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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), physician, feminist and champion of women's medical education, played a key role in advancing the position of women in British professional life. Elizabeth's determination to qualify as a doctor, despite the many...

From Ayurvedic texts to botanical medicines to genomics, ideas and expertise about veterinary healing have circulated between cultures through travel, trade, and conflict. In this broad-ranging and accessible study spanning 400 years of history, Susan D...

Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and promised cures for everything from corns to cancer. Combining elements of the circus, theater, vaudeville, and good...

This book, first published in 2006, is a detailed and authoritative account of the last two centuries of the development of 'Western' medicine, a tradition now important everywhere in the world. It is written by leading experts who not only describe the...

A comprehensive examination of TB. CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award 1998. The dramatic story of tuberculosis is told here in a straightforward and accessible style. It presents the stories of persons connected with the disease, either as...

The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection...

Is opium a vile curse on society, a blessed medicine from God, or possibly both? This fresh history offers surprising new insights. Opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin have destroyed, corrupted, and killed individuals, families, communities,...

The surgeon Thomas Pettigrew (1791-1865) was interested in all aspects of antiquity, and gained fame in London society through his mummy-unwrapping parties. (His History of Egyptian Mummies is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.) His...

This is a major synthesis of the knowledge and practice of early modern English medicine in its social and cultural contexts. The book vividly maps out some central areas: remedies (and how they were made credible), notions of disease, advice on...

The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of ten books. Each of the books focuses on fifty themed elements that have contributed to making the RCP what it is today,...

The medical tradition that developed in the lands of Islam during the medieval period (c. 650--1500) has, like few others, influenced the fates and fortunes of countless human beings. It is the story of contact and cultural exchange across countries and...

Before the nineteenth century, travellers who left Britain for the Americas, West Africa, India and elsewhere encountered a medical conundrum: why did they fall ill when they arrived, and why - if they recovered - did they never become so ill again? The...

This renowned history of intersex in America has been comprehensively updated to reflect recent shifts in attitudes, bioethics, and medical and legal practices.In Bodies in Doubt, Elizabeth Reis traces the changing definitions, perceptions, and medical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399005425Author Paul ChrystalFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Pen and Sword HistoryPublisher Pen and Sword HistoryWeight(grams) 152g

A disease of soil, animals, and people, anthrax has threatened lives for at least two thousand years. Farmers have long recognized its lasting virulence, but in our time, anthrax has been associated with terrorism and warfare. What accounts for this...

The third edition of this magisterial account of medicine in the Greek and Roman worlds, written by the foremost expert on the subject, has been updated to incorporate the many new discoveries made in the field over the past decade.This revised volume...

"The chapters in this volume painfully drive home the point that certainly as far as Germany is concerned, the lessons of the Third Reich have not yet been learned...These significant attempts by younger recruits to the larger medical establishment to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941142172Author William S Hughes M DFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Great Ulcer WarPublisher Great Ulcer WarWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

For centuries, many people have been convinced of the healing nature of hot mineral springs. The Romans constructed elaborate bathing facilities throughout their empire to utilise these waters. Immersion was reputed to cure a large variety of illnesses,...

Lawrence Altman has authored the only complete history of the controversial and understudied practice of self-experimentation. In telling the stories of pioneering researchers, Altman offers a history of many of the most important medical advancements in...

In recent years, the emotions have become a major, vibrant topic of research not merely in the biological and psychological sciences but throughout a wide swath of the humanities and social sciences as well. Yet, surprisingly, there is still no consensus...

18th century philosopher Edmund Burke wrote, 'deformity is opposed, not to beauty, but to the complete, common form. If one of the legs of a man be found shorter than the other, the man is deformed; because there is something wanting to complete the...

Neurology in the United Kingdom has long been defined by its distinctive blend of clinical practice and scientific inquiry. While history of the field often spotlights the National Hospital at Queen Square as its early centre, this book uncovers an...

Examines the role of an influential neurological institute in shaping a new, interdisciplinary science-neuroscience-and advancing it worldwide. Wired Together explains the rise of neuroscience by tracing the history of the Montreal Neurological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880908967Author Florence NightingaleFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Start ClassicsPublisher Start ClassicsWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813545769Author Bert HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880908974Author Florence NightingaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Start ClassicsPublisher Start ClassicsWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In 1988, the World Health Organization launched a campaign for the global eradication of polio. Today, this goal is closer than ever. Fewer than 1,300 people were paralyzed from the disease in 2004, down from approximately 350,000 in 1988.In The Death of...

Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine is a collection of ten essays in which a team of international scholars describe and interpret Tibetan medical knowledge. With subjects ranging from the relationship between Tibetan and Greco-Arab conceptions of...

How did medical students become Galenic physicians in the early modern era? Making Physicians guides the reader through the ancient sources, textbooks, lecture halls, gardens, dissecting rooms, and patient bedsides in the early decades of an important ...

John Duffy's classic history, formerly titled The Healers, has been thoroughly revised and updated for this second edition, which includes new chapters on women and minorities in medicine and on the challenges currently...

This collection draws together original scholarship from international contributors on a range of aspects of professional and semi-professional medical work and its relations to British culture. It combines a diverse spectrum of scholarly approaches,...

Immerse yourself in the history of medicine - a colorful story of skill, serendipity, trial and error, moments of genius, and dogged determination.From traditional Chinese medicine to today's sophisticated gene therapies and robotic surgery, A Short...

A spectacularly illustrated history of an enigmatic surgical diagramThe Wound Man-a medical diagram depicting a figure fantastically pierced by weapons and ravaged by injuries and diseases-was reproduced widely across the medieval and early modern globe...

Step into the fascinating world of medical history with the second edition of Curiosities in Medicine: Alphabetically, now featuring 20 new chapters, for a total of 100 captivating stories! This expanded collection takes you on a journey through the...

Stimulated by the development of childhood studies and the social history of medicine, this book lays out the historical circumstances that led to the medicalization of childhood in Greece from the end of the nineteenth century until World War Two. For...

Deanne Stephens Nuwer explores the social, political, racial, and economic consequences of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi. A mild winter, a long spring, and a torrid summer produced conditions favoring the Aedes aegypti and spread of fever...

Examines the role of an influential neurological institute in shaping a new, interdisciplinary science-neuroscience-and advancing it worldwide. Wired Together explains the rise of neuroscience by tracing the history of the Montreal Neurological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977314904Author Robert FortuineFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint PHS Commissioned Officers Foundation for the Advancement of Public HealthPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965984911Author Susan MeredithFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Alaska Public Health Nursing History AssociationPublisher Alaska Public Health...