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Can Medicine Be Cured?: The Corruption of a Profession by Seamus O'Mahony
RRP: £9.99£7.11A fierce, honest, elegant and often hilarious debunking of the great fallacies that drive modern medicine. By the award-winning author of The Way We Die Now. Seamus O'Mahony writes about the illusion of progress, the notion that more and more diseases... -
Great Discoveries in Medicine by William Bynum
RRP: £12.99£8.60An unrivalled account of turning points and breakthroughs in medical knowledge and practice, from ancient Egypt, India and China to the latest technology. Sickness and health, birth and death, disease and cure: medicine and our understanding of the... -
Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo
RRP: £14.99£10.95Hans Sloane was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets and squares named after him, but the man himself, and his achievements, are almost forgotten.Born in the north... -
Ten Days In a Mad-House: Illustrated by Nellie Bly 9781519649263
RRP: £5.99£5.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519649263Author Nellie BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Fighting Cancer with More than Medicine: A History of Macmillan Cancer Support by Paul N. Rossi 9780752448442
RRP: £25.00£18.55Macmillan Cancer Support is one of the UK's best-loved and largest charities. It is most widely known for its Macmillan nurses, who give care and support to people living with cancer and their families. But it does so much more, providing a wide range of... -
A Brief History of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Gene Therapy by Mr Paul Strathern 9781845291556
£13.33Paul Strathern follows the development of medicine through the lives of its greatest practitioners, whose discoveries (and errors) shaped the course of medical history. Includes geniuses, such as Paracelsus, the father of medical chemistry, and Edward... -
Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Coming of Age of American Physicians by Katherine L. Carroll
RRP: £47.50£38.74In the late nineteenth century, medical educators intent on transforming American physicians into scientifically trained, elite professionals swiftly recognized the value of medical school design for their reform efforts. Between 1893 and 1940, nearly... -
Wood Becomes Water: Chinese Medicine in Everyday Life - 20th Anniversary Edition by Gail Reichstein
RRP: £23.00£14.79Does your back pain flare up in the evening? Perhaps your water element is weak. Allergies in the spring? Emotional outbursts? Perhaps your wood element is too strong. Using the five element system of Chinese cosmology as a key - wood, fire, earth,... -
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics by Kevin Hazzard 9780306926099
RRP: £16.99£11.54Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A 9-1-1 call might bring police or even the local funeral home. But that all changed with Freedom House EMS in Pittsburgh, a group of Black men who became America's... -
The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution by Andrew M. Wehrman
RRP: £26.50£22.49Now an LA Times Book Prize finalist: a timely and fascinating account of the raucous public demand for smallpox inoculation during the American Revolution and the origin of vaccination in the United States.Finalist of the LA Times Book Prize for History... -
Insulin - The Crooked Timber: A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold by Kersten T. Hall 9780192855381
RRP: £29.99£26.34Before the discovery of insulin, a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes was a death sentence. One hundred years after a milestone medical discovery, 'Insulin - The Crooked Timber' tells the story of how insulin was transformed from what one clinician called... -
Histories of HIV/AIDS in Western Europe: New and Regional Perspectives by Janet Weston 9781526151216
RRP: £85.00£74.51The early 2020s marked the 40th anniversary of the first confirmed cases of AIDS and a new wave of historical interest in the ongoing epidemic. This edited collection showcases some of this exciting new work, with a particular focus on less well-known... -
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers by Joanna Bourke
RRP: £11.99£8.43Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. ... -
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, War, Famine and Death in Reformation Europe by Dr. Andrew Cunningham 9780521467018
RRP: £30.99£26.03This book offers an exciting interpretation of early modern European history (1490-1648). Cunningham and Grell's point of departure, and a prism through which events of the period are interpreted, is Durer's famous woodcut of The Four Horsemen of the... -
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 9780393881721
£11.19For 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... -
Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos by Lynn Morgan 9780520260443
RRP: £30.00£22.82"Icons of Life" tells the engrossing and provocative story of an early twentieth-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's project to collect thousands of embryos for scientific study. Lynn M. Morgan blends social analysis, sleuthing,... -
Giants: The Dwarfs of Auschwitz by Yehuda Koren 9781849546539
RRP: £9.99£7.06'Through thick and thin, never separate. Stick together, guard each other, and live for one another.' As Hitler's war intensified, the Ovitz family would have good reason to stand by their mother's mantra. Descending from the cattle train into the death... -
How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness by Katherine D. Van Schaik 9780691206271
RRP: £14.99£11.87Timeless wisdom about how to be healthy in body and mind from one of the greatest physicians of the ancient worldThe second-century Greek physician Galen-the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates-is a central figure in Western medicine. A... -
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £12.99£8.62'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York Times A compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian... -
The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19 by Jeremy Brown
RRP: £26.49£22.39A physician and historian of science and medicine at the National Institute of Health tells the hidden story of how plagues and pandemics shaped the history of the Jewish people. Plagues, pandemics, and infectious diseases have shaped the history of... -
