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  • Sanitation in Panama
    William Crawford Gorgas
    Sanitation in Panama, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned cop...
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    24,75 €

  • The Sanitary Evolution of London
    Henry Jephson
    The Sanitary Evolution of London, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of...
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    32,92 €

  • Germs and governance
    This book addresses global concerns about microbial resistance. Combining historical case studies and first-hand practitioner accounts, it offers insights beyond current literature. Contributions from leading scholars, practitioners and policy makers explore outbreaks of MRSA and compare infection control measures in different case-study contexts. ...
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    43,96 €

  • Cold, hard steel
    Agnes Arnold-Forster
    Cold, hard steel anatomises the surgical stereotype in modern and contemporary Britain. It offers a new social, cultural and emotional history of this specialty, explores the development of its professional identity and foregrounds experiences of surgeons at work. ...
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    42,93 €

  • Digitizing Diagnosis
    Andrew S Lea
    A fascinating history of the first attempts to computerize medical diagnosis.Beginning in the 1950s, interdisciplinary teams of physicians, engineers, mathematicians, and philosophers began to explore the possible application of a new digital technology to one of the most central, and vexed, tasks of medicine: diagnosis. In Digitizing Diagnosis, Andrew Lea examines these effort...
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    67,06 €

  • Immigrant Physicians
    Ghazi Rayan MD
    Ghazi Rayan, MD delivers this pivotal and immersive history detailing the growth of medical progress and its connection to the movement of people and ideas across borders. From the desk of acclaimed speaker and academic Ghazi Rayan, MD comes a broad and ambitious work of both history and culture.Beginning with the origins of medical practice in ancient history and continuing to...
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    19,47 €

  • Immigrant Physicians
    Ghazi Rayan MD
    Ghazi Rayan, MD delivers this pivotal and immersive history detailing the growth of medical progress and its connection to the movement of people and ideas across borders. From the desk of acclaimed speaker and academic Ghazi Rayan, MD comes a broad and ambitious work of both history and culture.Beginning with the origins of medical practice in ancient history and continuing to...
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    28,41 €

  • Liber De Secretis Naturae
    Christopher Templesage / RAYMUNDI Lulli
    This is the complete set of books one through four.'Liber de Secretis Naturae,' by Ramon Llull, delves deep into the intertwined realms of alchemy, medicine, surgery, proto-chemistry, and early medieval science. This enigmatic work, believed to be a pseudo-Lullian creation originating from a clandestine medical school, uncovers the hidden secrets within these disciplines. With ...
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    97,36 €

  • Paediatrics in the Reichsuniversität Straßburg
    Aisling Shalvey
    Examines the experience of paediatric patients, and the staff who determined their treatment, in the Reichsuniversitat Strasbourg, a Nazi-run hospital in occupied France from 1941 to 1944. ...
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    135,38 €

  • Neuroliterature 2 Biography, Semiology, Miscellany
    Andrew J Larner
    Neuroliterature 2 Biography, Semiology, Miscellany gathers occasional and more substantive pieces written around the theme of medical history in the 17th 18th and 19th centuries including biographical pieces, considerations of the semiology of terms used in clinical medicine, and a miscellany of pieces on related medical topics. It will be of interest to those who are intereste...
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    21,64 €

  • The malleable body
    Heidi Hausse
    This invaluable study reveals how practices for treating the loss of limbs in early modern Germany transformed western medicine. From amputations to mechanical arms, surgical and artisanal interventions forged a growing perception, fundamental to biomedicine today, that humans could alter the body-that it was malleable. ...
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    51,73 €

  • Lazaretto
    David Barnes
    How the controversial practice of quarantine saved nineteenth-century Philadelphia after a series of deadly epidemics.In the 1790s, four devastating yellow fever epidemics threatened the survival of Philadelphia, the nation’s capital and largest city. In response, the city built a new quarantine station called the Lazaretto downriver from its port. From 1801 to 1895, a strict q...
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    40,73 €

