History of medicine books

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Art, Medicine, and Femininity: Visualising the Morphine Addict in Paris, 1870–1914

Art, Medicine, and Femininity: Visualising the Morphine...

Author: Hannah Halliwell
ISBN: 9780228019909
Format: Hardback
$168.19

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Ancient Medicine

Ancient Medicine

Author: Vivian Nutton (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781032282824
Format: Paperback
$79.99

The third edition of this magisterial account of medicine in the Greek and Roman worlds has been updated to incorporate...  Read More >>

Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc

Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and...

Author: Dr Claire Shaw ,  Dr Anna Toropova
ISBN: 9781350271265
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The project to create a ‘New Man’ and ‘New Woman’ initiated in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc constituted...  Read More >>

Indian Club Swinging and the Birth of Global Fitness: Mugdars, Masculinity and Marketing

Indian Club Swinging and the Birth of Global Fitness:...

Author: Conor Heffernan (Ulster University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350401624
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Emerging in colonial India, the fitness fad that was Indian Club Swinging became a global exercise practice in the...  Read More >>

The Public Health Approach: Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19

The Public Health Approach: Population Thinking from...

Author: Alfredo Morabia
ISBN: 9781421446783
Format: Paperback
$68.99

"""This book tells the history of how the field of public health arose and developed via a distinctive way of approaching...  Read More >>

Jahrbuch Literatur Und Medizin: Band XIV: Words of Illness, Words of Healing in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

Jahrbuch Literatur Und Medizin: Band XIV: Words of Illness,...

Author: Vincenzo Damiani ,  Florian Steger
ISBN: 9783825395537
Format: Hardback
$108.24

The fourteenth volume of the 'Jahrbuch', edited by Vincenzo Damiani and Florian Steger, focuses on a historically...  Read More >>

Medicine without Meds: Transforming Patient Care with Digital Therapies

Medicine without Meds: Transforming Patient Care with...

Author: Dean Ho ,  Yoann Sapanel
ISBN: 9781421447032
Format: Hardback
$75.99

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Prognostic. Regimen in Acute Diseases. The Sacred Disease. The Art. Breaths. Law. Decorum. Dentition

Prognostic. Regimen in Acute Diseases. The Sacred Disease....

Author: Hippocrates ,  Paul Potter
ISBN: 9780674997585
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Volume II of the Loeb Hippocrates presents eight works by or attributed to the “Father of Medicine” that illustrate...  Read More >>

Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness

Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots...

Author: Steven Lesk, M.D.
ISBN: 9781633889286
Format: Hardback
$59.99

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A History of Western Science: The Basics

A History of Western Science: The Basics

Author: Rienk Vermij
ISBN: 9781032346502
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A History of Western Science: The Basics, offers a short introduction to the history of western science that is...  Read More >>

A History of Western Science: The Basics

A History of Western Science: The Basics

Author: Rienk Vermij
ISBN: 9781032346489
Format: Hardback
$273.00

A History of Western Science: The Basics, offers a short introduction to the history of western science that is...  Read More >>

Revolução Científica Simplificada

Revolução Científica Simplificada

Author: Dr Samuel James
ISBN: 9798223865612
Format: Paperback
$26.37

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The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics

The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons from 25 Years of Covering...

Author: Donald G McNeil
ISBN: 9781668001394
Format: Hardback
$76.53

Award-winning New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil, Jr. reflects on twenty-five years of covering pandemics--how...  Read More >>

Witches, Midwives & Nurses, 2nd Ed: A History of Women Healers

Witches, Midwives & Nurses, 2nd Ed: A History of Women...

Author: Deirdre English ,  Barbara Ehrenreich
ISBN: 9798874684280
Format: Audio
$110.85

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism,...  Read More >>

Witches, Midwives & Nurses, 2nd Ed: A History of Women Healers

Witches, Midwives & Nurses, 2nd Ed: A History of Women...

Author: Deirdre English ,  Barbara Ehrenreich
ISBN: 9798874684273
Format: Audio
$65.97

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism,...  Read More >>

Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State

Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care...

Author: Colleen M. Grogan (Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor, Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor, The University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9780199812233
Format: Hardback
$74.95

"A sweeping history of the American health care state that reveals the public has been intentionally misled about...  Read More >>

William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician

William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician...

Author: Emma K. Sutton
ISBN: 9780226828985
Format: Paperback
$49.95

The first book to map William James’s preoccupation with medical ideas, concerns, and values across the breadth...  Read More >>

William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician

William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician...

Author: Emma K. Sutton
ISBN: 9780226828961
Format: Hardback
$163.95

The first book to map William James’s preoccupation with medical ideas, concerns, and values across the breadth...  Read More >>

Feminist Mental Health Activism in England, c. 1968-95

Feminist Mental Health Activism in England, c. 1968-95...

Author: Kate Mahoney
ISBN: 9781526162267
Format: Hardback
$195.00

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Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects

Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science...

Author: Kirsten Moore-Sheeley
ISBN: 9781421447575
Format: Hardback
$114.00

"""This book tracks the life history of insecticide-treated nets to explain how and why this technology became a...  Read More >>

Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity

Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity...

Author: Emma Cheatle
ISBN: 9781032389943
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity returns to and reflects on the spatial and architectural...  Read More >>

Art of Illness: Malingering and Inventing Health Conditions

Art of Illness: Malingering and Inventing Health Conditions...

Author: Wendy J. Turner (Augusta University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032589619
Format: Hardback
$284.00

There is a long history of inventing illness, such as pretending to be sick for attention, or accusing others of...  Read More >>

The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics

The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons from 25 Years of Covering...

Author: Donald G McNeil
ISBN: 9781797169286
Format: Audio
$105.57

Award-winning New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil, Jr. reflects on twenty-five years of covering pandemics--how...  Read More >>

Aerial Nurse Corps of America: Lauretta Schimmoler and Leora Stroup Pilot-in AirEvac

Aerial Nurse Corps of America: Lauretta Schimmoler and...

Author: Cynthia Broze
ISBN: 9780982650943
Format: Hardback
$100.29

A group of pilots and nurses in 1936 battle against the National Nursing Organizations, the Red Cross, and the Military...  Read More >>

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