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Avicenna'S Medicine: A New Translation of the 11th-Century Canon with Practical Applications for Integrative Health Care by Mones Abu-Asab
RRP: £30.00£22.16A millennium after his life, Avicenna remains one of the most highly regarded physicians of all time. His Canon of Medicine, also known as the Qanun, is one of the most famous and influential books in the history of medicine, forming the basis of our... -
Cancer Virus: The story of Epstein-Barr Virus by Dorothy H. Crawford
RRP: £19.99£14.28The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was discovered in 1964. At the time, the very idea of a virus underlying a cancer was revolutionary. Cancer is, after all, not catching. Even now, the idea of a virus causing cancer surprises many people. But Epstein-Barr,... -
Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide, and Crime by Peter R Breggin 9780312565503
RRP: £22.99£14.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312565503Author Peter R BregginFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
The Capsarius by Simon Turney 9781801108928
RRP: £18.99£16.78Warrior and combat medic, Titus Cervianus, must lead a legion and quell the uprisings in Egypt in a new Roman adventure from Simon Turney. Titus Cervianus is no ordinary soldier. And the Twenty Second is no ordinary legion... Egypt. 25 BC. A... -
Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History Of The Modern Menopause by Louise Foxcroft
RRP: £9.99£6.70For over two thousand years, attitudes to the menopause have created dread, shame and confusion. This meticulously researched and always entertaining book traces the history of 'the change of life' from its appearance in classical texts, via the medical... -
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
RRP: £18.00£11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780767929714Author Candice MillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House... -
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens 9780820354750
£25.33The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies,... -
The Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto by Maria Ciesielska 9781644697269
RRP: £21.99£17.06Based on years of archival research, 'The Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto' is the most detailed study ever undertaken into the fate of more than 800 Jewish doctors who devoted themselves, in many cases until the day they died, to the care of the sick and... -
The Black Death and the Transformation of the West by David Herlihy
RRP: £22.95£18.38In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new... -
The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease by Kenneth F. Kiple 9780521530262
RRP: £29.99£25.85The Cambridge World History of Human Disease (CWHHD) was first published by Cambridge University Press in 1993 and reprinted in 2001. Part VIII, the last section of the work, comprises a history and description of the world's major diseases of yesterday... -
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 9781400052189
RRP: £18.99£8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 2010 Indie Lit Award for NonFiction 2010 and Ambassador Book Award in American Studies 2011 and American Association for the Advancement of Science's Young Adult... -
Anxiety: A Short History by Allan V. Horwitz
RRP: £25.00£22.03More people today report feeling anxious than ever before-even while living in relatively safe and prosperous modern societies. Almost one in five people experiences an anxiety disorder each year, and more than a quarter of the population admits to an... -
Wonder Drug: The Hidden Victims of America’s Secret Thalidomide Scandal by Jennifer Vanderbes
RRP: £25.00£16.43Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-Fiction The shocking, never-before-told story of America's thalidomide victims In Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears. She... -
Bourgery. Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery by Jean-Marie Le Minor 9783836568982
RRP: £60.00£44.95We owe a great debt to Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797-1849) for his Atlas of Anatomy, which was not only a massive event in medical history, but also remains one of the most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated anatomical treatises ever published... -
Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union by Mie Nakachi
RRP: £35.99£30.00Drawing on never before used archival materials, Replacing the Dead exposes the history of Soviet and Russian abortion policy. It is not unusual for nations recovering from wars to incentivize their populations to raise their birthrates. The... -
Pharmageddon by David Healy
RRP: £25.00£19.59This searing indictment, David Healy's most comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, tackles problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. Healy, who was the first to... -
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic by Richard A. McKay
RRP: £31.00£30.59The search for a "patient zero" popularly understood to be the first infected case in an epidemic has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the emergence of... -
Medieval Plants and their Uses by Michael Brown
RRP: £25.00£17.62Plants were an essential part of medieval life. Most people lived in houses made of wood and thatch, which often accidentally burned down when they cooked their food or huddled over wood fires to keep warm. People wore linen clothing dyed with plants... -
Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy by Robert Bud 9780199541614
RRP: £45.49£35.64Penicillin is the drug of the twentieth century. It was the first of the antibiotics that, for decades after the Second World War, underpinned a popular belief that infectious disease had at last met its match. With the emergence of 'superbugs' in recent... -
Containing Trauma: Nursing Work in the First World War by Christine Hallett 9780719085963
RRP: £19.99£17.61In this lucid and cogently-argued book, Christine Hallett explores the nature of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War. She argues that nurses found meaning in their complex and stressful work by... -
Smallpox: The Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer by D A Henderson, M
RRP: £14.99£11.53With a New Introduction by Phillip K. Peterson, M.D., author of Microbes: The Life-Changing Story of Germs For more than 3000 years, hundreds of millions of people have died or been left permanently scarred or blind by the relentless, incurable disease... -
