History of medicine books

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The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India

The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial...

Author: Biswamoy Pati ,  Mark Harrison
ISBN: 9780415501453
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Analyses the diverse facets of the social history of health and medicine in colonial India. This book explores a...  Read More >>

The Seaman's Medical Advocate: Or, an Attempt to Shew that Five Thousand Seamen Are, Annually, During War, Lost to the British Nation through the Yellow Fever

The Seaman's Medical Advocate: Or, an Attempt to Shew...

Author: Elliot Arthy
ISBN: 9780511995996
Format: Undefined
$224.40

First published in 1798, this medical discourse outlines the causes and cures for the rampant spread of yellow fever...  Read More >>

Height, Health and History: Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750–1980

Height, Health and History: Nutritional Status in the...

Author: Roderick Floud (Provost) ,  Kenneth Wachter
ISBN: 9780511983245
Format: Undefined
$435.60

In historical accounts of the circumstances of ordinary people's lives, nutrition has been the great unknown. Nearly...  Read More >>

Gentlemen Volunteers: The Story of the American Ambulance Drivers in the First World War

Gentlemen Volunteers: The Story of the American Ambulance...

Author: Arlen J. Hansen ,  George Plimpton
ISBN: 9781611450996
Format: Paperback
$29.99

The tale of the American volunteer ambulance drivers of the First World...  Read More >>

Complaints And Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness

Complaints And Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness...

Author: Barbara BE Ehrenreich ,  Deirdre English
ISBN: 9781558616950
Format: Paperback
$26.27

New edition of this bestselling book about the history of sexism in the medical profession.  Read More >>

Shropshire Doctors & Quacks

Shropshire Doctors & Quacks

Author: Richard Moore
ISBN: 9781445604312
Format: Paperback
$59.49

The History of the medical profession in Shropshire.  Read More >>

The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States

The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception...

Author: Heather Munro Prescott
ISBN: 9780813551630
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Since 2006, when the “morning-after pill” Plan B was first sold over the counter, sales of emergency contraceptives...  Read More >>

The Global Biopolitics of the IUD: How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies

The Global Biopolitics of the IUD: How Science Constructs...

Author: Chikako Takeshita
ISBN: 9786613321732
Format: Electronic book text
$95.04

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Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research

Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical...

Author: Laura Stark
ISBN: 9786613344793
Format: Electronic book text
$288.29

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Integrating History and Philosophy of Science: Problems and Prospects

Integrating History and Philosophy of Science: Problems...

Author: Seymour Mauskopf ,  Tad Schmaltz
ISBN: 9789400717442
Format: Hardback
$366.96

Though the publication of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions seemed to herald the advent of a unified study...  Read More >>

Galvani's Spark: The Story of the Nerve Impulse

Galvani's Spark: The Story of the Nerve Impulse

Author: Alan McComas (MBBS, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, MBBS, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada., Hamilton, Ontario)
ISBN: 9780199751754
Format: Hardback
$171.95

Galvani's Spark describes the gradual understanding of the nerve impulse--the basis of all thoughts, sensations...  Read More >>

Officina Hippocratica: Beitrge Zu Ehren Von Anargyros Anastassiou Und Dieter Irmer

Officina Hippocratica: Beitrge Zu Ehren Von Anargyros...

Author: Lorenzo Perilli ,  Klaus-Dietrich Fischer
ISBN: 9786613429131
Format: Electronic book text
$522.72

It has long been appreciated that ancient medicine, and above all Hippocrates and Galen, played a significant role...  Read More >>

Officina Hippocratica: Beitrage Zu Ehren Von Anargyros Anastassiou Und Dieter Irmer

Officina Hippocratica: Beitrage Zu Ehren Von Anargyros...

Author: Lorenzo Perilli ,  Christian Brockmann
ISBN: 9783111732008
Format: Mixed media product
$628.32

It has long been appreciated that ancient medicine, and above all Hippocrates and Galen, played a significant role...  Read More >>

UEber Aderlass und Hexenkunst

UEber Aderlass und Hexenkunst

Author: Susann Grille
ISBN: 9783640996582
Format: Paperback
$38.55

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Notes on Nursing

Notes on Nursing

Author: Florence Nightingale
ISBN: 9781466403406
Format: Paperback
$23.63

Defines the precepts that became the prototype for contemporary nursing practice. This title provides a historical...  Read More >>

Mal D'Arte: Patologo Tra Gli Artisti

Mal D'Arte: Patologo Tra Gli Artisti

Author: Giorgio Weber
ISBN: 9788856401509
Format: Paperback
$79.20

English description: Giorgio Weber's years of medical practice and publications give him a unique perspective on...  Read More >>

Une Histoire Du Cancer Du Sein En Occident: Enseignements Et Reflexions

Une Histoire Du Cancer Du Sein En Occident: Enseignements...

Author: Jacques Rouesse ,  Jacques Rou Ss
ISBN: 9782817801865
Format: Paperback
$158.27

Si selon Soltjenitsyne, le melanome est la reine des tumeurs malignes, depuis toujours le cancer du sein en est...  Read More >>

24 hours to save the NHS: The Chief Executive's account of reform 2000 to 2006

24 hours to save the NHS: The Chief Executive's account...

Author: Lord Nigel Crisp
ISBN: 9780199639953
Format: Paperback
$38.95

'24 hours to save the NHS' is the inside story written by the man with unprecedented authority as both Chief Executive...  Read More >>

The Pox and the Covenant: Mather, Franklin, and the Epidemic That Changed America's Destiny

The Pox and the Covenant: Mather, Franklin, and the...

Author: Tony Williams
ISBN: 9781402260933
Format: Paperback
$42.21

The dramatic and little-known story of the battle between science and religion during the great Boston smallpox...  Read More >>

Frigidity: An Intellectual History

Frigidity: An Intellectual History

Author: Peter Cryle ,  Alison Moore
ISBN: 9786613290403
Format: Electronic book text
$269.28

This first major study of a curiously neglected term in the history of sexuality will intrigue students, scholars...  Read More >>

A Methodical Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Physic

A Methodical Introduction to the Theory and Practice...

Author: David MacBride
ISBN: 9781248211458
Format: Paperback
$128.70

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing...  Read More >>

A Manual of the Operations of Surgery: for the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners

A Manual of the Operations of Surgery: for the Use of...

Author: Joseph Bell
ISBN: 9781849023153
Format: Hardback
$43.96

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A General Index to the Philosophical Transactions, from the First to the End of the Seventieth Volume

A General Index to the Philosophical Transactions, from...

Author: Paul Henry Maty
ISBN: 9781248155875
Format: Paperback
$147.18

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