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Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity by Virginia Smith
£26.77Why do we still have nits? What exactly are 'purity rules'? And why have baths scarcely changed in 200 years? The long history of personal hygiene and purity is a fascinating subject that reveals how closely we are linked to our deeper past. In this... -
Spreading Germs: Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865-1900 by Michael Worboys
RRP: £22.99£20.66Spreading Germs discusses how modern ideas on the bacterial causes of communicable diseases were constructed and spread within the British medical profession in the last third of the nineteenth century. Michael Worboys surveys many existing... -
Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value by Nima Bassiri 9780226830896
RRP: £28.00£27.39Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, the severity of mental illness was measured against a patient's economic productivity. Madness and Enterprise reveals the economic norms embedded within... -
Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry by Matthew M. Heaton 9780821420706
RRP: £27.99£24.14Black Skin, White Coats is a history of psychiatry in Nigeria from the 1950s to the 1980s. Working in the contexts of decolonization and anticolonial nationalism, Nigerian psychiatrists sought to replace racist colonial psychiatric theories about the... -
Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety and Healing in Seventeenth-Century England by Michael MacDonald 9780521273824
RRP: £39.99£33.26Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier, a clergyman and astrological physician, who treated over 2000 mentally disturbed patients... -
The Top Ten Diseases of All Time by Professor Stacey Smith? 9780776640600
RRP: £7.00£6.29Infectious diseases have been with us for millennia and continue to pose a threat, from the irritation of flu season to the potential extinction of our species.We instinctively fear them and alter our behaviour as a result. The reason we bury bodies six... -
Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver by Arthur Allen 9780393331561
RRP: £27.00£22.08Vaccine juxtaposes the stories of brilliant scientists with the industry's struggle to produce safe, effective, and profitable vaccines. It focuses on the role of military and medical authority in the introduction of vaccines and looks at why some... -
Medicine in Society: Historical Essays by Mr Andrew Wear 9780521336390
RRP: £30.99£27.17The social history of medicine over the last fifteen years has redrawn the boundaries of medical history. Specialised papers and monographs have contributed to our knowledge of how medicine has affected society and how society has shaped medicine. This... -
Blood on Their Hands: How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs by Donna Shaw 9780813576220
RRP: £35.00£31.14A few short years after HIV first entered the world blood supply in the late 1970s and early 1980s, over half the hemophiliacs in the United States were infected with the virus. But this was far more than just an unforeseeable public health disaster... -
Ancient Medicine: Selected Papers of Ludwig Edelstein by Ludwig Edelstein
RRP: £32.50£29.49A classic study of medicine in antiquity, Ancient Medicine brings together much of Ludwig Edelstein's most important work on a subject that occupied him throughout a distinguished career. Included is his widely known translation of and commentary on the... -
Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis by Sydney A. Halpern
RRP: £25.00£24.34The untold history of America's mid-twentieth-century program of hepatitis infection research, its scientists' aspirations, and the damage the project caused human subjects "Sydney Halpern has written a compelling, if unsettling, history of hepatitis... -
Sick and Tired: An Intimate History of Fatigue by Emily K. Abel
RRP: £19.95£18.81Medicine finally has discovered fatigue. Recent articles about various diseases conclude that fatigue has been underrecognized, underdiagnosed, and undertreated. Scholars in the social sciences and humanities have also ignored the phenomenon. As a... -
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah 9780312573010
RRP: £19.00£12.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312573010Author Sonia ShahFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 142mm * 22mm -
Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York by Stacy Horn 9781616209353
RRP: £12.99£9.95"Enthralling; it is well worth the trip." --New York Journal of Books Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York's Blackwell's Island, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of... -
Polio: The Odyssey of Eradication by Thomas Abraham
RRP: £30.00£26.95In 1988, the World Health Organization launched a twelve-year campaign to wipe out polio. Thirty years and several billion dollars over budget later, the campaign grinds on, vaccinating millions of children and hoping that each new year might see an end... -
The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis by Sherwin B. Nuland 9780393326253
RRP: £12.99£9.83Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignac Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. Ignac Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that... -
Quacks and Cures: Quack Doctors and Folk Healing of the Black Country by Kevin Goodman 9780957137721
RRP: £6.32£5.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957137721Author Kevin GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Bows, Blades and Battles PressPublisher Bows, Blades and Battles PressWeight(grams)... -
The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA by David B. Goldstein
RRP: £20.00£16.98An urgent plea for a broader understanding and awareness of the unconsidered dangers of new genetic technologies Since 2010 it has been possible to determine a person's genetic makeup in a matter of days at an accessible cost for many millions of... -
Oxford's Medical Heritage: The People Behind the Names by Jones Rosemary C Fitzherbert 9780955272516 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.00£2.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955272516Author Jones Rosemary C FitzherbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Cobaka BooksPublisher Cobaka Books -
Public Health in British India: Anglo-Indian Preventive Medicine 1859-1914 by Mark Harrison 9780521466882
RRP: £30.99£28.28After years of neglect the last decade has witnessed a surge of interest in the medical history of India under colonial rule. This is the first major study of public health in British India. It covers many previously unresearched areas such as European... -
Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity by Warwick Anderson 9781421415338
RRP: £23.00£21.49Autoimmune diseases, which affect 5 to 10 percent of the population, are as unpredictable in their course as they are paradoxical in their cause. They produce persistent suffering as they follow a drawn-out, often lifelong, pattern of remission and... -
Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution by Don Fitz
RRP: £17.99£14.89Quiet as it's kept inside the United States, the Cuban Revolution has achieved some phenomenal goals, reclaiming Cuba's agriculture, advancing its literacy rate to nearly 100 percent-and remaking its medical system. Cuba has transformed its health care... -
Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London: Simon Forman: Astrologer, Alchemist, and Physician by Lauren Kassell 9780199215270
RRP: £55.00£44.42Simon Forman (1552-1611) is one of London's most infamous astrologers. He stood apart from the medical elite because he was not formally educated and because he represented, and boldly asserted, medical ideas that were antithetical to those held by most... -
Medieval Syphilis and Treponemal Disease Marylynn Salmon (Research Associate in History, Smith College) 9781802700480
RRP: £15.95£15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802700480Author Marylynn SalmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement, Measurement, Sensation by Mark Paterson 9781517909994
RRP: £93.00£80.64An engrossing history of the century that transformed our knowledge of the body's inner senses The years between 1833 and 1945 fundamentally transformed science's understanding of the body's inner senses, revolutionizing fields like philosophy, the... -
Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine by Jack D. Pressman 9780521524599
RRP: £37.99£34.83During the 1940s and 1950s, tens of thousands of Americans underwent some form of psychosurgery; that is, their brains were operated upon for the putative purpose of treating mental illness. From today's perspective, such medical practices appear... -
On Monsters and Marvels by Ambroise Pare 9780226645636
RRP: £30.00£29.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226645636Author Ambroise PareFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)... -
PTSD: A Short History by Allan V. Horwitz
RRP: £25.50£22.44A comprehensive history of PTSD.Post-traumatic stress disorder-and its predecessor diagnoses, including soldier's heart, railroad spine, and shell shock-was recognized as a psychiatric disorder in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The psychic... -
Mad-Doctors in the Dock: Defending the Diagnosis, 1760-1913 by Joel Peter Eigen 9781421420486
RRP: £35.00£31.24Shortly before she pushed her infant daughter headfirst into a bucket of water and fastened the lid, Annie Cherry warmed the pail because, as she later explained to a police officer, "It would have been cruel to put her in cold water." Afterwards, this... -
History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture by Georges Minois 9780801866470
RRP: £26.50£24.62In this compact and illuminating history, Georges Minois examines how a culture's attitudes about suicide reflect its larger beliefs and values-attitudes toward life and death, duty and honor, pain and pleasure. Minois begins his survey with classical... -
The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy by Seth Mnookin
RRP: £18.00£11.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439158654Author Seth MnookinFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder by David Healy
RRP: £24.00£21.18This provocative history of bipolar disorder illuminates how perceptions of illness, if not the illnesses themselves, are mutable over time. Beginning with the origins of the concept of mania-and the term maniac-in ancient Greek and Roman civilizations,... -
Medicine and Culture: Varieties of Treatment in the United States, England by Lynn Payer 9780805048032
£13.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805048032Author Lynn PayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)... -
Multiple Sclerosis: The History of a Disease by T. Jock Murray 9781888799804
RRP: £23.99£19.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsRunner-up for IndieFab awards (Health) 2005.Book InformationISBN 9781888799804Author T. Jock MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 580Imprint Demos Medical PublishingPublisher... -
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine by Thomas Morris 9781524743703 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£6.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524743703Author Thomas MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint DuttonPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm * 20mm -
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine by Thomas Morris 9781524743703
RRP: £20.00£9.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524743703Author Thomas MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint DuttonPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm * 20mm -
The History of Pain by Roselyne Rey
RRP: £36.95£30.13Feared by most, sought out by others, pain may manifest itself as a benevolent messenger warning of imminent danger or a repellent nemesis that undermines and incapacitates us. Throughout the ages pain has intrigued those who focus on the soul and the... -
A Violent History of Benevolence: Interlocking Oppression in the Moral Economies of Social Working by Chris Chapman 9781442628861
RRP: £37.00£32.82A Violent History of Benevolence traces how normative histories of liberalism, progress, and social work enact and obscure systemic violences. Chris Chapman and A.J. Withers explore how normative social work history is structured in such a way that... -
That High Design Of Purest Gold: A Critical History Of The Pharmaceutical Industry, 1880-2020 by Graham Dutfield 9789811249921
RRP: £65.00£56.57This book is a history of medicines and the commercial actors that make and sell them, covering the 140 years since the modern pharmaceutical industry came into being. It is written in a lively and accessible way, aiming at a general audience that... -
A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey by Craig A. Miller
RRP: £43.99£43.65He has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Michael DeBakey rose from humble beginnings in a backwater Louisiana town to dominate the landscape of modern medicine. His contributions to our understanding...