History of medicine books

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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 >>

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 >>

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: 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 >>

Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees: How Stephen Smith Changed New York

Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees: How Stephen Smith Changed...

Author: John M. Harris Jr.
ISBN: 9781032603940
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (1823–1922), who was...  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of the Black Death

Encyclopedia of the Black Death

Author: Joseph P. Byrne (Belmont University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765114148
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This encyclopedia provides 300 interdisciplinary, cross-referenced entries that document the effect of the plague...  Read More >>

The Unmasking of Medicine: A Searching Look at Healthcare Today

The Unmasking of Medicine: A Searching Look at Healthcare...

Author: Ian Kennedy
ISBN: 9781032652030
Format: Hardback
$173.00

Originally published in 1981 and then as a second edition, revised and updated in 1983 and now with a new Preface...  Read More >>

The Sciences in Islamicate Societies in Context: Patronage, Education, Narratives

The Sciences in Islamicate Societies in Context: Patronage,...

Author: Sonja Brentjes
ISBN: 9781032444963
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book reprints ten papers on contextual elements of the so-called ancient sciences in Islamicate societies between...  Read More >>

Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought: (Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical...

Author: Chiara Thumiger (Cluster of Excellence Roots, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany)
ISBN: 9781009241328
Format: Hardback
$297.56

From an archaic, unfamiliar and Greek-sounding disease described by the Hippocratics, 'phrenitis', to meningitis,...  Read More >>

Mandatory Madness: Colonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness in British Mandate Palestine

Mandatory Madness: Colonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness...

Author: Chris Sandal-Wilson (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781009430371
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Bringing together Middle East studies, histories of empire, and the medical humanities, Mandatory Madness offers...  Read More >>

Collected Studies: Jewish Doctors in the Middle Ages

Collected Studies: Jewish Doctors in the Middle Ages...

Author: Joseph Shatzmiller
ISBN: 9798887193724
Format: Hardback
$150.00

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Mental Health in Late Medieval England: A Surprising History of Mental Illness and Its Treatment in Society

Mental Health in Late Medieval England: A Surprising...

Author: Michele Schindler
ISBN: 9781399092449
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Rich narrative providing a new perspective on Medieval history for a general audience.  Read More >>

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