History of medicine books

Amid criticism of medicine's scientific rigor and patient care, this book offers a philosophical examination of...  Read More >>

This book sheds new light on the history of exercise physiology and how it essentially grew, thanks to the work...  Read More >>

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The woman scientist who saved Americans from thalidomideIn the early 1960s, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey of the U.S....  Read More >>

This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection of sources...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Galen provides a comprehensive overview of the life, work, and legacy of Galen (129--c. 216...  Read More >>

Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with nurses and governmental representatives, this book explores...  Read More >>

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Since 1964, the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) has championed recruitment, retention, and graduation...  Read More >>

Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice casts fresh light the practicality and applicability of medical knowledge...  Read More >>

Examining the racial underpinnings of food, microbial medicine, and disgust in America American Disgust shows...  Read More >>

Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography...  Read More >>

Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography...  Read More >>

"In the 1970s, Dr. Alan Scott sought to selectively weaken eye muscles to treat strabismus (when one or both eyes...  Read More >>

"In the 1970s, Dr. Alan Scott sought to selectively weaken eye muscles to treat strabismus (when one or both eyes...  Read More >>

A revisionist biography of Andreas Vesalius — the father of modern anatomy — as deeply shaped by Renaissance culture....  Read More >>

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ENGHow did pre-modern scholars conceive of contagion and the transmissibility of disease in general? Infectious...  Read More >>

Indian Medicinal Plants in the Shifting Terrains of Science traces the medical and botanical reconnaissance of indigenous...  Read More >>

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Ce volume de Scripta minora reunit l'ensemble des articles scientifiques de Jacques Jouanna (Nancy, 27 mai 1935),...  Read More >>

The secret history of the body's most fascinating organ: the gut  Read More >>

Goethe als Naturforscher findet bei deutschen und ausländischen Naturforschern und Medizinern des 19. Jahrhunderts...  Read More >>

But the potential power of nursing to create a healthier, more just world endures.The story of nursing is complicated....  Read More >>