History of medicine books

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This book describes the devastation wrought by epidemics from past centuries in Europe, including the Black Death,...  Read More >>

A history of disease theory, from Classical Antiquity to modern times, discussing the various supposed causes to...  Read More >>

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This book examines the social, institutional and cultural setting of medical practices in the medieval town of Montpellier...  Read More >>

Tracing how the meanings of a barbaric surgical procedure emerged, accrued, and transformed within medicine and...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the complex issues surrounding the regulation of the medical profession....  Read More >>

An engaging and surprising history of surgeries on the clitoris, revealing what the therapeutic use of female circumcision...  Read More >>

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As the Spanish empire grew, cultural ideas and practices related to sickness and health, sex, monstrosity and death...  Read More >>

The service of African Americans in defense of the Union during the Civil War required African American nurses,...  Read More >>

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In this book Floris Overduin highlights the artistic merits of Nicander’s Theriaca (2nd century BCE), a Hellenistic...  Read More >>

In the late nineteenth century it became clear to the British government that health hazards facing those serving...  Read More >>

This book contains twelve lectures that reveal how one can use the power of the mind to effect natural laws of the...  Read More >>

La presente obra, modernizada en todos sus aspectos, representa la primera edicion Facsimilar de la Crisis Medica,...  Read More >>

Psychiatry has been subject to major changes in the last 150 years. This book explores the forces that have shaped...  Read More >>

This volume offers a new cultural approach to the history of medicine and wounding in the First World War, placing...  Read More >>

The variation of mood with the seasons has been acknowledged for a long time. It was in 1984 that the term Seasonal...  Read More >>

Glasgow, University Library, MS Hunter 185 is an early fifteenth-century medical book, which contains more than...  Read More >>

Nouvelles recherches sur les découvertes microscopiques et la génération des corps organisés. Partie 1 / . Ouvrage...  Read More >>

Nouvelles recherches sur les découvertes microscopiques et la génération des corps organisés. Partie 2 / . Ouvrage...  Read More >>

Health patterns in Southeast Asia have changed profoundly over the past century. This volume provides an approach...  Read More >>

Therapeutic Revolutions examines the evolving relationship between American medicine, psychiatry, and culture from...  Read More >>