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Mummies, Magic and Medicine in Ancient Egypt: Multidisciplinary Essays for Rosalie David by Campbell Price
RRP: £35.00£31.95This volume, published in honour of Egyptologist Professor Rosalie David OBE, presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation: mummies, magic and medical practice. Drawing on recent archaeological... -
A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac by Edward Shorter
RRP: £34.99£23.43"PPPP . . . To compress 200 years of psychiatric theory and practice into a compelling and coherent narrative is a fine achievement . . . . What strikes the reader [most] are Shorter's storytelling skills, his ability to conjure up the personalities of... -
Penicillin Man by Chris Brown
RRP: £14.99£11.55The history of penicillin.About the AuthorKevin Brown has been Trust Archivist and Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum Curator at St Mary's NHS Trust, Paddington since 1989. Educated at Hertford College, Oxford and at University College, London, he is... -
The Midwife by Susan Cohen
RRP: £7.99£6.25The midwife: medical professional, friend in a woman's hour of greatest need, potent social and cultural symbol. Though the role of midwife has existed since time immemorial, it is only since the Victorian era that it has been a recognised and regulated... -
Duel Without End: Mankind's Battle with Microbes by Stig S. Froland 9781789145052
RRP: £30.00£20.95In this panoramic and up-to-date account, we learn how the Black Death, smallpox, the Spanish flu and other great epidemics have led to enormous sufferings and mass death, as well as contributing to the fall of empires and changing the course of history... -
The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Thomas Goetz 9781592409174
RRP: £12.99£9.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592409174Author Thomas GoetzFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 237g -
The Body: A Very Short Introduction by Chris Shilling
RRP: £8.99£6.45The human body is thought of conventionally as a biological entity, with its longevity, morbidity, size and even appearance determined by genetic factors immune to the influence of society or culture. Since the mid-1980s, however, there has been a rising... -
Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War by Lucy Moore
RRP: £9.99£3.20'Fascinating... A vivid account' - Philippa Gregory, The TimesIn the mid-seventeenth century, England was divided by Civil War, but inside the home domestic life continued as it always had done. Lady Ann Fanshawe's 'receipt book' was a treasured and... -
Nutrition in Crisis: Flawed Studies, Misleading Advice, and the Real Science of Human Metabolism Dr. Richard David Feinman 9781603588195
RRP: £19.99£13.35Almost every day it seems a new study is published that shows you are at risk for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or death due to something you've just eaten for lunch. Many of us no longer know what to eat or who to believe. In Nutrition in Crisis... -
Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1800-1930: A Source Book Deborah Brunton 9780719067396
RRP: £19.99£14.52During the nineteenth century, the provision of medical care underwent a radical transformation. In 1800, the body was still understood in terms of humours and fluids, and treatment was provided by a wide range of individuals, some of whom had little or... -
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 9780393881721
£10.24For two thousand years, cadavers - some willingly, some unwittingly - have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian... -
Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium by Lucy Inglis
RRP: £14.99£11.13'Lucy Inglis has done a wonderful job bringing together a wide range of sources to tell the history of the most exciting and dangerous plants in the world. Telling the story of opium tells us much about our faults and foibles as humans - our willingness... -
The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox by Jennifer Lee Carrell 9780452285071
RRP: £23.76£17.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452285071Author Jennifer Lee CarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 459g -
The Falling Sickness: A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology by Owsei Temkin
RRP: £31.50£28.63Owsei Temkin presents the history of epilepsy in Western civilization from ancient times to the beginnings of modern neurology. First published in 1945 and thoroughly revised in 1971, this classic work by one of the history of medicine's most eminent... -
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Edith Sheffer
RRP: £21.99£18.95In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, treating those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as compassionate and devoted, Asperger was in fact deeply... -
Nurses of Passchendaele: Tending the Wounded of Ypres Campaigns 1914 - 1918 Christine E. Hallett 9781526702883
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Ypres Salient saw some of the bitterest fighting of the First World War. The once-fertile fields of Flanders were turned into a quagmire through which men fought for four years. In casualty clearing stations, on ambulance trains and barges, and at... -
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine by Mark Jackson
RRP: £37.49£36.59The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. In recent decades, the history of medicine has emerged as a rich and mature sub-discipline within history, but the strength of the... -
Ancient Medicine Vivian Nutton (University College London, UK) 9781032282824
RRP: £37.99£33.38The third edition of this magisterial account of medicine in the Greek and Roman worlds, written by the foremost expert on the subject, has been updated to incorporate the many new discoveries made in the field over the past decade.This revised volume... -
The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines by Donald R. Kirsch 9781628729863
RRP: £15.99£10.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628729863Author Donald R. KirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 210mm... -
Armies of Pestilence: The Impact of Pandemics on History by R.S. Bray
RRP: £23.50£17.84The global outbreak of Covid-19 appears to be unprecedented in a world which has not suffered a serious pandemic for a century, while society had almost forgotten the enormous impact of highly infectious diseases throughout history. Pestilence, however,... -
