History of medicine books

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Model Experts: Wax Anatomies and Enlightenment in Florence and Vienna, 1775–1815

Model Experts: Wax Anatomies and Enlightenment in Florence...

Author: Anna Maerker ,  Rebecca Mortimer
ISBN: 9780719082054
Format: Hardback
$183.99

Model Experts is the first book-length history in English of a celebrated collection of anatomical wax models which...  Read More >>

Cultures of Plague: Medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance

Cultures of Plague: Medical thinking at the end of the...

Author: Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. (, Professor of Medieval History, University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9780199605095
Format: Paperback
$102.95

Cultures of Plague highlights this most feared epidemic, one that threatened Italy from 1575 to 1578 and unleashed...  Read More >>

Mixed Medicines: Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia

Mixed Medicines: Health and Culture in French Colonial...

Author: Sokhieng Au
ISBN: 9780226031637
Format: Hardback
$210.95

Bringing together colorful historical vignettes, social and anthropological theory, and quantitative analyses, this...  Read More >>

Medicine in the Remote and Rural North, 1800-2000

Medicine in the Remote and Rural North, 1800-2000

Author: J T H Connor ,  Stephan Curtis
ISBN: 9781848931572
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume of thirteen essays focuses on the health and treatment of the peoples of northern Europe and North America...  Read More >>

Battlefield Medicine: A History of the Military Ambulance from the Napoleonic Wars Through World War I

Battlefield Medicine: A History of the Military Ambulance...

Author: John S. Haller
ISBN: 9780809330409
Format: Paperback
$50.03

"In this first history of the military ambulance, historian John S. Haller Jr. documents the development of medical...  Read More >>

Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: An Annotated Translation of Huang Di's Inner Classic - Basic Questions

Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: An Annotated Translation of...

Author: Paul U Unschuld (Institute for the History of Medicine) ,  Hermann Tessenow
ISBN: 9786613291776
Format: Electronic book text
$617.76

A foundation of Chinese life sciences and medicine, this title is available in an annotated English translation....  Read More >>

Freie Fundamente

Freie Fundamente

Author: Joseph Richter
ISBN: 9786613764461
Format: Electronic book text
$127.54

So wie es in der Psychotherapie verschiedene Schulen gibt, welche sich gerade in ihren theoretischen Grundannahmen...  Read More >>

Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine: The United States, France, and Japan

Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine: The...

Author: Marc A. Rodwin (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Suffolk University)
ISBN: 9780199755486
Format: Hardback
$76.95

As most Americans know, conflicts of interest riddle the US health care system. They result from physicians practicing...  Read More >>

History of the Medical College of Georgia

History of the Medical College of Georgia

Author: Phinizy Spalding
ISBN: 9780820340401
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Spalding traces the development of Georgia’s oldest medical school from the initial plans of a small group of physicians...  Read More >>

The History of the Medical College of Georgia

The History of the Medical College of Georgia

Author: Phinizy Spalding
ISBN: 9780820340418
Format: Hardback
$118.67

Spalding traces the development of Georgia’s oldest medical school from the initial plans of a small group of physicians...  Read More >>

Academic General Practice in the UK Medical Schools, 1948-2000: A Short History

Academic General Practice in the UK Medical Schools,...

Author: John Howie, PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. PH.D. ,  Michael Whitfield
ISBN: 9786613221650
Format: Electronic book text
$104.10

The first collective record of the evolution of general medical practice as an academic discipline over half a century....  Read More >>

Diary

Diary

Author: Richard Selzer
ISBN: 9780300124613
Format: Hardback
$73.92

Reveals the author's successes and regrets, as well as the humour and sadness that surround him, with the same empathy...  Read More >>

Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France: Stories of Gender and Reproduction

Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France: Stories of Gender...

Author: Kirk D. Read ,  Professor Allyson M. Poska
ISBN: 9780754666325
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Brings together literary and medical texts that represent a range of views, from lyric poets, satirists and polemicists,...  Read More >>

Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America

Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Tanya Sheehan (William R. Kenan, Jr. Associate Professor and Chair of Art, Colby College)
ISBN: 9780271037929
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Examines the relationship between photography and medicine in American culture. Focuses on the American Civil War...  Read More >>

Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature...

Author: L. Noble
ISBN: 9781349292677
Format: Paperback
$199.00

The human body, traded, fragmented and ingested is at the centre of Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English...  Read More >>

Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States

Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization...

Author: Mark Largent
ISBN: 9780813549989
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Most closely associated with the Nazis and World War II atrocities, eugenics is sometimes described as a government-orchestrated...  Read More >>

Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature...

Author: L. Noble
ISBN: 9780230110274
Format: Hardback
$199.00

The human body, traded, fragmented and ingested is at the centre of Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English...  Read More >>

Frauengesundheit: Ein Versorgungskonzept zur Förderung der physiologischen Geburt

Frauengesundheit: Ein Versorgungskonzept zur Förderung...

Author: Nicola H. Bauer ,  "Beate A. SchÃ""cking"
ISBN: 9783899717969
Format: Paperback
$129.35

Midwife-led concepts of care in hospitals exist worldwide in different organizational forms. This title examines...  Read More >>

Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank

Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden...

Author: Randi Hutter Epstein
ISBN: 9780393339062
Format: Paperback
$22.95

Making and having babies-what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver-have mystified women and men...  Read More >>

House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox

House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox

Author: William H Foege (Emory University)
ISBN: 9786613277961
Format: Electronic book text
$94.88

A story of courage and risk-taking, House on Fire tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred...  Read More >>

Medical University of South Carolina

Medical University of South Carolina

Author: Susan Dick Hoffius ,  E. Brooke Fox
ISBN: 9780738579962
Format: Paperback
$58.05

The Medical University of South Carolina, founded in Charleston in 1824 by the Medical Society of South Carolina,...  Read More >>

On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers. Illustrated, Etc.

On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers....

Author: Kate Marsden
ISBN: 9781241237462
Format: Paperback
$86.46

Title: On Sledge and Horseback to outcast Siberian Lepers. Illustrated, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical...  Read More >>

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