History of medicine books

Together with other disease-modifying drugs, steroids are of value in rheumatoid arthritis, and in skin diseases....  Read More >>

Evolution of Modern Medicine: a series of lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April,...  Read More >>

Spare Parts examines major developments in the field of organ replacement that occurred in the United States over...  Read More >>

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Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic...  Read More >>

*Winner of an honorable mention from theSociety for Social Work and ResearchforOutstanding Social Work Book AwardMad...  Read More >>

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This is a book, which treats Western biomedical discourse about illness in Africa as a cultural system that constructed...  Read More >>

An annotated English translation of the autobiography of Polish microbiologist Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), with...  Read More >>

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A detailed examination of the political forces and events that shaped smallpox vaccination policy in England, Wales,...  Read More >>

International Relations in Psychiatry: Britain, Germany, and the United States to World War II addresses a crucial...  Read More >>

A history of the little-known or forgotten academic origins of modern organ transplant surgery.  Read More >>

New perspectives on the history of twentieth century public health in Europe.  Read More >>

This book examines the Rockefeller Foundation's attempts to introduce the laboratory sciences, particularly biochemistry,...  Read More >>

Based on extensive reviews of medical literature and archives, this historical perspective on medical decision making...  Read More >>

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Kim Pelis uses a wide range of French and Tunisian archival materials and a close reading of Nobel Prize-winning...  Read More >>

Famous as the catalyst of the fight or flight response, adrenaline has also received forensic attention as a perfect,...  Read More >>

There are four major dilemmas at work in the rapid decline of the United States' healthcare system: the disappearing...  Read More >>

""This book draws extensively from interviews [the author] conducted with those who lived this story. Chronic myeloid...  Read More >>

With practical remarks on the Fever of this island. And directions, for the conduct of europeans on their first...  Read More >>

Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides....  Read More >>

The Control of Epidemic Communicable Diseases in Humans discusses the issues of geographical spread of human communicable...  Read More >>

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