A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Healing Arts of Greece and Rome by J. C. McKeown
RRP: £15.99£11.61There are few disciplines as exciting and forward-looking as medicine. Unfortunately, however, many modern practitioners have rather lost sight of the origins of their discipline. A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities aspires to make good this lapse... -
Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century by W. F. Bynum
RRP: £24.99£19.30Prior to the nineteenth century, the practice of medicine in the Western world was as much art as science. But, argues W. F. Bynum, 'modern' medicine as practiced today is built upon foundations that were firmly established between 1800 and the beginning... -
Innovation in Chinese Medicine by Elisabeth Hsu 9780521182591
RRP: £38.99£32.68In the West ideas about Chinese medicine are commonly associated with traditional therapies and ancient practices which have survived, unchanging, since time immemorial. Originally published in 2001, this volume, edited by Elizabeth Hsu, demonstrates... -
Medical Firsts: From Hippocrates to the Human Genome by Robert E. Adler 9780471401759
£22.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471401759Author Robert E. AdlerFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company -
Medieval Medicine: A Reader by Faith Wallis 9781442601031
RRP: £42.00£35.97Medical knowledge and practice changed profoundly during the medieval period. In this collection of over 100 primary sources, many translated for the first time, Faith Wallis reveals the dynamic world of medicine in the Middle Ages that has been largely... -
The Madness of Fear: A History of Catatonia by Edward Shorter 9780190881191
RRP: £45.49£29.60What are the real disease entities in psychiatry? This is a question that has bedeviled the study of the mind for more than a century yet it is low on the research agenda of psychiatry. Basic science issues such as neuroimaging, neurochemistry, and... -
A History of Plant Medicine: Western Herbal Medicine from the Ancient Greeks to the Modern Day by Christina Stapley 9781801520416
RRP: £40.00£33.59A comprehensive guide detailing the story of healing with herbs from pre-history to modern times. Drawing on her decades of experience as an established herbalist and historian, Christina Stapley presents an encyclopaedic and accessible guide to the... -
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox by William H. Foege 9780520274471
RRP: £21.00£16.63A story of courage and risk-taking, "House on Fire" tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular triumph of medicine and public health. Part... -
Spitting Blood: The history of tuberculosis by Helen Bynum
RRP: £12.99£9.09Tuberculosis is characterized as a social disease and few have been more inextricably linked with human history. There is evidence from the archaeological record that Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its human hosts have been together for a very long time... -
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound Wendy Moore 9781474602310
RRP: £8.99£6.20Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could offer by way of pain relief was a large swig of brandy... -
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers by Joanna Bourke 9780199689422
RRP: £22.99£17.52Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. ... -
Hildegard of Bingen's Medicine by Wighard Strehlow 9780939680443
RRP: £14.99£9.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939680443Author Wighard StrehlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Bear & CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Philadelphia Chromosome by Jessica Wapner
£13.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615191970Author Jessica WapnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint The Experiment LLCPublisher The Experiment LLCWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)... -
Cicely Saunders: A Life and Legacy by David Clark
RRP: £45.49£33.29Born at the end of World War One into a prosperous London family, Cicely Saunders struggled at school before gaining entry to Oxford University to read Politics, Philosophy and Economics. As World War Two gained momentum, she quit academic study to train... -
Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-1800: A Source Book by Peter Elmer 9780719067372
RRP: £19.99£18.22Health, disease and society in Europe 1500-1800 considers how the body was viewed by the medical profession from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, and challenges established ideas in the field of medical history. It examines the provision of medical... -
Hygiene, Volume I: Books 1-4 by Galen
RRP: £24.95£23.39Antiquity's most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner.Galen of Pergamum (129-?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, medical historian, theoretician, and practitioner who wrote... -
Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives by Vinayak K. Prasad
RRP: £22.50£19.92Why medicine adopts ineffective or harmful medical practices only to abandon them-sometimes too late.Medications such as Vioxx and procedures such as vertebroplasty for back pain are among the medical "advances" that turned out to be dangerous or useless... -
Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse by Ethan Pollock
RRP: £23.49£23.23When so much in Russia has changed, the banya remains. For over one thousand years Russians of every economic class, political party, and social strata have treated bathing as a communal activity integrating personal hygiene and public health with... -
Medieval Military Medicine: From the Vikings to the High Middle Ages by Burfield, Brian 9781526754745
£20.35Soldiers of the Middle Ages faced razor-sharp swords and axes that could slice through flesh with gruesome ease, while spears and arrows were made to puncture both armour and the wearer, and even more sinister means of causing harm produced burns and... -
The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19 by Jeremy Brown
RRP: £27.99£23.61A physician and historian of science and medicine at the National Institute of Health tells the hidden story of how plagues and pandemics shaped the history of the Jewish people. Plagues, pandemics, and infectious diseases have shaped the history of...