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Eso No Estaba En Mi Libro de Historia de la Medicina by Jon Arrizabalag 9788417547219
RRP: £12.95£9.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417547219Author Jon ArrizabalagFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint AlmuzaraPublisher AlmuzaraWeight(grams) 227g -
No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States by Karen Buhler-Wilkerson 9780801873188
£27.94No Place Like Home sets out to determine why home care, despite its potential as a cost-effective alternative to institutional care, remains a marginalized experiment in care giving. Nurse and historian Karen Buhler-Wilkerson traces the history of home... -
Emerging Illnesses and Society: Negotiating the Public Health Agenda by Randall M. Packard 9780801879425
RRP: £51.50£45.81How do new diseases become part of the public health agenda? Emerging Illnesses and Society brings together historians, sociologists, epidemiologists, public health experts, and others to explore this vital issue. Contributors describe the processes by... -
Theaters of Anatomy: Students, Teachers, and Traditions of Dissection in Renaissance Venice by Cynthia Klestinec 9781421401423
£51.75Of enduring historical and contemporary interest, the anatomy theater is where students of the human body learn to isolate structures in decaying remains, scrutinize their parts, and assess their importance. Taking a new look at the history of anatomy,... -
The Evolution of Modern Medicine by William Osler 9786057876966
£12.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786057876966Author William OslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest BooksPublisher E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest... -
Vaccine: The Debate in Modern America by Mark A. Largent 9781421406077
£35.05Since 1990, the number of mandated vaccines has increased dramatically. Today, a fully vaccinated child will have received nearly three dozen vaccinations between birth and age six. Along with the increase in number has come a growing wave of concern... -
The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal by Marian Moser Jones 9781421407388
£40.97In dark skirts and bloodied boots, Clara Barton fearlessly ventured on to Civil War battlefields to tend to wounded soldiers. She later worked with civilians in Europe during the Franco-Prussian War, lobbied legislators to ratify the Geneva conventions,... -
The Lobotomy Letters - The Making of American Psychosurgery by Mical Raz 9781580464499
RRP: £60.00£57.15The rise and widespread acceptance of psychosurgery constitutes one of the most troubling chapters in the history of modern medicine. By the late 1950s, tens of thousands of Americans had been lobotomized as treatment for a host of psychiatric disorders... -
The Inevitable Hour: A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America by Emily K. Abel 9781421409191
RRP: £22.50£19.92At the turn of the twentieth century, medicine's imperative to cure disease increasingly took priority over the demand to relieve pain and suffering at the end of life. Filled with heartbreaking stories, The Inevitable Hour demonstrates that professional... -
Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century: A History by George Weisz 9781421413020
RRP: £51.50£45.41Long and recurring illnesses have burdened sick people and their doctors since ancient times, but until recently the concept of "chronic disease" had limited significance. Even lingering diseases like tuberculosis, a leading cause of mortality,... -
Prescribed: Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America by Jeremy A. Greene 9781421405063
£60.56America has had a long love affair with the prescription. It is much more than the written "script" or a manufactured medicine, professionally dispensed and taken, and worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As an object, it is uniquely... -
Prescribed: Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America by Jeremy A. Greene 9781421405070
£31.35America has had a long love affair with the prescription. It is much more than the written "script" or a manufactured medicine, professionally dispensed and taken, and worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As an object, it is uniquely... -
Communities of Learned Experience: Epistolary Medicine in the Renaissance by Nancy G. Siraisi 9781421407494
£42.97During the Renaissance, collections of letters both satisfied humanist enthusiasm for ancient literary forms and provided the flexibility of a format appropriate to many types of inquiry. The printed collections of medical letters by Giovanni Manardo of... -
The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria by Randall M. Packard 9780801887123
£20.35Malaria sickens hundreds of millions of people-and kills one to three million-each year. Despite massive efforts to eradicate the disease, it remains a major public health problem in poorer tropical regions. But malaria has not always been concentrated... -
Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London by Joel Peter Eigen 9780801874284
RRP: £40.50£35.97A sleepwalking, homicidal nursemaid; a "morally vacant" juvenile poisoner; a man driven to arson by a "lesion of the will"; an articulate and poised man on trial for assault who, while conducting his own defense, undergoes a profound personality change... -
Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control by Caroline Jean Acker 9780801867989
RRP: £47.50£41.97Heroin was only one drug among many that worried Progressive Era anti-vice reformers, but by the mid-twentieth century, heroin addiction came to symbolize irredeemable deviance. Creating the American Junkie examines how psychiatristsand psychologists... -
A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine by Heather Munro Prescott 9780674214613
RRP: £64.95£51.38Parents have known since time immemorial, and social scientists have agreed since the turn of the century, that adolescents are a people unto themselves--a "distinct developmental category." Yet it was not until the 1950s that a medical... -
Managing Madness: Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada by Erika Dyck 9780887557958
RRP: £31.95£20.09The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services... -
The Changing Face of Medicine: Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America by Ann K. Boulis 9780801476624
RRP: £20.99£16.84The number of women practicing medicine in the United States has grown steadily since the late 1960s, with women now roughly at parity with men among entering medical students. Why did so many women enter American medicine? How are women faring,... -
A Safe and Sure Method to Bring Sight to the Eyes of Those People Who Never Had It: And to Restore It to Others, Without Any Manual Operation, or Medicinal Application to the Eyes and to Cure 2ed by Multiple Contributors 9780699129039
RRP: £12.99£9.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780699129039Author Multiple ContributorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 189g -