The Edinburgh Seven: The Story of the First Women to Study Medicine by Janey Jones 9781399099233
RRP: £20.00£14.29Women have healed since the beginning of time, but accessing a formal degree in medicine was impossible for them in Britain until the late 19th century. In 1869, a group of women began arriving in Edinburgh to study at the medical faculty, led by the... -
Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War by Emily Mayhew
RRP: £12.99£9.09This is the unforgettable story of the remarkable medical workers of World War One.A hundred years ago, the Armistice that ended the Great War was signed. The human cost was devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. The... -
This Mortal Coil: A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year by Andrew Doig
RRP: £10.99£7.12A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist 'Full of curious facts' The Times Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of... -
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine by Roy Porter
RRP: £10.99£7.77Mankind's battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects. This brief, witty and unusual book by Britain's greatest medical historian compresses into a tiny span a lifetime spent thinking about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat... -
The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio by Forrest Maready
RRP: £16.99£14.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781717583673Author Forrest MareadyFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Little: A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year by Edward Carey
RRP: £20.00£14.27LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE... -
Tripping Over the Truth: How the Metabolic Theory of Cancer is Overturning One of Medicine's Most Entrenched Paradigms by Travis Christofferson 9781603587297
RRP: £20.00£17.51A masterful synchronization of history and cutting-edge science shines new light on humanity's darkest diagnosis. Over 50,000 copies sold! "Tripping over the Truth will have profound consequences for how cancer is managed and prevented."-Thomas N... -
A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Healing Arts of Greece and Rome by J. C. McKeown
RRP: £14.99£10.95There are few disciplines as exciting and forward-looking as medicine. Unfortunately, however, many modern practitioners have rather lost sight of the origins of their discipline. A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities aspires to make good this lapse... -
Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good: From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond by Cathy Gere
RRP: £26.00£21.70How should we weigh the costs and benefits of scientific research on humans? Is it right that a small group of people should suffer in order that a larger number can live better, healthier lives? Or is an individual truly sovereign, unable to be plotted... -
Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Religion in Post-Reformation Scandinavia by Ole Grell 9781032402352
RRP: £39.99£35.06The close relationship between religion, medicine and natural philosophy in the post-Reformation period has been documented and explored in a body of research since the 1990s; however, the direct and continued impact of Melanchthonian natural philosophy... -
Catching Breath by Kathryn Lougheed
RRP: £18.99£13.61A biography of tuberculosis, an ancient disease - but still a present danger. Tuberculosis has twisted through the millennia hand-in-hand with humanity, leaving its marks on our culture, our history and our DNA, from the birth of Homo sapiens right up... -
The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction by William F. Bynum
RRP: £8.99£6.61Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times to the present. Focussing on the key turning points in the history of Western medicine, such... -
How to Make a Killing: Death, Dollars and the Business of Blood by Tom Mueller 9781800818422
RRP: £20.00£14.29'A terrifying story of profit before patients, and a chilling glimpse of what can happen when private companies are allowed to take charge of healthcare.' Gavin Francis Six decades ago, researchers achieved the impossible: developing a treatment that... -
Typhoid Mary by Anthony Bourdain 9780747566878
RRP: £12.99£9.09In 1906, at a prosperous Long Island summer home, a family falls ill and typhoid is diagnosed. When Dr George Soper is called in to find the source of the contagion, he notices that the household cook has gone missing. She is Mary Mallon, the woman who... -
A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse by Victoria Shepherd 9780861545308
RRP: £10.99£7.12A curious history of the strange, wonderful and sometimes terrifying worlds created by our minds. 'An utterly engrossing book.' ZOE WILLIAMS For centuries we've dismissed delusions as something for doctors to sort out behind locked doors. But... -
Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750 by Lester K. Little
RRP: £33.99£28.78Plague was a key factor in the waning of Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages. In this volume, the first on the subject, twelve scholars from a variety of disciplines - history, archaeology, epidemiology, and molecular biology - have produced... -
Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Olivia Campbell 9781800752481
RRP: £10.99£7.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800752481Author Olivia CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction by Christian W. McMillen
RRP: £8.99£6.45The 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination and terrify the world. Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics... -
The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19 by Mark Honigsbaum
RRP: £12.99£9.09A Financial Times Best Book of the Year The most timely and informative history book you will read this year, tracing a century of pandemics, with a new chapter on COVID-19.Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of... -
Roman Medicine by Audrey Cruse 9780752414614
RRP: £25.00£16.82Until the mid-nineteenth century the Western medical tradition rested firmly on the foundations established in Classical Greece and later transmitted throughout the Roman Empire. Against this long and complex background, including both religious and...