History of medicine books

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Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England

Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England...
Author: S. Read ISBN: 9781137355027 Format: Hardback	$419.76
In early modern English medicine, the balance of fluids in the body was seen as key to health. Menstruation was... Read More >>

The History of Medicine

The History of Medicine
Author: C.G. Cumston ISBN: 9780415869676 Format: Paperback	$96.99
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An Account of the Nature and Medicinal Virtues of the Principal Mineral Waters of Great Britain and Ireland: And Those Most in Repute on the Continent

An Account of the Nature and Medicinal Virtues of the...
Author: John Elliot ISBN: 9781139583589 Format: Undefined	$224.40
The natural philosopher John Elliot (1747–87) published several significant scientific works in the 1780s. This... Read More >>

Medicine and the Reformation

Medicine and the Reformation
Author: Andrew Cunningham , Ole Peter Grell ISBN: 9780415869553 Format: Paperback	$67.99
Charts how both popular and official religion affected orthodox medicine and popular healers, and illustrates the... Read More >>

Bergen-belsen 1945: A Medical Student's Journal

Bergen-belsen 1945: A Medical Student's Journal
Author: David Bowen Hargrave (-) , Michael John Hargrave ISBN: 9781783262885 Format: Paperback	$44.88
Foreword by Suzanne Bardgett, Imperial War Museum. Read More >>

Observing the World through Images: Diagrams and Figures in the Early-Modern Arts and Sciences

Observing the World through Images: Diagrams and Figures...
Author: Christoph Lüthy , Nicholas Jardine ISBN: 9789004263840 Format: Hardback	$435.60
Through well-illustrated essays, Observing the World through Images explores the making and uses of printed diagrams... Read More >>

A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics: Death, Panic and Hysteria, 1830-1920

A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics: Death, Panic...
Author: Mark Honigsbaum (Queen Mary University of London) ISBN: 9781780764788 Format: Hardback	$245.81
A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics is a vital new contribution towards our understanding of European history... Read More >>

Bergen-belsen 1945: A Medical Student's Journal

Bergen-belsen 1945: A Medical Student's Journal
Author: David Bowen Hargrave (-) , Michael John Hargrave ISBN: 9781783263202 Format: Hardback	$90.56
Foreword by Suzanne Bardgett, Imperial War Museum. Read More >>

Diagnosing Giants: Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World

Diagnosing Giants: Solving the Medical Mysteries of...
Author: Philip A. Mackowiak (Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Medicine, Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA) ISBN: 9780199937776 Format: Hardback	$67.95
Diagnosing Giants provides an overview of the history of medicine through a discussion of the mysterious illnesses... Read More >>

The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease

The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious...
Author: John Rhodes ISBN: 9781137278524 Format: Hardback	$92.37
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American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System

American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed...
Author: E. Fuller Torrey (Executive Director, Executive Director, Stanley Medical Research Institute) ISBN: 9780199988716 Format: Hardback	$64.95
E. Fuller Torrey's book provides an insider's perspective on the birth of the federal mental health program. Read More >>

Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War

Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American...
Author: Margaret Humphreys (Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine, Duke University) ISBN: 9781421409993 Format: Hardback	$86.99
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Great Artists and Great Anatomists: A Biographical and Philosophical Study

Great Artists and Great Anatomists: A Biographical and...
Author: Robert Knox ISBN: 9781108065283 Format: Paperback	$67.27
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A Treatise on the Yellow Fever, as It Appeared in the Island of Dominica, in the Years 1793–4–5–6: To Which Are Added, Observations on the Bilious Remittent Fever, on Intermittents, Dysentery, and Some Other West India Diseases

A Treatise on the Yellow Fever, as It Appeared in the...
Author: James Clark ISBN: 9781108065542 Format: Paperback	$59.49
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Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry

Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization,...
Author: Matthew M. Heaton ISBN: 9780821420706 Format: Paperback	$92.27
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Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I

Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World...
Author: Research Associate Emily Mayhew (Imperial College) , E R Mayhew ISBN: 9780199322459 Format: Hardback	$89.73
The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and... Read More >>

A critical guide to the exhibition of the Royal academy

A critical guide to the exhibition of the Royal academy...
Author: Anthony Pasquin ISBN: 9785518759541 Format: Paperback	$77.50
A critical guide to the exhibition of the Royal academy, for 1796 in which all the works of merit are examined the... Read More >>

The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence

The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern...
Author: Helen King , Dr. Andrew Cunningham ISBN: 9781409463351 Format: Hardback	$336.00
By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains... Read More >>

The Institution of Science and the Science of Institutions: The Legacy of Joseph Ben-David

The Institution of Science and the Science of Institutions:...
Author: Marcel Herbst ISBN: 9789400774063 Format: Hardback	$290.37
The volume addresses the following disciplines: higher education, history and sociology of science, philosophy of... Read More >>

Hearing Voices: The Histories, Causes and Meanings of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations

Hearing Voices: The Histories, Causes and Meanings of...
Author: Simon McCarthy-Jones (Macquarie University, Sydney) ISBN: 9781107682016 Format: Paperback	$134.55
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Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health

Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and...
Author: Robert Peckham (The University of Hong Kong) ISBN: 9780415836197 Format: Hardback	$315.00
This book maps the tensions, overlaps, and contradictions within and between social and biological understandings... Read More >>

Body Failure: Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950

Body Failure: Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950
Author: Wendy Mitchinson ISBN: 9781442646261 Format: Hardback	$175.00
In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in... Read More >>

Horace Wells - On Nitrous Oxide

Horace Wells - On Nitrous Oxide
Author: Thomas Gamsjager ISBN: 9781493660230 Format: Paperback	$31.68
On 11 December 1844 Horace Wells was the first to use the gas nitrous oxide as an inhalational anaesthetic. Wells... Read More >>

Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England

Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors...
Author: Sarah Wise ISBN: 9780099541868 Format: Paperback	$32.99
Uncovers twelve shocking stories, untold for over a century and reveals the darker side of the Victorian upper and... Read More >>

The gentleman's farriery

The gentleman's farriery
Author: J Bartlet ISBN: 9785518622142 Format: Paperback	$77.50
The gentleman's farriery: or, a practical treatise on the diseases of horses wherein the best writers on the subject... Read More >>

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