Observations on the Changes of the Air and the Concomitant Epidemical Diseases in the Island of Barbadoes by William Hillary 9789766403164
RRP: £34.95£30.29Observations on the Changes of the Air and the Concomitant Epidemical Diseases in the Island of Barbadoes was first published in 1759 in London. Remarkably, a third edition was published in Philadelphia in 1812, with praise and annotations by the most... -
On the Treatment and Management of the More Common West-India Diseases, 1750-1802 by J. Edward Hutson 9789766402358
RRP: £26.95£23.22This work brings together, in one volume, a number of monographs from the mid to late eighteenth century (the period known as the Age of Reason) on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of African and Creole slaves in the English-speaking Caribbean... -
Observations on the Changes of the Air and the Concomitant Epidemical Diseases in the Island of Barbados by William Hillary 9789766402631
RRP: £75.00£64.10Observations on the Changes of the Air and the Concomitant Epidemical Diseases in the Island of Barbadoes was first published in 1759 in London. Remarkably, a third edition was published in Philadelphia in 1812, with praise and annotations by the famous... -
The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center by Charles R. Morris 9780393334005
RRP: £21.00£16.28Hailed as "an astute book of enormous importance" (Sherwin Nuland), The Surgeons follows the team at one of the world's premier cardiac surgery and transplant centers. Given unprecedented access, Charles R. Morris recounts in thrilling detail a... -
Marketplace of the Marvelous: The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine by Erika Janik 9780807061114
RRP: £18.99£17.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807061114Author Erika JanikFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 152mm * 19mm -
A Retrospective View of the Encreasing Number of the Standing Army of Great Britain, from Its First Establishment in 1650, to the General Peace of 1784. to Which Is Added, Some Observations on Recruiting by Multiple Contributors 9780699148412
RRP: £13.99£11.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780699148412Author Multiple ContributorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 246g -
The Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Almanac, for the Year of Our Lord, 1797 ... the Astronomical Calculations by Samuel Ivins ... Calculated for the Meridian of Philadelphia by Multiple Contributors 9780699166812
RRP: £12.99£9.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780699166812Author Multiple ContributorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 104g -
Our Medical Future: Breakthroughs in Health and Longevity by the Year 2000 and Beyond by Jeffrey A. Fisher 9780671738457
£13.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671738457Author Jeffrey A. FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 350g -
With the American Ambulance in France by James R Judd 9780615874258
RRP: £9.00£7.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615874258Author James R JuddFormat PaperbackImprint Sicpress.comPublisher Sicpress.comWeight(grams) 127g -
Death to Beauty by E Helveston 9780253067807
RRP: £18.99£16.92In the 1970s, Dr. Alan Scott sought to selectively weaken eye muscles to treat strabismus (when one or both eyes are misaligned) without surgery. After failed attempts with other agents, Scott developed a method to stabilize the bacteria that causes... -
Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America by Felicity M Turner 9781469669700
RRP: £29.95£26.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469669700Author Felicity M TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of North Carolina... -
Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Steven M. Stowe 9781469615158
RRP: £44.95£43.08Offering a new perspective on medical progress in the nineteenth century, Steven M. Stowe provides an in-depth study of the midcentury culture of everyday medicine in the South. Reading deeply in the personal letters, daybooks, diaries, bedside notes,... -
Healing Ways: Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century by Wade Davies 9780826324412
£37.28Since the end of World War II, Navajo healing traditions have slowly been integrated into the Western medical institutions that serve the Din . The history of Western medical care on Navajo reservations in the twentieth century, however, demonstrates... -
Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States by Michelle Therese Moran 9780807858394
RRP: £37.95£34.91By comparing institutions in Hawai'i and Louisiana designed to incarcerate individuals with a highly stigmatized disease, ""Colonizing Leprosy"" provides an innovative study of the complex relationship between U.S. imperialism and... -
Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930 by Sandra Lee Barney 9780807848340
RRP: £42.95£38.85In this book, Sandra Barney examines the transformation of medical care in Central Appalachia during the Progressive Era and analyzes the influence of women volunteers in promoting the acceptance of professional medicine in the region. By highlighting... -
Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists and the Argentine State, 1880-1983 by Jonathan Ablard 9781552382332
£33.18Madness in Buenos Aires : Patients, Psychiatrists and the Argentine State, 1880-1983 examines the interactions between psychiatrists, patients, and their families, and the national state in modern Argentina. This book offers a fresh interpretation of the... -
Modern Medicine in New Mexico: The State Medical Society From 1949-2009 by Michael Joe Dupont 9781450764414
£48.00Sixty years ago, modern medicine finally made its way to New Mexico. As World War II wound down, the state was a quaint backwater filled with aging quacks, Grade C medical graduates, and a vest-pocket professional organization. A group of young-gun... -
Silicone On Trial: Breast Implants and the Politics of Risk by Jack Fisher 9780986267925
RRP: £25.20£19.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986267925Author Jack FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Sager GroupPublisher Sager GroupWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm -
Tales from Kentucky Doctors by William Lynwood Montell 9780813168227
RRP: £21.50£17.31The nearly 350 humorous, heartwarming, and sometimes tragic accounts presented in William Lynwood Montell's latest book, Tales from Kentucky Doctors, offer an unusual perspective on the culture and tradition of Kentucky health-care practice. From the... -
Discovery and Healing: Reflections on Five Decades of Hematology/Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania by David Vaughn 9780812225273
RRP: £19.99£16.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812225273Author David VaughnFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania PressWeight(grams)...