History of Medicine
"Shyness"How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness
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In the 1970s, a small group of leading psychiatrists met behind closed doors and literally rewrote the book on their profession. The result was a windfall for the pharmaceutical industry and a massive conflict of interest for psychiatry at large. This book provides a behind-the-scenes account of what really happened and why. With 30 b&w illustrations. Hardback, 288 pages. Size: 203 x 127 mm. Weight: 530g.
Author: Lane, Christopher
ISBN: 0300124465
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly History of Medicine
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"The Mould in Dr. Florey's Coat"
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* Subtitled 'The Remarkable True Story of the Penicillin Miracle', this book is a wonderful combination of modern narrative history and popular science. With illustrations, ports.. New ed. Paperback, 400 pages. Size: 198 x 126 mm. Weight: 314g.
Author: Lax, Eric
ISBN: 0349117683
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"Human Remains"Dissection and Its Histories
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Looks particularly at the activities of British surgeons in nineteenth-century Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in which a ready supply of bodies was available. This book tells a story of how medical men obtained the corpses upon which they worked before the use of human remains was regulated. With 12 b&w illustrations. Hardback, 224 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 788g.
Author: MacDonald, Helen
ISBN: 0300116993
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"The Killer Bean of Calabar and Other Stories"Poisons and Poisoners
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Historically difficult substances to trace, poisons have been used by many for their own dastardly purposes. But the truly great poisoners are those who make selective use of poisons to save human lives. With ripping yarns, unusual views of famous people, Macinnis explains the whys and wherefores of poisons and poisoning. With illustrations. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 195 x 130 mm. Weight: 298g.
Author: Macinnis, Peter
ISBN: 1741141850
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Date: 2004 (Australia)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"Post Mortem"Solving History's Great Medical Mysteries
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Solving Historys Great Medical Mysteries. Examines medical mysteries in the lives and deaths of 12 famous men and women. With illustrations. Paperback, 200 pages. Size: 230 x 162 mm. Weight: 863g.
Author: Mackowiak, Philip A.
ISBN: 1930513895
Publisher: American College of Physicians
Date: 2007 (United States)
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"A History of Medicine"
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Stressing major themes in the history of medicine, this Second Edition explores the events, methodologies, and theories that shaped medical practices in decades past and in modern clinical practice. It highlights practices of civilizations around the world and research of pioneering scientists and physicians who contributed to our current understanding of health and disease. New sections cover preventive and alternative medicine, medical education for women, miasma and contagion theories, the threat of epidemic disease, changing patterns of morbidity and mortality, public health and sanitary reforms, the high cost of medical care, With illustrations. 2 rev ed. Hardback, 632 pages. Size: 264 x 182 mm. Weight: 1297g.
Author: Magner, Lois N.
ISBN: 0824740742
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2005 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"A Brief History of Psychiatry"
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With full colour dust jacket, colour plate section. Paperback, Size: 136 x 215 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Maltby, John Wingate
ISBN: 1841144878
Publisher: Halsgrove
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"The Plague Race"A Tale of Fear, Science and Heroism
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Spiced with anecdotes, facts and chilling reconstructions, this investigation of the plague in the modern world tells the story of a tense race between two rival scientists: Alexandre Yersin - rigorous, solitary, cerebral - and the suave Kitasaka, unscrupulous, enigmatic, careless. New ed. Paperback, 288 pages. Size: 197 x 130 mm. Weight: 182g.
Author: Marriott, Edward
ISBN: 0330483196
Publisher: Pan MacMillan
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing"
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Galen is an important physician of the Roman imperial era. Through Galen's case histories, this title presents a systematic investigation of Galen's clinical practice. It illuminates interplay among the craft of healing, social class, professional competition, ethnicity, and gender. With illustrations. Hardback, 336 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 545g.
Author: Mattern, Susan P.
ISBN: 0801888352
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly History of Medicine
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"The History of Medications for Women"Materia Medica Woman
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An illustrated history of medications for women in all the great cultures and civilizations from ancient times to the end of the 20th century. It ranges from the origin of the Rx symbol and the earliest uses of ergometrine, lettuce and mummy medicine to chemotherapy and family planning. With illustrations, bibliography, indices. Special. Hardback, 570 pages. Weight: 1610g.
Author: O'Dowd, Michael J.
ISBN: 1850700028
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Date: 2001 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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"Blood and Guts"A Short History of Medicine
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Mankind's battle to stay alive is an enduring subject. Written by one of Britain's most respected medical historians, this title compresses into a tiny span a lifetime spent thinking about a millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. With b&w illustrations, further reading, index. New ed. Paperback, 224 pages. Size: 216 x 129 mm. Weight: 210g.
Author: Porter, Roy
ISBN: 0141010649
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
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"Bodies Politic"Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900
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"Picturing History" series; In this work, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in death, disease and health, and at images of the healing arts in Britain from the mid-17th to the 20th century. With 121 b&w and 32 colour illustrations. Paperback, 328 pages. Size: 231 x 157 mm. Weight: 712g.
Author: Porter, Roy
ISBN: 1861891652
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Medicine
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"Ordered to Care"The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850-1945
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"Cambridge History of Medicine" series; With 18ill.21tabs.. Paperback, 304 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 410g.
Author: Reverby, Susan
ISBN: 0521335655
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 1987 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Medicine
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"Heart and Scalpel"A History of Cardiac Surgery
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A History of Cardiac Surgery. With facsimiles, portraits. New ed. Hardback, 320 pages. Size: 230 x 150 mm. Weight: 753g.
Author: Richardson, Robert
ISBN: 1899163700
Publisher: Quiller Press
Date: 2001 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Medicine
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"The Story of Surgery"An Historical Commentary
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An Historical Commentary. A revised and enlarged edition of this informative, comprehensive and fascinating history of surgery, containing much new material particularly on abdominal surgery - the sphere of the 'general' surgeon - and a full bibliography of some 800 entries. With 30 b&w illustrations. Hardback, 328 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 705g.
Author: Richardson, Robert
ISBN: 1904057462
Publisher: Quiller Publishing Ltd
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Medicine
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