History of medicine books

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Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Source Analysis

Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Source Analysis...

Author: Olivia Weisser
ISBN: 9780367557225
Format: Paperback
$73.99

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

Nursing, Policy and Politics in Twentieth-century Chile: Reforming Health, 1920s-1990s

Nursing, Policy and Politics in Twentieth-century Chile:...

Author: Markus Thulin ,  Ricardo A. Ayala
ISBN: 9783030908379
Format: Paperback
$343.17

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

Modern Healthcare Heroes: The Legacy of the Student National Medical Association

Modern Healthcare Heroes: The Legacy of the Student...

Author: Jeffrey E Sterling, MD MPH
ISBN: 9798350942767
Format: Hardback
$263.97

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

American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within

American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the...

Author: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
ISBN: 9781517916237
Format: Hardback
$270.00

Examining the racial underpinnings of food, microbial medicine, and disgust in America American Disgust shows...  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 ,  Caroline Crampton
ISBN: 9798212902144
Format: Audio
$110.85

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

Death to Beauty: The Transformative History of Botox

Death to Beauty: The Transformative History of Botox...

Author: Eugene M Helveston ,  Kyle Snyder
ISBN: 9798874764371
Format: Audio
$105.57

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

Death to Beauty: The Transformative History of Botox

Death to Beauty: The Transformative History of Botox...

Author: Eugene M Helveston ,  Kyle Snyder
ISBN: 9798874764388
Format: Audio
$121.31

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

Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean

Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and...

Author: Justin K. Stearns ,  Dmitrii Galcin
ISBN: 9798887195582
Format: Hardback
$79.20

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: Botanical and Medical Literature of Nineteenth-century Bengal

Indian Medicinal Plants in the Shifting Terrains of...

Author: Nupur DasGupta
ISBN: 9789356874770
Format: Paperback
$86.99

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

Medecine Et Tragedie En Grece Antique: Scripta Minora 1961-2023

Medecine Et Tragedie En Grece Antique: Scripta Minora...

Author: Jacques Jouanna
ISBN: 9782251454979
Format: Paperback
$456.72

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

Goethe als Naturforscher im Urteil der Naturwissenschaft und Medizin des 19. Jahrhunderts: Themen, Texte, Titel

Goethe als Naturforscher im Urteil der Naturwissenschaft...

Author: Dietrich von Engelhardt ,  Ulrike von Engelhardt
ISBN: 9783662681251
Format: Hardback
$316.77

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

Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America

Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America

Author: Beth Linker
ISBN: 9780691235493
Format: Hardback
$54.99

The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America — from eugenics and...  Read More >>

Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War

Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America...

Author: Susan E Lederer ,  Lisa S Ware
ISBN: 9798874778446
Format: Audio
$105.57

"The first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the period ""before Tuskegee""--from...  Read More >>

Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War

Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America...

Author: Susan E Lederer ,  Lisa S Ware
ISBN: 9798874778453
Format: Audio
$121.31

"The first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the period ""before Tuskegee""--from...  Read More >>

This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women

This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women

Author: Marieke Bigg
ISBN: 9781529377729
Format: Paperback
$26.99

The past, present and future of the sexism inherent in medicine and medical research - and how to change it  Read More >>

Bombay Presidency, 1850-1920: Disease, Sanitation and Public Health Personalities

Bombay Presidency, 1850-1920: Disease, Sanitation and...

Author: Mridula Ramanna
ISBN: 9789358521511
Format: Hardback
$145.07

This work focuses on the major health and sanitation problems of the nineteenth century: the health of the European...  Read More >>

Die Lehren des Pulses vom Ufer des Sees: Bin Hu Mai Xue

Die Lehren des Pulses vom Ufer des Sees: Bin Hu Mai...

Author: Lucas Stasinski ,  Helge Winckler
ISBN: 9798870873862
Format: Paperback
$104.81

"Von Li Shi Zhen im Jahre 1564 erstmals ver�ffentlicht, dient das Bin Hu Mai Xue bis in die Gegenwart chinesischen...  Read More >>

The Lung Block: Tuberculosis and Contested Spaces in Early Twentieth-Century New York

The Lung Block: Tuberculosis and Contested Spaces in...

Author: Adrienne deNoyelles
ISBN: 9780822947868
Format: Hardback
$132.00

"Public health, housing, poverty, and immigration dominated social and political discourse in early twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section...

Author: Rachel Somerstein
ISBN: 9780063264410
Format: Hardback
$84.48

"An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America--the cesarean...  Read More >>

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