History of Medicine
"Vaccine"The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver
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In 1796, as smallpox ravaged Europe, Edward Jenner injected a child with a benign version of the disease, then exposed the child to the deadly virus itself. The boy proved resistant to smallpox and Jenner's risky experiment produced the earliest vaccination. This title reveals the history of vaccination. With illustrations. Hardback, 512 pages. Size: 238 x 168 mm. Weight: 896g.
Author: Allen, Arthur
ISBN: 0393059111
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Ltd
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"Quiet Killers"The Fall and Rise of Deadly Diseases
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The Fall and Rise of Deadly Diseases. With bird flu a very present threat, this is a timely and important look at the impact of 'quiet killers' through the ages. Writer and infectious diseases specialist Dr Robert Baker takes a fascinating look at the history of deadly diseases, and discusses their future impact in a changing world. With 12 b&w illustrations. Hardback, 256 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 788g.
Author: Baker, Robert
ISBN: 0750941081
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"Needles, Herbs, Gods and Ghosts"China, Healing and the West to 1848
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As Westerners struggled to understand new peoples unfamiliar to them, how did they make sense of equally unfamiliar concepts and practices of healing? This title takes the reader to the 13th century to uncover the story of the West's earliest known encounters with Chinese understandings of illness and healing. With 30 halftones. New ed. Paperback, 480 pages. Size: 234 x 155 mm. Weight: 69g.
Author: Barnes, Linda L.
ISBN: 0674023978
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Medicine
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"Healing Threads"Traditional Medicines of the Highlands and Islands
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Many writers on the Highlands and Islands of Scotland have given tantalising glimpses of a local healing tradition that combines common sense and mysticism in a vigorous blend. 'Healing Threads' offers a detailed view of that whole tradition. Paperback, 320 pages. Size: 216 x 138 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Beith, Mary
ISBN: 1841582778
Publisher: Birlinn General
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"Madness to Mental Illness: a History of the Royal College of Psychiatrists"
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Presents the history of the College as an organisation, from the creation of the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane in 1841, and follows its development through various name changes and the receipt of two Royal Charters. With illustrations. Hardback, 192 pages. Weight: 503g.
Author: Bewley, Thomas
ISBN: 1904671357
Publisher: Rcpsych Publications
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"What Killed Jane Austen?"And Other Medical Mysteries
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Jane Austen, the much-loved author of Emma and Pride and Prejudice, was just 42 when she died after a mysterious illness. But what killed her? And what was the link between her death and the life of John F Kennedy? This work features a series of sometimes famous and often bizarre stories. Paperback, 192 pages. Size: 198 x 125 mm. Weight: 300g.
Author: Biro, George Leavesley, Jim
ISBN: 0752443100
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"Alternative Medicine?"A History
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With 23 black and white integrated halftones. Hardback, 264 pages. Size: 196 x 129 mm. Weight: 379g.
Author: Bivins, Roberta
ISBN: 0199218870
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"Walking London's Medical History"
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A guide to the history and development of medicine. This title includes little known, surprising facts about medicine and healthcare. It is fully illustrated with both contemporary and modern images, and maps. With illustrations (chiefly col.), maps. Paperback, 231 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Black, Nick
ISBN: 1853156191
Publisher: Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"Plagues and Poxes"The Impact of Human History on Epidemic Disease
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With illustrations. New ed. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 152 x 152 mm. Weight: 426g.
Author: Bollet, Alfred Jay
ISBN: 188879979X
Publisher: Demos Medical Publishing
Date: 2004 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"Penicillin Man"Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution
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Penicillin revolutionized healthcare and turned the modest, self-effacing Alexander Fleming into a world hero. This book tells the story of the man and his discovery set against a background of the transformation of medical research from 19th-century individualism through to teamwork and modern-day international big business. With illustrations, portraits. New ed. Paperback, 288 pages. Size: 203 x 127 mm. Weight: 276g.
Author: Brown, Kevin
ISBN: 0750931531
Publisher: Npi Media Group
Date: 2005 (UK)
Readership: General History of Medicine
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"The Pox"The Life and Near Death of a Very Social Disease
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From almost the time when man first discovered the pleasures of sin, he has also experienced the torments of the Pox. Drawing on references from art and literature, stories of famous sufferers and medical documents, this book presents the history of syphilis and gonorrhoea, and their treatment, from the Renaissance to the antibiotic age. With 16 black and white illustrations. Hardback, 288 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 788g.
Author: Brown, Kevin
ISBN: 0750940417
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"Bitter Nemesis"The Intimate History of Strychnine
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Uncovering details and logistics from the earliest experiments performed in an era when proper scientific trials for testing various drugs were still in their infancy, this book explores strychnine's trial-and-error contributions to scientific, medical, and forensic developments. With 1 black & white illustrations, 21 colour illustrations, 21 black & white halftones. Paperback, 320 pages. Size: 236 x 161 mm. Weight: 471g.
Author: Buckingham, John
ISBN: 1420053159
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"Psychiatry"A Very Short Introduction
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"Very Short Introduction" series; Explains what psychiatry is and what it does. This book looks at the major illnesses and how they are treated, and outlines a brief history of the subject, focusing on the controversies that have inevitably surrounded it - from political abuse to the very existence or otherwise of both mental illness and 'normality'. With 15 b&w. Paperback, 144 pages. Size: 174 x 111 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Burns, Tom
ISBN: 0192807277
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Medicine
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"Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century"
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"Cambridge Studies in the History of Science" series; Basalla, George (ed.) Focusing on medicine in the hospitals, the community, and the laboratory, the author contends that the impact of science was more striking on the public face of medicine and the diagnostic skills of doctors than it was on their actual therapeutic capacities. He examines the parallel development of biomedical sciences. With 29 halftones. Paperback, 301 pages. Size: 228 x 152 mm. Weight: 415g.
Author: Bynum, W.F.
ISBN: 052127205X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 1994 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Medicine
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"The History of Medicine"A Very Short Introduction
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"Very Short Introductions" series; This Very Short Introduction explores the history of Western medicine, examining the key turning points, discoveries, and controversies in its rich history from classical times to the present. With 28 halftones. Paperback, 184 pages. Size: 174 x 111 mm. Weight: 987g.
Author: Bynum, William
ISBN: 019921543X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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