History of medicine books

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Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, new expanded edition

Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine,...

Author: Tom Koch
ISBN: 9781589484672
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, new expanded edition, is a comprehensive survey of the technology...  Read More >>

The Smile Revolution: In Eighteenth-Century Paris

The Smile Revolution: In Eighteenth-Century Paris

Author: Colin Jones CBE (Queen Mary University of London, Queen Mary University of London, Professor of History)
ISBN: 9780198715825
Format: Paperback
$38.95

The story of how we learned to smile. A unique and untold story about a facial expression at the heart of modern...  Read More >>

The Art of Making Wines From Fruits, Flowers and Herbs

The Art of Making Wines From Fruits, Flowers and Herbs...

Author: Roger Chambers ,  William Graham
ISBN: 9781545211984
Format: Paperback
$23.73

This special re-print edition of William Graham's book The Art of Making Wines From Fruits, Flowers and Herbs is...  Read More >>

Historia Naturalis Testaceorum Britanniæ, or the British Conchology: Containing the Descriptions and Other Particulars of Natural History of the Shells of Great Britain and Ireland

Historia Naturalis Testaceorum Britanniæ, or the British...

Author: Emanuel Mendes Da Costa
ISBN: 9783744657365
Format: Paperback
$92.14

Historia Naturalis Testaceorum Britanniæ, or the British Conchology - Containing the Descriptions and Other Particulars...  Read More >>

The Politics of Vaccination: A Global History

The Politics of Vaccination: A Global History

Author: Christine Holmberg ,  Stuart Blume
ISBN: 9781526110886
Format: Hardback
$195.00

Provides a comprehensive, comparative study of global vaccine politics and their social, economic and historical...  Read More >>

The Woman Who Knew Too Much, Revised Ed.: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation

The Woman Who Knew Too Much, Revised Ed.: Alice Stewart...

Author: Gayle Greene
ISBN: 9780472053568
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The life story of the epidemiologist who discovered the harmful effects of fetal X rays and other radiation exposure...  Read More >>

An Universal Dictionary of the Marine

An Universal Dictionary of the Marine

Author: William Falconer
ISBN: 9783744646246
Format: Paperback
$113.26

An Universal Dictionary of the Marine is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1780. Hansebooks...  Read More >>

The Woman Who Knew Too Much, Revised Ed.: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation

The Woman Who Knew Too Much, Revised Ed.: Alice Stewart...

Author: Gayle Greene
ISBN: 9780472073566
Format: Hardback
$224.27

The life story of the epidemiologist who discovered the harmful effects of fetal X rays and other radiation exposure...  Read More >>

Bacteriology in British India: Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics

Bacteriology in British India: Laboratory Medicine and...

Author: Pratik Chakrabarti
ISBN: 9781580465908
Format: Paperback
$97.55

The first book to provide a social and cultural history of bacteriology in colonial India, situating it at the confluence...  Read More >>

Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science

Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise...

Author: Shauna Devine
ISBN: 9781469633374
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Offene Altenhilfe in Frankfurt Am Main 1945 Bis 1985

Offene Altenhilfe in Frankfurt Am Main 1945 Bis 1985...

Author: Kristina Lena Matron
ISBN: 9783515116596
Format: Paperback
$221.76

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From Physick to Pharmacology: Five Hundred Years of British Drug Retailing

From Physick to Pharmacology: Five Hundred Years of...

Author: Louise Hill Curth
ISBN: 9781138266308
Format: Paperback
$112.00

Examines the important, but neglected history of the distribution and sale of medicinal drugs in England. This book...  Read More >>

Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj

Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj

Author: Jharna Gourlay ,  Ole Peter Grell
ISBN: 9781138258549
Format: Paperback
$112.00

The life of Florence Nightingale features prominently in the body of English literature and fiction, but there is...  Read More >>

The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography

The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography

Author: Thomas Söderqvist
ISBN: 9781138264793
Format: Paperback
$112.00

Borrowing approaches and methods from cultural studies and the history, philosophy and sociology of science, this...  Read More >>

Hospital Politics in Seventeenth-Century France: The Crown, Urban Elites and the Poor

Hospital Politics in Seventeenth-Century France: The...

Author: Tim McHugh
ISBN: 9781138276000
Format: Paperback
$112.00

By reintegrating the social aspirations of urban elites into the history of French poor relief, this book shows...  Read More >>

The Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice

The Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice

Author: Barbara S. Bowers
ISBN: 9781138264748
Format: Paperback
$112.00

Using an innovative approach to evidence for the medieval hospital and medical practice, this collection of essays...  Read More >>

Contraception, Colonialism and Commerce: Birth Control in South India, 1920–1940

Contraception, Colonialism and Commerce: Birth Control...

Author: Sarah Hodges
ISBN: 9781138258822
Format: Paperback
$112.00

Birth control holds an unusual place in the history of medicine. This book outlines the early history of birth control...  Read More >>

Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe

Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe

Author: Andrew Cunningham ,  Ole Peter Grell
ISBN: 9781138265189
Format: Paperback
$120.00

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The Politics of Reproduction: Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition

The Politics of Reproduction: Race, Medicine, and Fertility...

Author: Assistant Professor of History Katherine Paugh (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
ISBN: 9780191831478
Format: Undefined
$264.00

Many British politicians, planters, and doctors attempted to exploit the fertility of Afro-Caribbean women's bodies...  Read More >>

Historical Record of the City of Savannah

Historical Record of the City of Savannah

Author: F D Lee ,  J L Agnew
ISBN: 9783744641289
Format: Paperback
$78.94

Historical record of the city of Savannah. This book, Historical record of the city of Savannah, by F.D. Lee,...  Read More >>

The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics

The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized...

Author: Stephen Coss
ISBN: 9781476783116
Format: Paperback
$60.69

The ""intelligent and sweeping"" (Booklist) story of the crucial year that prefigured the events of the American...  Read More >>

Witchcraft as a Social Diagnosis: Traditional Ghanaian Beliefs and Global Health

Witchcraft as a Social Diagnosis: Traditional Ghanaian...

Author: Roxane Richter ,  Thomas Flowers
ISBN: 9781498523189
Format: Hardback
$145.95

This book examines medical outreach in the condemned witches’ village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on clashes between...  Read More >>

Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain

Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain...

Author: Tracey Loughran (University of Essex)
ISBN: 9781107128903
Format: Hardback
$243.23

This book is a study of the formation of the medical diagnosis of shell-shock in First World War Britain. Dr Loughran...  Read More >>

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