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This is a study of the earliest extensive account of Chinese pulse diagnosis, or more accurately, the examination of mai. Dr Hsu focuses on a biography of Chunyu Yi, a doctor of the early Han, and presents the first complete translation into English of...

This book was originally published in 1914, and revised following the death of its author and the changes in healthcare brought about by the Great War. This 1922 second edition forms part of a series of books on public health and hygiene designed to...

This book is the first to give a well-documented, illustrated survey of the historical background to disease caused by fungi in man and domesticated animals. Medical and veterinary mycology includes the study of infectious diseases caused by...

Malaria is one of the leading killers in the world today. Though drugs against malaria have a long history, attempts to develop novel therapeutics spanned the twentieth century and continue today. In this historical study, Leo B. Slater shows the roots...

Healing with water provides a medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It argues that demand for healing rather than leisure drove the growth of a number of inland...

Exeter Cathedral Library, established in the eleventh century, houses medical and scientific books from all periods. The collection is one of the best of its kind and is a major resource. It includes the library of the Exeter physician Thomas Glass,...

According to the popular press in the mid twentieth century, American women, in a misguided attempt to act like men in work and leisure, were drinking more. "Lady Lushes" were becoming a widespread social phenomenon. From the glamorous...

When the new HIPAA privacy rules regarding the release of health information took effect, medical historians suddenly faced a raft of new ethical and legal challenges-even in cases where their subjects had died years, or even a century, earlier. In...

Traumatic Pasts, originally published in 2001, offers a variety of perspectives on mental trauma in war, medicine, culture and society in modern European and American history. Its primary goals are: to provide a generous sampling of the best of the...

In the early twentieth century lead had many domestic uses: in solder for cans, as a gasoline additive to prevent ""knocking"" in engines, in water pipes, and, most prominently, in interior paint prized for its durability and ability...

Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials in the context of global commerce and warfare. Bringing...

In Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States, Margaret Humphreys presents the first book-length account of the parasitic, insect-borne disease that has infected millions and influenced settlement patterns, economic development, and...

Women have long been crucial to the provision of medical services, both in the treatment of sickness and in maintaining health. In this study, Susan Broomhall situates the practices and perceptions of women's medical work in France in the context of the...

The United States' health care system stands out for its strict division of policies dealing with public health and individual medicine. Seeking to explain how this division came to be, what alternative paths might have been taken, and how this shapes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780699125086Author Multiple ContributorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 246g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648947097Author S K SinhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Shailendra K. SinhaPublisher Shailendra K. SinhaWeight(grams) 148g

How do we evaluate the safety and benefit of new drugs? What tasks do we hold the government responsible for and which ones do we leave to the medical profession? Harry Marks explores the origins of our contemporary system of drug regulation and the...

This collection of essays presents fresh interpretations of the growth of medico-legal ideas, institutions and practices in Britain, Europe and America over the past four hundred years. Based on a wealth of new research, it brings the historical study of...

Injury of the spinal cord has been known since antiquity. There is no cure for the injury and until modern times patients died rapidly from a combination of pressure sores and urinary tract infection. Treatment consists of preventing complications until...

One of the most spectacular medical advances of the 20th century, organ transplantation has become a generally effective and routine treatment for patients with organ failure. In this book, a well-known expert in the fields of clinical transplantation...

John T. Alexander's study dramatically highlights how the Russian people reacted to the Plague, and shows how the tools of modern epidemiology can illuminate the causes of the plague's tragic course through Russia. Bubonic Plauge in Early Modern Russia...

October 15, 1951 marks the birthday of one of the key episodes in 20th century social history: the first synthesis of a steroid oral contraceptive in a small laboratory in Mexico City - an event that triggered the development of the Pill. Carl Djerassi...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781140678250Author Joseph SaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062656216Author Joshua D MezrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. This innovative collection provides a vivid look at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170034842Author James LindFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 689g

This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses. Nursing was nominally a profession but with its poor pay and harsh discipline, it was unpopular with British women. In the years preceding the Second World...

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a renewed interest in the relationship between public health authorities and the public. Particular attention has been paid to ‘problem publics’ who do not follow health advice. This is not a new issue. As the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170176078Author William WitheringFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 246g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170395998Author Charles O'BrienFormat PaperbackImprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781140925132Author Robert WooffendaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 246g

The first study in English that examines barefoot doctors in China from the perspective of the social history of medicine. In 1968, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party endorsed a radical new system of health-care...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170197172Author Multiple ContributorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 246g

This is the first scholarly study to focus on Jewish women's experience of childbirth and infant care. In late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain there was deep concern about the perceived physical and military deterioration of the nation,...