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The Discovery of Insulin: Special Centenary Edition by Michael Bliss 9781487529130
RRP: £24.99£21.67The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921-2 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease. Insulin, discovered by the Canadian research team of Frederick Banting, Charles Best, James Collip, and John... -
Healing, Disease and Placebo in Graeco-Roman Asclepius Temples: A Neurocognitive Approach by Olympia Panagiotidou 9781800501423
£26.13Healing, Disease and Placebo in Graeco-Roman Asclepius Temples narrates a story of religious healing that took place at sanctuaries dedicated to the ancient Greek god Asclepius, the so called asclepieia. The Asclepius cult, which attracted supplicants... -
The History of MDMA by Prof Torsten Passie
RRP: £45.00£40.87As recent statistics show, more than 100 million people on the planet have used MDMA. After cannabis, it is the second most used drug worldwide. Yet there are many misconceptions surrounding the drug, which have affected attempts to use it as a... -
Mutter Museum Historic Medical Photographs by Laura Lindgren 9780922233281
RRP: £39.99£27.91The first book on the Mutter Museum contain artful images of the museum's fascinating exhibits shot by contemporary fine art photographers. Here, the focus is on the museum's archive of rare historic photographs, most of which have never been seen by the... -
The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer by Jennet Conant
RRP: £18.99£5.11On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey,an American... -
Sir Thomas Browne: The Opium of Time by Gavin Francis
RRP: £18.99£16.32In this book, Gavin Francis writes about the resonance for him as a medic in reading the work of early modern polymath Sir Thomas Browne. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English physician, wordsmith, and polymath who contributed hundreds of words... -
The Social Transformation of American Medicine (Revised Edition): The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry by Paul Starr 9780465093021
£24.32Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, The Social Transformation of American Medicine is a landmark history of the American health care system, examining how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government... -
Romanticism and Colonial Disease by Alan Bewell
RRP: £28.00£24.94Colonial experience was profoundly structured by disease, as expansion brought people into contact with new and deadly maladies. Pathogens were exchanged on a scale far greater than ever before. Native populations were decimated by wave after wave of Old... -
Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907 by Nadja Durbach
RRP: £21.99£19.19Bodily Matters explores the anti-vaccination movement that emerged in England in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth in response to government-mandated smallpox vaccination. By requiring a painful and sometimes dangerous medical procedure for... -
The Mind's Past by Michael S. Gazzaniga
RRP: £23.00£18.10Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative? In this ground-breaking work, Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the world's foremost cognitive neuroscientists, shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing feat of... -
Downs: The history of a disability by David Wright
RRP: £16.99£12.59For 150 years, Down's Syndrome has constituted the archetypal mental disability, easily recognisable by distinct facial anomalies and physical stigmata. In a narrow medical sense, Down's syndrome is a common disorder caused by the presence of all or part... -
Laboratory Disease: Robert Koch's Medical Bacteriology by Christoph Gradmann 9780801893131
£37.94In the nineteenth century, the new field of medical bacteriology identified microorganisms and explained how they spread disease. This book interweaves the history of this discipline and the biography of one of its founders, Nobel Prize-winning German... -
Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England by Elaine Leong
RRP: £28.00£27.39Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified by... -
Contraception and Modern Ireland: A Social History, c. 1922–92 by Laura Kelly
RRP: £22.99£19.56Contraception was the subject of intense controversy in twentieth-century Ireland. Banned in 1935 and stigmatised by the Catholic Church, it was the focus of some of the most polarised debates before and after its legalisation in 1979. This is the first... -
Childcare, Health and Mortality in the London Foundling Hospital, 1741-1800: 'Left to the Mercy of the World' by Alysa Levene 9780719073557
RRP: £19.99£17.61Newly available in paperback, this thorough and engaging examination of an institution and its young charges is set in the wider social, cultural, demographic and medical context of the eighteenth century. By examining the often short lives of abandoned... -
Diseases in the Ancient Greek World by Mirko D. Grmek
RRP: £28.00£24.94What were the illnesses that plagued men, women, and children of the ancient world? Traditional approaches to this subject have often relied exclusively on literary evidence, but ancient texts are extraordinarily difficult to interpret. Different... -
Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery by Elizabeth Haiken
RRP: £21.50£21.43Face lifts, nose jobs, breast implants, liposuction, collagen injections-the body at the end of the twentieth century has become endlessly mutable, and surgical alteration has become an accepted part of American culture. In Venus Envy, Elizabeth Haiken... -
A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples by Randall M. Packard 9781421420332
RRP: £33.00£29.92Over the past century, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in programs aimed at improving health on a global scale. Given the enormous scale and complexity of these lifesaving operations, why do millions of people in low-income countries... -
Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Kevin Siena
RRP: £32.50£31.98A revealing look at how the memory of the plague held the poor responsible for epidemic disease in eighteenth-century Britain "This work will be required reading in fields of research that do not often overlap such as the histories of medical thought,... -
A History of Haematology: From Herodotus to HIV by Shaun R. McCann
RRP: £68.00£66.54Blood has long been an object of intrigue for many of the world's philosophers and physicians, and references to it have existed since the earliest studies of human anatomy. Herodotus of Halicarnassus, whose writings 500 years before the birth of Christ... -
Frankie: The Woman Who Saved Millions from Thalidomide by James Essinger 9780750991919
RRP: £16.99£12.94Thalidomide: patented in Germany as a non-toxic cure-all for sleeplessness and morning sickness. A wonder drug with no side effects. We know differently now. Today, thalidomide is a byword for tragedy and drug reform - a sign of what happens when things... -
