History of medicine books

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Author: Rebecca Skloot
ISBN: 9781594134326
Format: Paperback
$44.85

Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human...  Read More >>

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Author: Rebecca Skloot ,  Rebecca Skloot
ISBN: 9781400052189
Format: Paperback
$42.24

Acclaimed author Skloot brilliantly weaves together the story of Henrietta Lacks--a woman whose cells have been...  Read More >>

Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Author: Rebecca Skloot
ISBN: 9781613831199
Format: Hardback
$95.17

Acclaimed author Skloot brilliantly weaves together the story of Henrietta Lacks--a woman whose cells have been...  Read More >>

The Art and Science of Healing Since Antiquity

The Art and Science of Healing Since Antiquity

Author: Daya Ram Varma ,  Daya Ram Varma
ISBN: 9781456842109
Format: Paperback
$63.33

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The Art and Science of Healing Since Antiquity

The Art and Science of Healing Since Antiquity

Author: Daya Ram Varma
ISBN: 9781456842116
Format: Hardback
$92.37

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Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted

Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William...

Author: Gerald Imber
ISBN: 9781607148586
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Brilliant, driven, but haunted by demons, William Stewart Halsted took surgery from a horrific, dangerous practice...  Read More >>

War Wounds: Medicine and the Trauma of Conflict

War Wounds: Medicine and the Trauma of Conflict

Author: Ashley Ekins ,  Elizabeth Stewart
ISBN: 9781877568886
Format: Undefined
$9.99

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

What Killed Jane Austen?: And Other Medical Mysteries

What Killed Jane Austen?: And Other Medical Mysteries...

Author: George Biro ,  Jim Leavesley
ISBN: 9780752459103
Format: Paperback
$23.26

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A Practice of Physic

A Practice of Physic

Author: William P Dewees ,  William P Dewees
ISBN: 9781429043847
Format: Paperback
$68.51

Cited in: Cordasco. American 1820-1910, 30-0248  Read More >>

War, Disability and Rehabilitation in Britain: 'soul of a Nation'

War, Disability and Rehabilitation in Britain: 'soul...

Author: Julie Anderson (Professor of Modern History) ,  Bertrand Taithe
ISBN: 9780719082504
Format: Hardback
$183.99

Through a series of thematic chapters, this book focuses on the nature of injured and disabled bodies in relation...  Read More >>

Epidemic: A Collision Of Power, Privilege, And Public Health

Epidemic: A Collision Of Power, Privilege, And Public...

Author: David Dekok
ISBN: 9780762760084
Format: Hardback
$46.99

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Alfred Blalock, Helen Taussig, & Vivien Thomas: Mending Children's Hearts

Alfred Blalock, Helen Taussig, & Vivien Thomas: Mending...

Author: Lisa Yount
ISBN: 9781604136586
Format: Hardback
$92.40

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A Memoir On The Life And Character Of Philip Syng Physick, M.D.

A Memoir On The Life And Character Of Philip Syng Physick,...

Author: Jacob Randolph
ISBN: 9781446053256
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

Johannes Hartlieb Krauterbuch

Johannes Hartlieb Krauterbuch

Author: Gerold Hayer ,  Bernhard Schnell
ISBN: 9783895007606
Format: Hardback
$443.52

English description: Before the middle of the fifteenth century the Munich physician and author wrote an herbal...  Read More >>

Ancient Medical Technology: From Herbs to Scalpels

Ancient Medical Technology: From Herbs to Scalpels

Author: Michael Woods ,  Mary B Woods
ISBN: 9780761365228
Format: Hardback
$84.30

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The Emperor of All Maladies

The Emperor of All Maladies

Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
ISBN: 9780007250912
Format: Hardback
$92.40

A magnificent, beautifully written biography of cancer - from its first documented appearances thousands of years...  Read More >>

Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America

Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America...

Author: Sara Dubow (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Williams College)
ISBN: 9780195323436
Format: Hardback
$68.95

Ourselves Unborn examines how, from the nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century, Americans with...  Read More >>

Physician to the Fleet: The Life and Times of Thomas Trotter, 1760-1832

Physician to the Fleet: The Life and Times of Thomas...

Author: Brian Vale ,  Griffith Edwards
ISBN: 9781843836049
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Details Thomas Trotter's important contributions, as a naval surgeon and after, to the eradication of scurvy and...  Read More >>

Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century

Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth...

Author: A. Gillette
ISBN: 9780230108455
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Gillette shows that the sciences of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology were undergoing rapid development in...  Read More >>

Portrayals of Medicine, Physicians, Patients, and Illnesses in French Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present: A Collection of Essays

Portrayals of Medicine, Physicians, Patients, and Illnesses...

Author: Lison Baselis-Bitoun ,  Ji-hyun Philippa Kim
ISBN: 9780773415126
Format: Hardback
$369.47

A collection of essays that examines the various representations of medicine in French Literature, from the Middle...  Read More >>

Das Wissenschaftliche Gesamtwerk Des Jenaer Nervenarztes Hans Berger

Das Wissenschaftliche Gesamtwerk Des Jenaer Nervenarztes...

Author: Harald Kluge ,  Joachim Bauer
ISBN: 9783515097871
Format: Paperback
$192.72

English summary: The work of the internationally recognized neurologist Hans Berger, which is often reduced to the...  Read More >>

Plagues in World History

Plagues in World History

Author: John Aberth
ISBN: 9780742557055
Format: Hardback
$81.95

Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including...  Read More >>

The History of the Medical College of Georgia

The History of the Medical College of Georgia

Author: Phinizy Spalding
ISBN: 9786613586025
Format: Electronic book text
$79.04

<p>Phinizy Spalding traces the development of Georgia's oldest medical school from the initial plans of a small...  Read More >>

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