History of Medicine
"The Western Medical Tradition"1800-2000
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An authoritative description of the important changes in Western medicine over the past two centuries. With 15 tables. Paperback, 628 pages. Size: 248 x 176 mm. Weight: 1051g.
Author: Bynum, William Hardy, Anne Jacyna, Stephen Lawrence, Christopher Tansey, E.M.
ISBN: 0521475651
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2006 (United States)
Readership: Tertiary Education (Us: College) History of Medicine
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"The Egg and Sperm Race"The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unravelled the Secrets of Sex, Life and Growth
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The story of the seventeenth-century scientists who solved one of the great mysteries of the age: generation and reproduction, and the discovery of human sperm and egg. This book sheds light on our very nature - what makes us, and how little we still know about one of the greatest miracles of Nature. Hardback, 352 pages. Size: 234 x 153 mm. Weight: 528g.
Author: Cobb, Matthew
ISBN: 0743276094
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"The Western Medical Tradition 800 B.C.-1800 A.D"800 Bc-1800 Ad
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It provides a much-needed account of the very latest historical scholarship. With 5 line figures 66 halftones 4 maps 20 tables. Paperback, 570 pages. Size: 247 x 177 mm. Weight: 977g.
Author: Conrad, Lawrence Neve, Michael (The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine) Nutton, Vivian Porter, Roy Wear, A.
ISBN: 0521475643
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 1995 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Medicine
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"The Selfish Cell"An Evolutionary Defeat
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An evolutionary defeat. With illustrations. Hardback, 104 pages. Weight: 301g.
Author: Conti, Matteo
ISBN: 1402086415
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
Date: 2008 (Netherlands)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Medicine
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"The Little Book of Medical Breakthroughs"
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Explains over 100 seminal discoveries, inventions and theories that have shaped the history of medical practice. Presenting a range of medical breakthroughs, this book covers a variety of topics, including artificial limbs used in Ancient Egypt, modern-day X-rays, immunisation and sanitation. With over 20 b&w line drawings/graphs/figs. Paperback, 224 pages. Size: 170 x 140 mm. Weight: 333g.
Author: Craft, Naomi
ISBN: 184773068X
Publisher: New Holland Publishers Ltd
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"Roman Medicine"
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"Revealing History (Paperback)" series; For anyone with an interest in ancient Rome or the history of medicine. With 100ill.. Paperback, 176 pages. Size: 248 x 173 mm. Weight: 680g.
Author: Cruse, Audrey
ISBN: 0752414615
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"Complete Herbal"
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"Wordsworth Reference" series; This work offers remedies for all the ills known to 17th century society. Together with an alphabetical section on herbs, their provenance and properties, it includes The English Physician and Family Dispensary, which provides an astrologo-physical discourse of the human virtues of the body. With index. New ed. Paperback, 624 pages. Size: 198 x 126 mm. Weight: 366g.
Author: Culpeper, Nicholas Gent
ISBN: 1853263451
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Date: 1995 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"Raising the Dead"The Men Who Created Frankenstein
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Presents the story of the science of galvanism - named after the Italian scientist Luigi Galvini who had conducted the original experiments - a movement that investigated the theory of 'animal electricity', a unifying vital spirit that animates us all, its leaders believing that they stood on the brink of immortality. With illustrations. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 198 x 129 mm. Weight: 300g.
Author: Dougan, Andy
ISBN: 1841586706
Publisher: Birlinn General
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"Bodily Matters"The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907
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"Radical Perspectives" series; Explores the anti-vaccination movement that emerged in England in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth in response to government-mandated smallpox vaccination. This title shows that those for and against the vaccine had very different ideas about how human bodies worked and how best to safeguard them from disease. With 12 illustrations. Paperback, 272 pages. Size: 240 x 167 mm. Weight: 92g.
Author: Durbach, Nadja
ISBN: 0822334232
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 2005 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Medicine
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"Bull's Eye"Unraveling the Mystery of Lyme Disease
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In this riveting account of medical sleuthing, Dr Jonathan Edlow tells the history of the discovery of Lyme disease over centuries and continents. With 20 illustrations. New ed. Paperback, 304 pages. Size: 233 x 165 mm. Weight: 442g.
Author: Edlow, Jonathan A.
ISBN: 0300103700
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date: 2004 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Medicine
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"The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine"
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A fascinating survey of the key moments of post-war medical discovery Concludes with a genuinely original commentary on the state of medicine today With illustrations. New ed. Paperback, 501 pages. Size: 197 x 126 mm. Weight: 423g.
Author: Fanu, James Le
ISBN: 0349112800
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Date: 2000 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"Medicine's 10 Greatest Discoveries"
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"Yale Nota Bene" series; The authors have chosen to document what they consider to be the ten medical discoveries that have most affected humanity's welfare. This text aims to interest the general reader and contains entertaining stories of ambition, jealously, lies and fraud in the name of science. With 15 illustrations. New ed. Paperback, 296 pages. Size: 200 x 130 mm. Weight: 230g.
Author: Friedman, Meyer Friedland, Gerald W.
ISBN: 0300082789
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date: 2000 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"Three Treatises on the Nature of Science"On the Sects for Beginners, an Outline for Empiricism, on Medical Experience
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Walzer, R. (trans.) Hardback, 148 pages. Size: 235 x 159 mm. Weight: 375g.
Author: Galen
ISBN: 091514591X
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Date: 1985 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"The Evolution of Chinese Medicine"Northern Song Dynasty, 960-1127
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"Needham Research Institute Series" series; Offers an overview of the crucial second stage in the evolution of Chinese medicine by examining the changes in Chinese medicine during the pivotal era of the Song dynasty. This volume is suitable for Sinologists and scholars of the history of medicine alike. With 3 black & white illustrations, 13 black & white tables, 3 black & white line drawings. Hardback, 272 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 559g.
Author: Goldschmidt, Asaf
ISBN: 0415426553
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Medicine
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"Circumcision"A History of the World's Most Controversial Surgery
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This worldwide history of circumcision, from ancient times to the present, looks at the procedure as initiation, religious and social ritual, and indicator of ethnic and social status. Medical historian David Gollaher tells the strange history of medicine's oldest enigma and most persistent ritual. With illustrations. Paperback, 272 pages. Size: 229 x 153 mm. Weight: 367g.
Author: Gollaher, David L.
ISBN: 0465026532
Publisher: The Perseus Books Group
Date: 2001 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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