History of medicine books

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A Body Made of Glass Lib/E: A Cultural History of Hypochondria

A Body Made of Glass Lib/E: A Cultural History of Hypochondria...

Author: Caroline Crampton
ISBN: 9798212902120
Format: Audio
$190.05

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: 9798874764364
Format: Audio
$176.85

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

Hippocratis De affectionibus / Hippocrates, On Affections

Hippocratis De affectionibus / Hippocrates, On Affections...

Author: Pilar Pérez Cañizares
ISBN: 9783111000299
Format: Hardback
$469.89

A considerable number of ancient medical texts has not been yet edited drawing on the whole manuscript tradition....  Read More >>

Why Mothers Died and How their Lives are Saved: The Story of Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths

Why Mothers Died and How their Lives are Saved: The...

Author: James Owen Drife (University of Leeds) ,  Gwyneth Lewis (University College London)
ISBN: 9781009218795
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Explores how the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths reduced the maternal mortality rate and improved safety...  Read More >>

Mind Museums: Former Asylums and the Heritage of Mental Health

Mind Museums: Former Asylums and the Heritage of Mental...

Author: Francesca Lanz
ISBN: 9781032193984
Format: Hardback
$103.00

Mind Museums offer a fresh perspective on the heritage of mental health, bringing museums into sharp focus by examining...  Read More >>

The Open Heart Club: A Story about Birth and Death and Cardiac Surgery

The Open Heart Club: A Story about Birth and Death and...

Author: Gabriel Brownstein
ISBN: 9781610399487
Format: Paperback
$52.77

This history of the heart and cardiac medicine--as told by a writer with a congenital heart defect--ponders issues...  Read More >>

Rickets, Race and Reproduction: Contracted Pelvis and the American Way of Birth

Rickets, Race and Reproduction: Contracted Pelvis and...

Author: Deborah Kuhn McGregor ,  Robert Kuhn McGregor
ISBN: 9781476693712
Format: Paperback
$127.60

Outlines the history of rickets, a disease commonly associated with childhood, and studies its association with...  Read More >>

Mulheres Gravidas

Mulheres Gravidas

Author: Rony Martins
ISBN: 9798321564035
Format: Paperback
$52.54

"""Mulheres Gr�vidas"" � um livro visualmente deslumbrante que retrata a beleza e a alegria da maternidade. Com...  Read More >>

Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton...

Author: Kathryn Olivarius
ISBN: 9780674295551
Format: Paperback
$38.95

In antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were...  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: 9798874778439
Format: Audio
$176.85

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

Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

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

Author: Rachel Somerstein ,  Xe Sands
ISBN: 9798874622978
Format: Audio
$124.05

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

Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

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

Author: Rachel Somerstein ,  Xe Sands
ISBN: 9798874622985
Format: Audio
$110.85

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

Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History 10th Anniversary Edition Companion and Reference

Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten...

Author: Suzanne Humphries ,  Roman Bystrianyk
ISBN: 9798986936338
Format: Paperback
$76.56

This literary and scientific work is a treasure trove of intriguing quotes, fascinating facts, and hidden histories...  Read More >>

The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield’s war on vaccines

The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield’s...

Author: Brian Deer
ISBN: 9781917189057
Format: Paperback
$33.61

A reporter uncovers the secrets behind the scientific scam of the century. The news breaks first as a tale of...  Read More >>

Learning to Lead, Learning to Care: The History of the Student National Medical Association (Snma)

Learning to Lead, Learning to Care: The History of the...

Author: Jeffrey E Sterling, MD MPH
ISBN: 9798350942729
Format: Paperback
$171.60

Since 1964, the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) has been the guardian of the recruitment, retention,...  Read More >>

Herbal Alchemy: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Healing

Herbal Alchemy: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Healing

Author: Alex Carter
ISBN: 9798869203182
Format: Paperback
$52.77

"Welcome to ""Herbal Alchemy: Exploring the Secrets of Chinese Medicine - Ancient Wisdom for Modern Healing."" In...  Read More >>

Paul and Asklepios: The Greco-Roman Quest for Healing and the Apostolic Mission

Paul and Asklepios: The Greco-Roman Quest for Healing...

Author: Professor Emeritus Christopher D. Stanley
ISBN: 9780567708151
Format: Paperback
$59.99

What role did offers of physical healing (or the hope of receiving it) play in the missionary program of the apostle...  Read More >>

Puruṣa: Personhood in Ancient India

Puruṣa: Personhood in Ancient India

Author: Matthew I. Robertson (Lecturer, Department of History, Lecturer, Department of History, Murray State University)
ISBN: 9780197693605
Format: Hardback
$228.00

"Personhood is central to the worldview of ancient India. Across voluminous texts and diverse traditions, the subject...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age

A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age

Author: Professor David T. Mitchell (George Washington University, USA) ,  Sharon L. Snyder
ISBN: 9781350436671
Format: Paperback
$52.99

If eugenics -- the science of eliminating kinds of undesirable human beings from the species record -- came to overdetermine...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century

A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth...

Author: Dr D. Christopher Gabbard (University of North Florida, USA) ,  Susannah B. Mintz (Skidmore College, USA)
ISBN: 9781350436732
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Eighteenth-century philosopher Edmund Burke wrote, ‘deformity is opposed, not to beauty, but to the complete, common...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance

A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance...

Author: Dr Susan Anderson (Sheffiled Hallam University, UK) ,  Dr Liam Haydon (United Kingdom Research and Innovation, UK)
ISBN: 9781350436749
Format: Paperback
$52.99

In Renaissance humanism, difference was understood through a variety of paradigms that rendered particular kinds...  Read More >>

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