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It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital in Zaire, Jacques Pépin looks back to the early...

A physician and medical reformer enthused by the scientific and cultural progress of the Enlightenment as it took hold in Britain, Thomas Percival (1740-1804) wrote on many topics, including public health and demography. His influential Medical Ethics...

Sir Henry Head (1861-1940) was an English physician and neurologist who worked extensively on sensory systems. Originally published in 1926, this book forms part of a two-volume work by Head on the subject of aphasia. The work was written in an attempt...

Originally published in 1928, this book presents the content of the Harveian Oration for that year, which was delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London by Sir Humphrey Davy Rolleston (1862-1944). The text provides an account of the...

Originally published in 1908, this book presents the content of the Linacre Lecture for that year, which was delivered by the renowned Canadian physician William Osler at St John's College, Cambridge. Illustrative figures are included within the text...

This new edition of White Coat Tales presents intriguing stories that give historical context to what we do in medicine today-the body's "holy bone" and how it got its name, a surprising reason why gout seemed to be so prevalent several centuries ago,...

First published in 1936, as the second edition of 1933 original, this book was written to provide a radiological study of the digestive tract's anatomy, physiology and pathology. Illustrative figures, detailed appendices and a bibliography are also...

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...

First published in 1925, this two-volume work deals with the blood's role in respiration. This first volume analyses the effect of high altitudes on the blood's ability to retain and diffuse oxygen. The text is illustrated with diagrams, maps and...

Originally published in 1946, this book presents the content of Sir Lionel Whitby's inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Regius Chair of Physic at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the development...

Originally published in 1938, this volume contains the text of the Rede Lecture for that year, delivered by Sir Patrick Laidlaw. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in virology and the history of medicine.Book InformationISBN...

This book is open access under a CC BY license and charts the rise and fall of various self-harming behaviours in twentieth-century Britain. It puts self-cutting and overdosing into historical perspective, linking them to the huge changes that occur in...

Originally published in 1937, this book contains a general overview of 'the dynamic side of biochemistry', namely how cells process and produce energy. Holmes considers the metabolic activity of many different tissues, such as the liver and heart, as...

Advances in medicine have brought us the stethoscope, artificial kidneys, and computerized health records. They have also changed the doctor-patient relationship. This book explores how the technologies of medicine are created and how we respond to the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813546605Author Stuart BlumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams)...

Taking the view that medicine is as much the art of avoiding ill health as it is the cure of disease, physician William Buchan (1729-1805) published this home health guide in 1769. The first part is devoted to preventing ailments through proper diet and...

Originally published in 1939, this volume contains the text of the Rede Lecture for that year, delivered by Sir Edward Mellanby. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the advances in medical science and their social and economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986936314Author Suzanne HumphriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 746Imprint Dissolving IllusionsPublisher Dissolving IllusionsWeight(grams) 980g

A physician and medical reformer enthused by the scientific and cultural progress of the Enlightenment as it took hold in Britain, Thomas Percival (1740-1804) wrote on many topics, including public health and demography. His influential publication on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783741182Author Jack BottingFormat HardbackImprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 517g

Originally published in 1940, this volume contains the text of the Linacre Lecture for that year, delivered by bacteriologist W. W. C. Topley. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of medicine and the history of field...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357967747Author John HaslamPage Count 64Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Sir Andrew Halliday (1782-1839) served as a surgeon in the Peninsular War, and then as a royal physician. In 1832 he was appointed Inspector of Hospitals in the West Indies until ill-health forced his return to Scotland. This 1839 pamphlet contains his...

International Relations in Psychiatry: Britain, Germany, and the United States to World War II addresses a crucial period in the history of psychiatry by examining the transfer of conceptual, institutional, and financial resources and the migration of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599428345Author Richard M SwiderskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Universal PublishersPublisher Universal PublishersWeight(grams)...

Originally published in 1917, as part of the Cambridge Public Health Series, this book was written to provide a guide for those 'interested in the stamping out of tuberculosis'. The text approaches the disease from an outlook based around experimental...

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...

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...

Originally published in 1915, this book gathers together a collection of papers on tuberculosis by the renowned British epidemiologist Arthur Ransome (1834-1922). The papers approach the subject from a number of different viewpoints, encompassing both...

First published in 1920 as part of the Cambridge Public Health Series, this book discusses the causes and nature of food poisoning. Food-related illnesses can arise from several different causes, and Savage addresses how food poisoning outbreaks arise...

Originally published in 1943, this book presents the content of the Linacre Lecture for that year, which was delivered by Major Greenwood at St John's College, Cambridge. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the development of...

John P. Horder, President, 1980-82 The first 30 years of the College have been an exciting experience for those most closely involved. Some have already passed on, but this account has been written soon enough for many of the actors to be historians...

Trained as a physician and alienist (psychiatrist), John Conolly (1794-1866) first published this work in 1856. It describes the abolition of mechanical restraints in the treatment of mentally ill patients at the Hanwell County Asylum in Middlesex, where...

Although he was tried for attempted murder and died in Newgate Prison, the natural philosopher and apothecary John Elliot (1747-87) published a number of significant scientific works in the first part of the 1780s, especially with regard to sensory...

Originally published in 1913, this text of the Linacre Lecture delivered at St John's College, Cambridge, will be of value to those interested in the role physicians have played in British history from Bede to Johnson. Moore details how doctors have...

What happened to the plague of HIV/AIDS that once seemed so threatening? Gabriele Griffin argues that the explosion of HIV/AIDS into highly visible cultural forms, from movies, theatre, activist interventions, and art from the late-1980s to the mid-1990s...

The surgeon Thomas Pettigrew (1791-1865) was interested in all aspects of antiquity. He gained fame in society through his mummy-unwrapping parties, and his History of Egyptian Mummies is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. His interest in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789359396439Author Aegineta PaulusFormat PaperbackPage Count 566Imprint Double 9 BooksPublisher Double 9 BooksWeight(grams) 708g

Medical Humanities may be broadly conceptualized as a discipline wherein medicine and its specialties intersect with those of the humanities and social sciences. As such it is a hybrid area of study where the impact of disease and healing science on...