History of medicine books

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Viruses and Reproductive Injustice: Zika in Brazil

Viruses and Reproductive Injustice: Zika in Brazil

Author: Ilana Löwy (CERMES3: Center for research in medicine, science, health, mental health, and society)
ISBN: 9781421447919
Format: Paperback
$142.00

"""The author provides a critical, historically-informed book about the Zika pandemic and how it connects to broad...  Read More >>

Sexual Neuroses

Sexual Neuroses

Author: J T Kent
ISBN: 9789357973083
Format: Paperback
$44.01

Sexual Neuroses, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history,...  Read More >>

Ten Days in a Mad-House; or, Nellie Bly's Experience on Blackwell's Island. Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors. The Trying Ordeal of the New York World's Girl Correspondent.

Ten Days in a Mad-House; or, Nellie Bly's Experience...

Author: Nellie Bly
ISBN: 9789357977159
Format: Paperback
$44.38

Ten Days in a Mad-House; or, Nellie Bly's Experience on Blackwell's Island. Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal...  Read More >>

Feeling Dis-ease in Modern History: Experiencing Medicine and Illness

Feeling Dis-ease in Modern History: Experiencing Medicine...

Author: Rob Boddice (Tampere University, Finland) ,  Bettina Hitzer (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350228405
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book explores experiences of illness, broadly construed. It encompasses the emotional and sensory disruptions...  Read More >>

Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America

Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe...

Author: Kathleen M. Crowther
ISBN: 9781421447636
Format: Hardback
$68.99

Explores the historical roots of controversies over abortion, fetal personhood, miscarriage, and maternal mortality....  Read More >>

Victor Horsley: The World's First Neurosurgeon and His Conscience

Victor Horsley: The World's First Neurosurgeon and His...

Author: Michael J. Aminoff (University of California, San Francisco)
ISBN: 9781009069991
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Sir Victor Horsley was a pioneer of neurosurgery, performing successful operations on the brain and spinal cord...  Read More >>

Sexualizing Cancer: HPV and the Politics of Cancer Prevention

Sexualizing Cancer: HPV and the Politics of Cancer Prevention...

Author: Laura Mamo
ISBN: 9780226829296
Format: Paperback
$57.95

The virus that changed how we think about cancer and its culprits—and the vaccine that changed how we talk about...  Read More >>

The Contributions of Islamic Civilization to Medicine: The Past and the Present

The Contributions of Islamic Civilization to Medicine:...

Author: Mahmood Hai ,  John L. Esposito
ISBN: 9798350924251
Format: Paperback
$89.99

This is a wonderful, informative collection of essays tracing the roots of modern medicine back to an Islamic Golden...  Read More >>

Basic and Clinical Immunology by Names: From the Biblical Time Until the Present

Basic and Clinical Immunology by Names: From the Biblical...

Author: Michael R. Shurin ,  Galina V. Shurin
ISBN: 9783031145315
Format: Paperback
$232.85

Hundreds of eponyms are used within the field of immunology—Petri dish, Crohn’s disease, Bence Jones protein, Kupffer...  Read More >>

Sexualizing Cancer: HPV and the Politics of Cancer Prevention

Sexualizing Cancer: HPV and the Politics of Cancer Prevention...

Author: Laura Mamo
ISBN: 9780226829272
Format: Hardback
$173.95

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Aseptischer Raum 8

Aseptischer Raum 8

Author: L'Enfant Noir
ISBN: 9798876607560
Format: Paperback
$81.58

seien Sie versichert, Sie w�rden nicht mit Kinder der Herzen Sie sind zu unertr�glich schwellen die guten Schwestern...  Read More >>

An Historiography of Twentieth-Century Women’s Missionary Nursing Through the Lives of Two Sisters: Doing the Lord’s Work in Kenya and South India

An Historiography of Twentieth-Century Women’s Missionary...

Author: Sara Ashencaen Crabtree (Bournemouth University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032417967
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume draws on a trove of unpublished original material from the pre-1940s to the present to offer a unique...  Read More >>

The Contributions of Islamic Civilization to Medicine: The Past and the Pre: The Past and the Present

The Contributions of Islamic Civilization to Medicine:...

Author: Mahmood A Hai MD Fics ,  Professor John L Esposito Phd
ISBN: 9798350932553
Format: Hardback
$171.60

This is a wonderful, informative collection of essays tracing the roots of modern medicine back to an Islamic Golden...  Read More >>

Women's Health in Britain and America: Texts and Contexts

Women's Health in Britain and America: Texts and Contexts...

Author: April Patrick
ISBN: 9783031412561
Format: Paperback
$90.54

Women’s Health in Britain and America: Texts and Contexts offers an unparalleled record of women’s health in the...  Read More >>

Curiosities in Medicine: Alphabetically

Curiosities in Medicine: Alphabetically

Author: Sibylle Scholtz ,  Myriam Becker
ISBN: 9783031140044
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This anthology is devoted to the curious side of Medical History. Carl Sagan said: ”You have to know the past to...  Read More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

How digital therapies can transform your health. Traditional health care has a new ally. Some patients with sleep...  Read More >>

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