Speech and Speech Disorders in Western Thought before 1600 by Ynez Viote O'Neill 9780313210587
£55.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313210587Author Ynez Viote O'NeillFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity Gary B. Ferngren (Professor of History, Oregon State University and Professor of the History of Medicine, I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University) 9781421420066
RRP: £26.50£25.31Drawing on New Testament studies and recent scholarship on the expansion of the Christian church, Gary B. Ferngren presents a comprehensive historical account of medicine and medical philanthropy in the first five centuries of the Christian era. ... -
Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good: From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond by Cathy Gere
RRP: £26.00£21.70How should we weigh the costs and benefits of scientific research on humans? Is it right that a small group of people should suffer in order that a larger number can live better, healthier lives? Or is an individual truly sovereign, unable to be plotted... -
Deafness, Community and Culture in Britain: Leisure and Cohesion, 1945-95 by Martin Atherton 9780719099786
RRP: £19.99£17.61Setting a case study of deaf people's leisure practices in north-west England within a wider examination of communal deaf leisure across Britain, this book offers new insights into a misunderstood and misrepresented community. Available for the first... -
Medicine in the Middle Ages: Surviving the Times by Juliana Cummings
RRP: £19.99£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526779342Author Juliana CummingsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Pen and Sword HistoryPublisher Pen and Sword HistoryWeight(grams) 152g -
Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World by Sarah DiGregorio
RRP: £25.00£16.43"DiGregorio's storytelling is pitch-perfect; narrative and nursing, she understands, come from the same place and both are concerned with a deep understanding of character and plot....This is a brilliant book, and DiGregorio is a beautiful writer. Taking... -
Bodies of Evidence: Medicine and the Politics of the English Inquest, 1830-1926 by Ian Burney 9780801862403
RRP: £45.50£40.26In Bodies of Evidence, Ian Burney offers an important reinterpretation of the role of the scientific expert in the modern democratic state. At the core of this study lies the coroner's inquest-the ancient tribunal in English law held to account for... -
The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC to AD 1800 by Professor Lawrence I. Conrad 9780521475648
RRP: £37.99£32.80This text, written by members of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and first published in 1995, is designed to cover the history of western medicine from classical antiquity to 1800. As one guiding thread it takes, as its title suggests,... -
In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room: Travels Through Indian Medicine Aarathi Prasad 9781781254875
RRP: £8.99£7.93WINNER OF BEST POPULAR MEDICINE BOOK AT THE BMA MEDICAL BOOK AWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 JHALAK PRIZE The story of medicine in India is rich and complex: uniting cutting-edge technological developments with ancient cultural traditions. Aarathi... -
JOHN MARTIN LITTLEJOHN: An Enigma of Osteopathy by John O'Brien 9781848291386
RRP: £22.99£21.48J Martin Littlejohn was a person who stood literally and figuratively shoulder to shoulder with the founder of osteopathy, A T Still. A proud presbyterian Scot who made his career and reputation in the USA, only to have it questioned and discredited... -
Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550-1860 by Roy Porter 9780521557917
RRP: £25.99£21.99In his short but authoritative study, Roy Porter examines the impact of disease upon the English and their responses to it before the widespread availability and public provision of medical care. Professor Porter incorporates into the revised second... -
The Medical Book: From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons, 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine Clifford A. Pickover 9781402785856
RRP: £25.00£17.38Following his hugely successful "The Math Book" and "The Physics Book", Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology,... -
The Curious Cures Of Old England: Eccentric treatments, outlandish remedies and fearsome surgeries for ailments from the plague to the pox Nigel Cawthorne 9781472142450
RRP: £10.99£7.40Did you know that a child can be cured of the whooping cough by passing it under the belly of a donkey?The history of medicine in Britain is filled with the most bizarre and gruesome cures for many common ailments. Although enthusiastically supported by... -
Medicine: An Imperfect Science by Natasha Mcenroe 9781785512100
RRP: £40.00£29.12In Autumn 2019 a spectacular suite of new Medicine galleries is due to open at the Science Museum in London, representing the biggest and most ambitious project that the Museum has ever undertaken. This permanent exhibition will include the historic... -
Wounds in the Middle Ages Anne Kirkham 9781138245822
RRP: £53.99£46.87Wounds were a potent signifier reaching across all aspects of life in Europe in the middle ages, and their representation, perception and treatment is the focus of this volume. Following a survey of the history of medical wound treatment in the middle... -
Epidemics and History: Disease, Power and Imperialism by Sheldon J. Watts 9780300080872
RRP: £27.50£27.33This book is a major and wide-ranging study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity-plague, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, cholera, and yellow fever/malaria-over the last six centuries. It will become the standard account of the way diseases arising... -
The Metamorphosis of Autism: A History of Child Development in Britain by Bonnie Evans 9780719095924
RRP: £30.00£27.08This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What is autism and where has it come from? Increased diagnostic rates, the rise of the 'neurodiversity' movement, and growing autism journalism, have recently fuelled autism's... -
The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life by Steven G. Epstein
RRP: £27.00£26.47Offering an entryway into the distinctive worlds of sexual health and a window onto their spillover effects, sociologist Steven Epstein traces the development of the concept and parses the debates that swirl around it. Since the 1970s, health... -
Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Religion in Post-Reformation Scandinavia Ole Grell (The Open University, UK) 9781032402352
RRP: £39.99£35.06The close relationship between religion, medicine and natural philosophy in the post-Reformation period has been documented and explored in a body of research since the 1990s; however, the direct and continued impact of Melanchthonian natural philosophy...