History

Starting with the hypothesis that not only human intelligence but also its antithesis 'intellectual disability' are nothing more than historical contingencies, C.F. Goodey's paradigm-shifting study traces the rich interplay between labelled human types...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400078790Author Howard MarkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

The story of mankind's struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medicine, it was a battleground between good and bad science. Gareth Williams takes an original view of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735210905Author Tia PowellFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

How Romans coped with the anxieties and risks of childbirthAcross the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals to one another, to the highest levels of imperial politics, even to the movements of the stars. Birthing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544252Author Kathryn T. HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

In this historical tour de force, now available in B-format paperback, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in health, disease and death in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Porter argues that great...

All who lived in the early 1950s remember the fear of polio and the elation felt when a successful vaccine was found. Now David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the...

Patients as Art explores the capacity of art to provide a unique perspective on the history of humankind. Fearturing over 160 full-color works of art, this book offers a pictorial review of medical history stretching from Paleolithic times to the...

Is women's destiny rooted in their biology? Since the end of the eighteenth century the science of gynaecology has legitimised the view that women are 'naturally' fitted for activities in the private sphere of the family. This book argues that the...

Jacalyn Duffin's History of Medicine is one of the leading texts used to teach the history of the medical profession. Emphasizing broad concepts rather than names and dates, it has also been widely appreciated by general readers for more than twenty...

Why 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...

Face lifts, nose jobs, breast implants, liposuction, collagen injections-the body at the end of the twentieth century has become endlessly mutable, and surgical alteration has become an accepted part of American culture. In Venus Envy, Elizabeth Haiken...

Gray's Anatomy is probably one of the most iconic scientific books ever published: an illustrated textbook of anatomy that is still a household name 150 years since its first edition, known for its rigorously scientific text, and masterful illustrations...

Thalidomide: patented in Germany as a non-toxic cure-all for sleeplessness and morning sickness. A wonder drug with no side effects. We know differently now. Today, thalidomide is a byword for tragedy and drug reform - a sign of what happens when things...

Weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society's-and her own-perception of life as a deaf person in America. At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi's world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but...

What are the real disease entities in psychiatry? This is a question that has bedeviled the study of the mind for more than a century yet it is low on the research agenda of psychiatry. Basic science issues such as neuroimaging, neurochemistry, and...

Mystical 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...

Active in fields spanning medicine, ornithology, zoology and even watercolour painting, Frederick Dawtrey Drewitt (1848-1942) was a prominent fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, exhibited at the Royal Academy, and was involved in governing the...

It is now thirty years since the discovery of AIDS but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and scientists. Inspired by his own experiences working as an infectious diseases physician in Africa, Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, 2010 Ken Book Award presented by the National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City Metro (NAMI-NYC Metro) 2010.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592645794Format HardbackPage Count 596Imprint Toby Press LLC, ThePublisher Toby Press LLC, The

A cultural, social, and medical history of migraine.For centuries, people have talked of a powerful bodily disorder called migraine, which currently affects about a billion people around the world. Yet until now, the rich history of this condition has...

For two thousand years, cadavers - some willingly, some unwittingly - have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918860521Author George OhsawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ohsawa (George) Macrobiotic Foundation,U.S.Publisher Ohsawa (George) Macrobiotic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783316465Author Flora MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Naval & Military PressPublisher Naval & Military PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm)...

Explores the historical roots of controversies over abortion, fetal personhood, miscarriage, and maternal mortality.On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision, asserting that the Constitution did not confer the right to...

For 150 years, Down's Syndrome has constituted the archetypal mental disability, easily recognisable by distinct facial anomalies and physical stigmata. In a narrow medical sense, Down's syndrome is a common disorder caused by the presence of all or part...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338577Author Graham LoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 175mm * 240mm * 4mm

In Native American Medicinal Plants, anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman describes the medicinal use of more than 2700 plants by 218 Native American tribes. Information-adapted from the same research used to create the monumental Native American...

In the nineteenth century, drug consumption permeated French society to produce a new norm: the chemical enhancement of modern life. French citizens empowered themselves by seeking pharmaceutical relief for their suffering and engaging in self-medication...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452285071Author Jennifer Lee CarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm...

What were the illnesses that plagued men, women, and children of the ancient world? Traditional approaches to this subject have often relied exclusively on literary evidence, but ancient texts are extraordinarily difficult to interpret. Different...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909979277Author Monica-Maria StapelbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Crux PublishingPublisher Crux PublishingWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies 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

A revealing look at how the memory of the plague held the poor responsible for epidemic disease in eighteenth-century Britain "This work will be required reading in fields of research that do not often overlap such as the histories of medical thought,...

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Medicine and Healing in the Pre-Modern West traces the history of medicine and medical practice from Ancient Egypt through to the end of the Middle Ages. Featuring nearly one hundred primary documents and images, this book introduces students and...

More people today report feeling anxious than ever before-even while living in relatively safe and prosperous modern societies. Almost one in five people experiences an anxiety disorder each year, and more than a quarter of the population admits to an...

The 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...