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The NHS: Britain's National Health Service, 1948–2020 by Susan Cohen
RRP: £8.99£6.96A beautifully illustrated history of Britain's most revered and valued institution: the NHS. In March 2020 the UK went into lockdown to help contain the spread of COVID-19 and protect the NHS from one of the greatest threats that it has faced in its... -
This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women by Marieke Bigg 9781529377729
RRP: £10.99£6.47'A hugely informative and quietly furious call to arms.' IRISH TIMES'A ground-breaking new book.' EVENING STANDARD'A must read.' DAILY EXPRESS'She is balanced in her evidence analysis, forensic in her research.' TELEGRAPH'A vital subject that needs to be... -
Conquest of Invisible Enemies: A Human History of Antiviral Drugs by Jie Jack Li
RRP: £27.99£23.61It's time to examine the human history of viruses, vaccines, and antiviral drugs... Public response to the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that misinformation about viruses is widespread. Vaccine skepticism is rampant, and many people have been... -
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... -
Madness: A Brief History Roy Porter (, Former Professor of the Social History of Medicine, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London) 9780192802675
RRP: £13.99£9.75This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day. Roy Porter explores what we really mean by 'madness', covering an enormous range of topics... -
Great Discoveries in Medicine by William Bynum
RRP: £12.99£8.13An 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... -
Can Medicine Be Cured?: The Corruption of a Profession Seamus O'Mahony 9781788544559
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... -
Introduction To The Medical History Of Ethiopia by Richard Pankhurst 9780932415455
RRP: £19.95£13.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932415455Author Richard PankhurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 448g -
Expanding Mindscapes: A Global History of Psychedelics by Erika Dyck 9780262546935
RRP: £52.00£36.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546935Author Erika DyckFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
A Brief History of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Gene Therapy 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... -
Histories of HIV/AIDS in Western Europe: New and Regional Perspectives Janet Weston 9781526151216
RRP: £85.00£60.17The early 2020s marked the fortieth 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... -
Why Can’t I See My GP?: The Past, Present and Future of General Practice by Ellen Welch 9781915279460
RRP: £16.99£12.28'I tried to contact my own GP last week. I counted 19 redials and 20 minutes on hold before I was able to speak to a receptionist... only to be told that all the appointments for the day had gone. My experience echoes a familiar tale told up and down... -
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, War, Famine and Death in Reformation Europe by Dr. Andrew Cunningham 9780521467018
RRP: £30.99£25.26This 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... -
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... -
Giants: The Dwarfs of Auschwitz by Yehuda Koren 9781849546539
RRP: £9.99£7.27'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... -
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... -
A Surgeon and a Maverick: The Life and Pioneering Work of Magdi Yacoub by Simon Pearson 9781649031969
RRP: £24.99£20.29"[A] remarkable journey." -The TelegraphThe incredible life story of legendary cardiac surgeon and scientist Magdi Yacoub, an outsider who succeeded against the odds Veteran journalists Simon Pearson and Fiona Gorman follow the remarkable... -
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
RRP: £22.00£14.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439170915Author Siddhartha MukherjeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm)... -
Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend: 200th Anniversary Edition by Mark Bostridge
RRP: £12.99£9.09Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical Biography 'Engrossing' Claire Tomalin / 'Superb' Sunday Times / 'A triumph' Daily Mail Whether honoured and admired or criticized and ridiculed, Florence Nightingale has invariably been... -
How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown by Edward Shorter 9780199948086
RRP: £38.49£32.74This book argues that psychiatry's love affair with the diagnosis of depression has become a death grip. Depression is a real illness, especially in its melancholic form. But most patients who get the diagnosis of 'depression' are also anxious, fatigued,... -
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... -
The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction by William F. Bynum
RRP: £8.99£6.45Against 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... -
Naked To The Bone: Medical Imaging In The Twentieth Century by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles 9780201328332
£27.80A century ago, the living body, like most of the material world, was opaque. Then Wilhelm Roentgen captured and X-ray image of his wife's finger,her wedding ring floating" around a white bone,and our range of vision changed forever. By the 1920s,... -
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £12.99£9.09'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... -
Catching Breath by Kathryn Lougheed
RRP: £18.99£14.59A 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... -
How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness by Katherine D. Van Schaik 9780691206271
RRP: £14.99£12.15Timeless 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... -
The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics by Donald G McNeil
RRP: £20.00£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668001394Author Donald G McNeilFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Contagious Communities: Medicine, Migration, and the NHS in Post War Britain by Roberta E. Bivins 9780198725282
RRP: £62.00£61.49It was only a coincidence that the NHS and the Empire Windrush (a ship carrying 492 migrants from Britain's West Indian colonies) arrived together. On 22 June 1948, as the ship's passengers disembarked, frantic preparations were already underway for 5... -
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... -
How to Make a Killing: Death, Dollars and the Business of Blood 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... -
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 -
The Demon Under the Microscope by Thomas Hager 9781400082148
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400082148Author Thomas HagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Roman Medicine by Audrey Cruse 9780752414614
RRP: £25.00£18.94Until 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... -
Insulin - The Crooked Timber: A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold by Kersten T. Hall 9780192855381
RRP: £31.49£27.58Before 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... -
NICE at 25: A quarter-century of evidence, values, and innovation in health Peter Littlejohns 9781032248936
RRP: £130.00£112.11Marking its 25th anniversary, this fascinating collection examines the pioneering work of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).Setting standards for the delivery of healthcare, issuing guidance on public health, and assessing and... -
Florence Nightingale and the Nursing Legacy Monica Baly (Internation History of Nursing Journal) 9781861560445
RRP: £55.95£48.53This is a study based on research into the records of the Nightingale Fund and how it was used to finance various experiments in nursing and midwifery training in the nineteenth century. It traces the development of nurse training and discusses the... -
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... -
Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor: The Human Stories Behind the Drugs We Use by Jie Jack Li 9780195300994
RRP: £38.99£32.19The stories behind drug discovery are fascinating, full of human and scientific interest. This is a book on the history of drug discovery that highlights the intellectual splendor of discoverers as well as the human frailty associated with them. History... -
Paracelsus by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556433160Author ParacelsusFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Quackery by Lydia Kang 9780761189817
RRP: £15.99£12.77What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine-yes, that...