White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America by David Herzberg
RRP: £24.00£20.12The contemporary opioid crisis is widely seen as new and unprecedented. Not so. It is merely the latest in a long series of drug crises stretching back over a century. In White Market Drugs, David Herzberg explores these crises and the drugs that fueled... -
Opium: Reality's Dark Dream by Thomas Dormandy 9780300175325
RRP: £32.50£31.98Is opium a vile curse on society, a blessed medicine from God, or possibly both? This fresh history offers surprising new insights. Opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin have destroyed, corrupted, and killed individuals, families, communities,... -
Human Guinea Pigs: Experimentation on Man M H Pappworth 9781032442259
RRP: £90.00£78.11First published in 1967, Human Guinea Pigs is a report by a consultant physician on the implications of medical research on both the medical profession and on the men, women and children who are the subjects of medical experiments. It suggests that there... -
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness by Christopher Lane 9780300143171
RRP: £17.99£17.57How a handful of psychiatrists, with the help of the pharmaceutical industry, turned the ordinary emotion of shyness into an illness In the 1970s, a small group of leading psychiatrists met behind closed doors and literally rewrote the book on their... -
Viral Pandemics: From Smallpox to COVID-19 Rae-Ellen Kavey 9780367439644
RRP: £135.00£117.68Written by a public health practitioner and a medical historian, Viral Pandemics explores the terrifying world of viruses as the cause of all acute pandemics since 1900, including the COVID-19 pandemic. The book illuminates the critical dual roles of... -
Making Medicines: A Brief History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals by Stuart Anderson 9780857110992
RRP: £27.00£26.70Making Medicines is a concise, chronological discussion of the history of therapeutics and pharmacy from the Egyptians through to the present day. It focuses on the discovery and uses of medicines to treat illness through the ages, and the evolving role... -
The Radcliffe Infirmary by Andrew Moss
RRP: £12.99£9.62The Radcliffe Infirmary holds a special place in the history of medicine and in the hearts of the people of Oxfordshire. It was here that penicillin was first used to treat infections, the first accident service was set up and a flying squad to go to the... -
Murder and the Making of English CSI by Ian Burney 9781421420400
RRP: £22.50£19.92Crime scene investigation-or CSI-has captured the modern imagination. On television screens and in newspapers, we follow the exploits of forensic officers wearing protective suits and working behind police tape to identify and secure physical evidence... -
The Headache Godfather: The Story of Dr. Seymour Diamond and How He Revolutionized the Treatment of Headaches by Seymour Diamond 9781629145389
RRP: £18.99£15.60Learn the story of a man who lived the American dream and improved the quality of life for thousands of headache sufferers.The Headache Godfather traces the life of Seymour Diamond, MD, who was born in 1925, the son of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine and... -
Ireland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries James Kelly 9781138261976
RRP: £32.99£29.16The story of early modern medicine, with its extremes of scientific brilliance and barbaric practice, has long held a fascination for scholars. The great discoveries of Harvey and Jenner sit incongruously with the persistence of Galenic theory,... -
Understanding the NHS: How to Get the Most from Our National Health Service by Stein, Andy 9781399007962
RRP: £14.99£10.95The NHS is more than a good idea. It is beautiful. And it is you. The importance of the NHS - and the public's affection for it - cannot be overstated, as seen through the COVID-19 pandemic. The author and his family of medics have lived and breathed the... -
A Natural History of Homosexuality by Francis Mark Mondimore
RRP: £25.50£22.44A terrible sin, a gift from the gods, a mental illness, a natural human variation--over the centuries homosexuality has been defined in all these ways. Now, in a generous work which synthesizes research in biology, history, psychology, and politics,... -
How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea by Sandra Eder
RRP: £24.00£23.03An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history. Today, a world without "gender" is hard to imagine. Gender is at the center of contentious political and social debates, shapes policy decisions, and informs our everyday... -
Health, Civilization and the State: A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times by Dorothy Porter 9780415200363
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States from the ancient world through to the... -
That Jealous Demon, My Wretched Health: Disease, Death and Composers Jonathan Noble (Royalty Account) 9781783272587
RRP: £30.00£25.85Despite much triumph in adversity, illness fuelling composition is a misconception. The health - and especially deaths - of composers excite controversy. Was Mozart really poisoned? Did Tchaikovsky commit suicide? How did Beethoven lose his hearing?... -
Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless by Laurah Norton 9780306828805
RRP: £30.00£22.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306828805Author Laurah NortonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 160mm *... -
Rats, Lice and History: The Classic Account of Infectious Disease and Human History by Hans Zinsser
RRP: £9.99£6.75"Swords and lances, arrows, machine guns and even high explosives have had far less power over the fate of nations than the typhus louse, the plague flea and the yellow-fever mosquito." Both shocking and entertaining, this masterpiece of popular... -
Anatomy: A Matter of Death and Life by Tayce Phillipson 9781910682463
RRP: £14.99£12.55History and science collide in the fascinating history of anatomy, from artistic explorations by Leonardo da Vinci and the full-body papier-mache model produced by Louis Auzoux to the crimes of William Burke and William Hare in 19th-century Edinburgh. ... -
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and Wow it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
RRP: £18.00£10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594482694Author Steven JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)...