History of medicine books

46532 books were found.

Microbes Fight Back: Antibiotic Resistance

Microbes Fight Back: Antibiotic Resistance

Author: Laura Bowater (University of East Anglia, UK)
ISBN: 9781782621676
Format: Paperback
$56.90

Antibiotics are familiar drugs to us all, this topical popular science book considers the past, present and uncertain...  Read More >>

The Doctor in the Victorian Novel: Family Practices

The Doctor in the Victorian Novel: Family Practices...

Author: Tabitha Sparks
ISBN: 9781138275409
Format: Paperback
$112.00

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Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction

Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective...

Author: Christopher Pittard
ISBN: 9781138276260
Format: Paperback
$116.00

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Arnau de Villeneuve: I. Un Spirituel Soupconne d'Heresie

Arnau de Villeneuve: I. Un Spirituel Soupconne d'Heresie...

Author: Jean Canteins ,  Arnau De Villeneuve
ISBN: 9782251420578
Format: Paperback
$168.96

Arnau de Vilanova was one of the most singular thinkers of this time, producing erudite theological treatises that...  Read More >>

Tu Youyou And The Discovery Of Artemisinin: 2015 Nobel Laureate In Physiology Or Medicine

Tu Youyou And The Discovery Of Artemisinin: 2015 Nobel...

Author: Yi Rao (Peking Univ, China) ,  Daqing Zhang (Peking Univ, China)
ISBN: 9789813109889
Format: Hardback
$144.90

Nobel laureate Tu Youyou won the 2015 prize for Medicine/Physiology for the discovery of artemisinin, a drug therapy...  Read More >>

Reinventing Hippocrates

Reinventing Hippocrates

Author: David Cantor
ISBN: 9781138263550
Format: Paperback
$120.00

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Crafting Immunity: Working Histories of Clinical Immunology

Crafting Immunity: Working Histories of Clinical Immunology...

Author: Jennifer Keelan ,  Kenton Kroker
ISBN: 9781138265295
Format: Paperback
$112.00

Working outside the narrow confines of laboratory histories, Crafting Immunity is the first attempt to set the problems...  Read More >>

The Great Nation in Decline: Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in Revolutionary France c.1750–1850

The Great Nation in Decline: Sex, Modernity and Health...

Author: Sean M. Quinlan
ISBN: 9781138265486
Format: Paperback
$112.00

Studies how doctors responded to deep-seated fears about nervous degeneracy and population decline in France between...  Read More >>

Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth...

Author: James Kelly ,  Fiona Clark
ISBN: 9781138261976
Format: Paperback
$73.99

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

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

Author: Kirk D. Read
ISBN: 9781138262027
Format: Paperback
$120.00

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

'Regimental Practice' by John Buchanan, M.D.: An Eighteenth-Century Medical Diary and Manual

'Regimental Practice' by John Buchanan, M.D.: An Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Paul Kopperman
ISBN: 9781138262201
Format: Paperback
$112.00

Based on the author's observations while surgeon to a cavalry regiment serving in Flanders 1742-45, during the War...  Read More >>

The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750-1800

The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and...

Author: Matthew D. Eddy
ISBN: 9781138265646
Format: Paperback
$112.00

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Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment: 'Industry, Knowledge and Humanity'

Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment:...

Author: Roger L. Emerson
ISBN: 9781138265882
Format: Paperback
$112.00

The Scottish Enlightenment was a period of intellectual and scientific progress in a country previously considered...  Read More >>

Pastoral Drama and Healing in Early Modern Italy

Pastoral Drama and Healing in Early Modern Italy

Author: Federico Schneider
ISBN: 9781138265851
Format: Paperback
$112.00

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Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England

Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and...

Author: Jennifer C. Vaught
ISBN: 9781138266063
Format: Paperback
$112.00

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Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture

Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture...

Author: Kathleen P. Long
ISBN: 9781138266070
Format: Paperback
$120.00

In the wake of new interest in alchemy as more significant than a bizarre aberration in rational Western European...  Read More >>

SickKids: The History of the Hospital for Sick Children

SickKids: The History of the Hospital for Sick Children...

Author: David Wright ,  Mary Jo Haddad
ISBN: 9781442647237
Format: Hardback
$79.99

David Wright's SickKids: The History of the Hospital for Sick Children chronicles the remarkable history of SickKids,...  Read More >>

The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New...

Author: Donald R Kirsch ,  Ogi Ogas
ISBN: 9781665287449
Format: Audio
$42.21

The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.  Read More >>

The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New...

Author: Donald R Kirsch ,  Ogi Ogas
ISBN: 9781665287432
Format: Audio
$42.21

The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.  Read More >>

The Drug Hunters Lib/E: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

The Drug Hunters Lib/E: The Improbable Quest to Discover...

Author: Donald R Kirsch ,  Ogi Ogas
ISBN: 9781665287425
Format: Audio
$42.21

The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity--by...  Read More >>

Yellow Fever Years: An Epidemiology of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

Yellow Fever Years: An Epidemiology of Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Ingrid Gessner
ISBN: 9783631674123
Format: Hardback
$160.43

Rooted in American Studies and the Medical Humanities, the study is situated at the interface of American medicine,...  Read More >>

Staging Anatomies: Dissection and Spectacle in Early Stuart Tragedy

Staging Anatomies: Dissection and Spectacle in Early...

Author: Hillary M. Nunn
ISBN: 9781138264267
Format: Paperback
$120.00

Hillary M. Nunn here traces the connections between the London public's interest in medical dissection and the changing...  Read More >>

Food in Shakespeare: Early Modern Dietaries and the Plays

Food in Shakespeare: Early Modern Dietaries and the...

Author: Joan Fitzpatrick
ISBN: 9781138265066
Format: Paperback
$120.00

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With Words and Knives: Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England

With Words and Knives: Learning Medical Dispassion in...

Author: Lynda Payne
ISBN: 9781138257177
Format: Paperback
$112.00

The practice of medicine in the days before the development of anaesthetics could often be a brutal and painful...  Read More >>

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