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COVID-19: A History by Jacalyn Duffin
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.78For two years the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the world. The physician and medical historian Jacalyn Duffin presents a global history of the virus, with a focus on Canada.Duffin describes the... -
History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction by Jacalyn Duffin
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.04Jacalyn Duffin's History of Medicine is one of the leading texts used to teach the history of the medical profession. Emphasizing broad concepts rather than names and dates, it has also been widely... -
Clio in the Clinic: History in Medical Practice by Jacalyn Duffin 9780802037985
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £31.31Sometimes, history can solve a medical mystery; at other times, it can point to the right treatment or console a despairing doctor by demonstrating a timeless connection to unchanging aspects of... -
Langstaff: A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life by Jacalyn Duffin 9780802074140
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44A unique and readable microhistory of an ordinary physician and his community during a period of revolutionary medical change. Duffin bases her insights on a detailed computer-assisted analysis of 40... -
Lovers and Livers: Disease Concepts in History by Jacalyn Duffin 9780802038050
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Can a disease be an idea? A theory? Does disease exist without a patient to suffer from it? In Lovers and Livers, Jacalyn Duffin provides a lively overview of the ideas around disease. She introduces... -
Medical Saints: Cosmas and Damian in a Postmodern World by Jacalyn Duffin 9780199743179
RRP: £45.49Booksplease Price: £33.00This book is an exploration of illness and healing experiences in contemporary society through the veneration of saints: primarily the twin doctors Saints Cosmas and Damian. It also follows the... -
SARS in Context: Memory, History, and Policy: Volume 27 by Jacalyn Duffin
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21An analysis of the 2003 SARS outbreak by physicians involved in the crisis, historians, and policy experts.An analysis of the 2003 SARS outbreak by physicians involved in the crisis, historians, and... -
Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World by Jacalyn Duffin 9780195336504
Booksplease Price: £34.96It is now recognized that spirituality plays an active role in the experience of illness and healing, even when the sufferer turns to medicine for help. The relationship of medicine to the miracles... -
To See with a Better Eye: A Life of R. T. H. Laennec by Jacalyn Duffin 9780691606965
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.80Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826) is best known for his invention of the stethoscope, one of medicine's most powerful symbols. Histories, novels, and films have cloaked his life in... -
Attributing Excellence in Medicine: The History of the Nobel Prize by Nils Hansson 9789004393974
Booksplease Price: £88.60Attributing Excellence in Medicine discusses the aura around the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It analyzes the social processes and contingent factors leading to recognition and... -
Transforming Medical Education: Historical Case Studies of Teaching, Learning, and Belonging in Medicine by Delia Gavrus 9780228010722
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.32In recent decades, researchers have studied the cultures of medicine and the ways in which context and identity shape both individual experiences and structural barriers in medical education. The... -
More Than Hot: A Short History of Fever by Christopher Hamlin 9781421415024
Booksplease Price: £28.18Christopher Hamlin's magisterial work engages a common experience-fever-in all its varieties and meanings. Reviewing the representations of that condition from ancient times to the present, More Than... -
The Bleeding Disease: Hemophilia and the Unintended Consequences of Medical Progress by Stephen Pemberton 9781421401157
Booksplease Price: £50.83By the 1970s, a therapeutic revolution, decades in the making, had transformed hemophilia from an obscure hereditary malady into a manageable bleeding disorder. Yet the glory of this achievement was... -
Locating Medical History: The Stories and Their Meanings by Frank Huisman
Booksplease Price: £38.72The issues constituting the history of medicine are consequential: how societies organize health care, how individuals or states relate to sickness, how we understand our own identity and agency as... -
Diseases in the District of Maine 1772 - 1820: The Unpublished Work of Jeremiah Barker, a Rural Physician in New England by Richard J. Kahn
Booksplease Price: £34.71Jeremiah Barker practiced medicine in rural Maine up until his retirement in 1818. Throughout his practice of fifty years, he documented his constant efforts to keep up with and contribute to the... -
The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care by Hannah Wunsch
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.44"A perfectly pitched medical mystery that will captivate you from page one."-Wes Ely, MD, MPH, author of Every Deep-Drawn Breath, winner of the 2022 Christopher Award for Literature.A suspenseful,... -
The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care Hannah Wunsch 9781778402135
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31"A perfectly pitched medical mystery that will captivate you from page one."-Wes Ely, MD, MPH, author of Every Deep-Drawn Breath, winner of the 2022 Christopher Award for Literature.A suspenseful,... -
Poison in Small Measure: Dr. Christopherson and the Cure for Bilharzia by Ann Crichton-Harris 9789004175419
Booksplease Price: £98.35In 1917, in Khartoum, Dr. J.B. Christopherson experimentally treated seventy bilharzia patients with injections of antimony tartrate, an early chemotherapy. His was the first successful treatment. ... -
The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life by Nancy Tomes 9780674357082
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £24.67AIDS. Ebola. "Killer microbes." All around us the alarms are going off, warning of the danger of new, deadly diseases. And yet, as Nancy Tomes reminds us in her absorbing book, this is really nothing...