History of medicine books

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The Art of JAMA: Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association, Volume III

The Art of JAMA: Covers and Essays from The Journal...

Author: M. Therese Southgate (, The Journal of the American Medical Association) ,  Southgate, Lesley
ISBN: 9780199753833
Format: Hardback
$237.47

The Art of JAMA, Vol. III contains selected covers from the Journal of the American Medical Association, with accompanying...  Read More >>

Medical Writing in Early Modern English

Medical Writing in Early Modern English

Author: Irma Taavitsainen (University of Helsinki) ,  Päivi Pahta (University of Tampere, Finland)
ISBN: 9780511921193
Format: Undefined
$435.60

Provides a new perspective on the evolution of the language of medicine, based on a large electronic corpus of medical...  Read More >>

Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980

Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights...

Author: Rebecca M. Kluchin
ISBN: 9780813549996
Format: Paperback
$71.15

The 1960s revolutionized American contraceptive practice. Diaphragms, jellies, and condoms with high failure rates...  Read More >>

Something in the Ether: A Bicentennial History of Massachusetts General Hospital, 1811-2011

Something in the Ether: A Bicentennial History of Massachusetts...

Author: Webster Bull ,  Martha Bull
ISBN: 9780983098805
Format: Hardback
$79.20

This sweeping narrative history, drawn from archival resources and more than 100 personal interviews, traces the...  Read More >>

Private Practices: Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality, and American Liberalism

Private Practices: Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science...

Author: Naoko Wake
ISBN: 9780813549583
Format: Hardback
$145.20

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Was Ist Gesundheit?: Antworten Aus Jahrhunderten

Was Ist Gesundheit?: Antworten Aus Jahrhunderten

Author: Klaus Bergdolt ,  Ingo F Herrmann
ISBN: 9783515098366
Format: Paperback
$97.68

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Le Diagnostic Par Les Pouls En Chine Et En Europe: Une Histoire de la Sphygmologie Des Origines Au Xviiie Siecle

Le Diagnostic Par Les Pouls En Chine Et En Europe: Une...

Author: Eric Marie ,  Eric Marie
ISBN: 9782817800097
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Cet ouvrage porte sur un aspect particulier de l'histoire de la medecine: la sphygmologie ou diagnostic par la palpation...  Read More >>

Feminine Touch: History of Women in Osteopathic Medicine

Feminine Touch: History of Women in Osteopathic Medicine...

Author: Thomas A Quinn, DO, FAOCOPM
ISBN: 9781935503132
Format: Paperback
$92.27

In 1892, Andrew Taylor Still did the unimaginable when he accepted women and men equally in his newly opened American...  Read More >>

War Wounds: Medicine and the Trauma of Conflict

War Wounds: Medicine and the Trauma of Conflict

Author: Ashley Ekins ,  Elizabeth Stewart
ISBN: 9781921497872
Format: Hardback
$49.99

This book is a collection of chapters by historians, medical practitioners and researchers, former and serving military...  Read More >>

The Deadly Dinner Party: and Other Medical Detective Stories

The Deadly Dinner Party: and Other Medical Detective...

Author: Jonathan A. Edlow
ISBN: 9780300171266
Format: Paperback
$44.88

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Author: Rebecca Skloot
ISBN: 9789573267669
Format: Paperback
$104.81

Traditional Chinese edition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. This is an incredible journey of one woman's...  Read More >>

Biographical Dictionary of American Physicians of African Ancestry, 1800-1920

Biographical Dictionary of American Physicians of African...

Author: Geraldine Rhoades Beckford
ISBN: 9780983115144
Format: Hardback
$330.00

Presents biographical information on physicians of African ancestry who practiced in the United States or taught...  Read More >>

Twenty-Six Portland Place: The Early Years of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Twenty-Six Portland Place: The Early Years of the Royal...

Author: Gordon C. Cook
ISBN: 9781846194856
Format: Hardback
$305.99

Twenty-Six Portland Place is a ground-breaking exploration of the early years of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine...  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: 9780393064582
Format: Hardback
$65.87

From a witty, relentlessly inquisitive medical writer, an eye-opening history of pregnancy and birthing joys and...  Read More >>

Tuberculosis (1860-1960): Slovenia’s Golnik Sanatorium and TB in Central Europe

Tuberculosis (1860-1960): Slovenia’s Golnik Sanatorium...

Author: Zvonka Zupanic Slavec
ISBN: 9783631606346
Format: Hardback
$81.25

An account of the socioeconomic disease of tuberculosis in the second half of the nineteenth century and in the...  Read More >>

Bildungskonzepte Der Krankenpflege in Der Weimarer Republik: Die Schwesternschaft Des Evangelischen Diakonievereins E.V. Berlin-Zehlendorf

Bildungskonzepte Der Krankenpflege in Der Weimarer Republik:...

Author: Ulrike Gaida
ISBN: 9783515097833
Format: Paperback
$234.96

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Pox: An American History

Pox: An American History

Author: Michael Willrich ,  K Todd Freeman
ISBN: 9781101432471
Format: Downloadable audio file
$147.71

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

Dean Winternitz: Yale Medical School's Passionate Humanist

Dean Winternitz: Yale Medical School's Passionate Humanist...

Author: Priscilla W Norton ,  Priscilla Waters Norton
ISBN: 9781453718490
Format: Paperback
$66.00

MILTON WINTERNITZ Dr. Milton Winternitz, Dean of Yale Medical School from 1920 -1935, was confident of his own wisdom...  Read More >>

Medical Aphorisms: Treatises 10-15

Medical Aphorisms: Treatises 10-15

Author: Moses Maimonides ,  Gerrit Bos
ISBN: 9780842527804
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Consists of approximately 1,500 maxims compiled by Maimonides arranges the aphorisms into twenty-five treatises,...  Read More >>

The Making of Modern Medicine: Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease

The Making of Modern Medicine: Turning Points in the...

Author: Michael Bliss
ISBN: 9780226059013
Format: Hardback
$31.95

Focusing on a few key moments in the transformation of medical care, the author reveals the way that new discoveries...  Read More >>

Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800

Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern...

Author: L. Whaley
ISBN: 9780230282919
Format: Hardback
$199.00

Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies...  Read More >>

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