History of medicine books

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The Nursing Process as a Strategy for a (De-)Professionalization in Nursing: A Critical Analysis of the Transformation of Nursing in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s

The Nursing Process as a Strategy for a (De-)Professionalization...

Author: Jette Lange
ISBN: 9783847115861
Format: Hardback
$137.28

Historical Study on the Nursing Process: Tendencies of Deprofessionalization in Nursing  Read More >>

Female Bodies and Female Practitioners: Gynaecology, Women's Bodies, and Expertise in the Ancient to Medieval Mediterranean and Middle East

Female Bodies and Female Practitioners: Gynaecology,...

Author: Lennart Lehmhaus
ISBN: 9783161622908
Format: Paperback
$290.84

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Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War

Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War

Author: Wendy Moore
ISBN: 9781838958091
Format: Hardback
$45.00

A groundbreaking account of two suffragettes who lived wild and...  Read More >>

California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970

California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970...

Author: Eileen V. Wallis
ISBN: 9783031217166
Format: Paperback
$343.17

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Mosquito Warrior: Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the Forgotten Career of General William C. Gorgas

Mosquito Warrior: Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the...

Author: Carol R. Byerly
ISBN: 9780817361426
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Offers a long overdue and definitive biography of the life and work of General William Crawford Gorgas.  Read More >>

The Confederate Navy Medical Corps: Organization, Personnel and Actions

The Confederate Navy Medical Corps: Organization, Personnel...

Author: Guy R. Hasegawa
ISBN: 9781476694511
Format: Paperback
$68.20

The first book devoted entirely to the medical corps of the Confederate navy, this volume provides a carefully researched...  Read More >>

Secrets of the 17th Century Medicine Cabinet

Secrets of the 17th Century Medicine Cabinet

Author: Katherine Knight
ISBN: 9781803997018
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The intriguing questions of cleanliness and health in seventeenth-century England.  Read More >>

Mosquito Warrior: Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the Forgotten Career of General William C. Gorgas

Mosquito Warrior: Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the...

Author: Carol R. Byerly
ISBN: 9780817321932
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Offers a long overdue and definitive biography of the life and work of General William Crawford Gorgas.  Read More >>

Conceiving Bodies: Reproduction in Early Medieval English Medicine

Conceiving Bodies: Reproduction in Early Medieval English...

Author: Dana Oswald
ISBN: 9781526176882
Format: Hardback
$194.99

The Old English remedies for women’s reproductive ailments gesture to contemporary notions of bodily autonomy. Close...  Read More >>

The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World

The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World...

Author: Katie Barclay (University of Adelaide, Australia) ,  Peter N. Stearns (George Mason University)
ISBN: 9781032304656
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World brings together a diverse array of scholars to offer an overview...  Read More >>

Cultures of Oral Health: Discourses, Practices and Theory

Cultures of Oral Health: Discourses, Practices and Theory...

Author: Claire L. Jones ,  Barry J. Gibson
ISBN: 9781032289076
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Oral health is integral to well-being and quality of life. This important edited volume brings together leading...  Read More >>

Gabrielle Falloppia, 1522/23-1562: The Life and Work of a Renaissance Anatomist

Gabrielle Falloppia, 1522/23-1562: The Life and Work...

Author: Michael Stolberg
ISBN: 9781032149714
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Drawing on Falloppia's Observationes anatomicae of 1561 and on dozens of handwritten and published sets of student...  Read More >>

The Agony of Heroes: Medical Care for America's Besieged Legions from Bataan to Khe Sanh

The Agony of Heroes: Medical Care for America's Besieged...

Author: Thomas S Helling
ISBN: 9781594164187
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The inspiring story of the men and women who risked their lives alongside the soldiers fighting some of the most...  Read More >>

Les causeries du docteur

Les causeries du docteur

Author: D�sir� Joseph Joulin
ISBN: 9789357951685
Format: Paperback
$57.24

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Deadly Encounters: How Infectious Disease Helped Shape Australia

Deadly Encounters: How Infectious Disease Helped Shape...

Author: Peter Curson
ISBN: 9781914390258
Format: Paperback
$76.53

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines medical demography, public health history and geography...  Read More >>

A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria

A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria...

Author: Caroline Crampton
ISBN: 9780063273900
Format: Hardback
$79.17

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

Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry: A Philosophical Analysis

Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry: A Philosophical...

Author: Somogy Varga (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781009450010
Format: Hardback
$219.94

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

Legends Leaders Pioneers: Surgeons Who Built Vascular Surgery: Interviews from the Society for Vascular Surgery's History Project Work Group

Legends Leaders Pioneers: Surgeons Who Built Vascular...

Author: Walter J McCarthy ,  James S T Yao
ISBN: 9781956872507
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Vascular surgery is an extraordinary success story. The ability to reliably repair, modify or replace human blood...  Read More >>

Exercise, Respiratory and Environmental Physiology: A Tribute from the School of Milano

Exercise, Respiratory and Environmental Physiology:...

Author: Guido Ferretti
ISBN: 9783031191992
Format: Paperback
$498.96

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

Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the Battle against Thalidomide

Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the Battle against...

Author: Cheryl Krasnick Warsh (Professor of History, Professor of History, Vancouver Island University)
ISBN: 9780197632543
Format: Hardback
$63.95

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

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