings That Took Place on the Subject in Different Parts of the United States.

A Short Account of the Malignant Fever, Lately Prevalent...

Author: Mathew Carey
ISBN: 9781275635180
Format: Paperback
$54.78

"Title: A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia: with a statement of the proceedings...  Read More >>

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