History

In Bioethics in America, Tina Stevens challenges the view that the origins of the bioethics movement can be found in the 1960s, a decade mounting challenges to all variety of authority. Instead, Stevens sees bioethics as one more product of a...

Volume II details the development of medicine among the early Indo-European peoples--Greeks, Indians, and Persians.Book InformationISBN 9780195050790Author Henry Ernst SigeristFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher...

By the 1970s, a therapeutic revolution, decades in the making, had transformed hemophilia from an obscure hereditary malady into a manageable bleeding disorder. Yet the glory of this achievement was short lived. The same treatments that delivered some...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734030815Author William J KellerFormat HardbackPage Count 652Imprint William J Keller PhDPublisher William J Keller PhDWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620456743Author Hal HellmanFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint WileyPublisher WileyWeight(grams) 567g

Still the leading cause of death worldwide, heart disease challenges researchers, clinicians, and patients alike. Each day, thousands of patients and their doctors make decisions about coronary angioplasty and bypass surgery. In "Broken Hearts" David S...

For sixty years genetic counselors have served as the messengers of important information about the risks, realities, and perceptions of genetic conditions. More than 2,500 certified genetic counselors in the United States work in clinics, community and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665702485Author Michael B a OldstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665702478Author Michael B a OldstoneFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781275621329Author Samuel Stanhope SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Gale Ecco, Sabin AmericanaPublisher Gale Ecco, Sabin AmericanaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087920832Author Dr Amir GendyFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Amir GendyPublisher Amir GendyWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737637219Author Terri Wallo StraussFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint One Punch Productions LLCPublisher One Punch Productions LLCWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662870842Author William H AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Liberty Hill PublishingPublisher Liberty Hill PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917329088Author Stephanie J SnowFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint UK Book PublishingPublisher Consilience MediaWeight(grams) 536g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503513614Author D BuicanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 6250g

A global history of dengue fever and humanity's ongoing struggle against this persistent disease.In Fevered Cities, Randall M. Packard explores the complex and evolving history of dengue fever, the world's most widespread mosquito-borne viral disease...

What part did the British voluntary hospital system play in the health of the community in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Did hospitals kill or cure? Originally published in 1974, this study investigates these questions through a pioneering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665731393Author Harry L Munsinger J DFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410223098Author Internatio Fogarty International CenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 824Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410202383Author Mary C GillettFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733956130Author Christine Renee LeningerFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Lupi Docs & DesignsPublisher Lupi Docs & DesignsWeight(grams) 141g

This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known scholars, who bring to bear a range of methodological and geographic expertise on this topic. The book’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846832031Author Brian JanmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Woodfield Publishing LtdPublisher Woodfield Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 995g

Feminist mental health activism in England, c.1968-1995 provides the first in-depth examination of feminist mental health activism in England, employing original oral history interviews alongside detailed case studies of unexplored feminist initiatives...

Winner of the 2022 Vincent H. Duckles Award, Music Library AssociationJohn Adams: A Research and Information Guide offers the first comprehensive guide to the musical works and literature of one of the leading American composers of our time. The research...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735334370Author Wallace B MendelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Pythagoras PressPublisher Pythagoras PressWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

This encyclopedia explores historical and contemporary fringe remedies seen as strange, ridiculous, or even gruesome by modern Western medicine but which nevertheless played an important role in the history of medicine.From placing leeches on the neck to...

Most of these occasional pieces, published over a period of almost 20 years and brought together for the first time in this volume, explore the interrelationships between neurology and literature, hence "neuroliterature". Both literary and clinical...

The Bristol Medico-Historical Society are pleased to announce the publication of their seventh volume of proceedings. This covers a large variety of topics ranging from Medical Fraud to X-ray pioneers, Childbed Fever to Old Age Pensions, Inebriety to...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487585778Author Nelles SilverthorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781991016720Author Jacqueline LeckieFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University PressWeight(grams) 500g

Offers reflections, provocative questions, and practical strategies for ethical, responsible approaches to health history.In Do Less Harm, editors Courtney E. Thompson and Kylie M. Smith bring together a group of leading historians and scholars to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943347568Author Richard L MatteoliFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Nemean PressPublisher Nemean PressWeight(grams) 263g

Although scorned in the early 1900s and publicly condemned by Abraham Flexner and the American Medical Association, the practice of homeopathy did not disappear. Instead, it evolved with the emergence of holistic healing and Eastern philosophy in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646426799Author Robert FortuineFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108845922Author Yi-Tang LinFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

Originally published in 1948, and first delivered as the Fitzpatrick Lectures for 1941 and 1943, this book addresses the early history of medical and social statistics and the numerical method as applied to the phenomena of human society. Greenwood...

Galen (Claudius Galenus, 129-c. 199 CE) is the most famous physician of the Greco-Roman world whose writings have survived. A Greek from a wealthy family, raised and educated in the Greek city of Pergamon, he acquired his medical education by travelling...