  • The Medieval Hospital
    Nicole R. Rice
    Nicole Rice’s original study analyzes the role played by late medieval English hospitals as sites of literary production and cultural contestation.The hospitals of late medieval England defy easy categorization. They were institutions of charity, medical care, and liturgical commemoration. At the same time, hospitals were cultural spaces sponsoring the performance of drama, the...
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    138,88 €

  • Madness, Mayhem, and Modern Medicine
    Dr. L.H. Nelson
    Strong’s Concordance: 5331. Pharmakeiapharmakeia: the use of medicine, drugs or spellsOriginal Word: φαρμακεία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, FeminineTransliteration: pharmakeiaPhonetic Spelling: (far-mak-i’-ah)Definition: the use of medicine, drugs or spellsUsage: magic, sorcery, enchantment.pharmakeía (from pharmakeuō, 'administer drugs') - properly, drug-related sorcery, like t...
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    25,69 €

  • Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America
    Leslie A. Schwalm
    This social and cultural history of Civil War medicine and science sheds important light on the question of why and how anti-Black racism survived the destruction of slavery. During the war, white Northerners promoted ideas about Black inferiority under the guise of medical and scientific authority. In particular, the Sanitary Commission and Army medical personnel conducted war...
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    127,09 €

  • Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America
    Leslie A. Schwalm
    This social and cultural history of Civil War medicine and science sheds important light on the question of why and how anti-Black racism survived the destruction of slavery. During the war, white Northerners promoted ideas about Black inferiority under the guise of medical and scientific authority. In particular, the Sanitary Commission and Army medical personnel conducted war...
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    31,71 €

  • Publics and their health
    Why are some groups and individuals seen as problems for public health? How does this change over time and place? Through a series of case-studies, this collection explores the making of ’problem publics’ and their relationship with public health authorities. ...
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    169,84 €

  • Netley Diary 1915-1916
    Alec Riley
    Corporal Alec Riley served at Gallipoli in 1915 with the British 42nd (East Lancashire) Division. ’Four months of Gallipoli gave me four diseases and 12 months in Netley.’Riley chose the Royal Victoria Hospital for his convalescence because he wanted to know what a great military hospital was like, that knowledge recorded in a diary of his time at Netley.’I have tried,’ says Ri...
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    34,86 €

  • The Language of Disease
    Steven Wilson
    While the ’venereal peril’ of nineteenth-century France was responsible for thousands of deaths, much attention has focused on the range of social anxieties with which it was associated, including degeneracy, depopulation, state surveillance and public morality. In this interdisciplinary study, Steven Wilson redirects attention onto the body as locus of syphilis. Combining a cr...
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    17,75 €

  • REASONING OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE, THE
    SONG XUAN KE
    This book is intended as an introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for students, practitioners, or lay people with a general interest in Chinese medicine. It provides a clear and compact delivery of TCM’s reasoning, history, philosophy, theory, and treatment principles. The author has approached this from the perspective of the reasoning behind Chinese medicine, its...
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    45,87 €

  • REASONING OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE, THE
    SONG XUAN KE
    This book is intended as an introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for students, practitioners, or lay people with a general interest in Chinese medicine. It provides a clear and compact delivery of TCM’s reasoning, history, philosophy, theory, and treatment principles. The author has approached this from the perspective of the reasoning behind Chinese medicine, its...
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    81,41 €

  • Hybrid healing
    Lori Ann Garner
    This book works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies. Taking a case study approach, it offers close readings tailored to individual remedies, drawing from biology, rhetoric, archaeology, folkloristics and disability studies. ...
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    156,94 €

  • Nurse’s Journey and Observations
    Judith A. Murphy
    The Health Care System from the End of Polio through COVID: A Nurse’s Journey and Observations chronicles where the US health care system currently is and where it needs to be in the future with the help and influence of the nursing profession. 'Beginning her nursing career in 1960, author Judith Murphy has witnessed both health care before the advent of Medicare/Medicaid as we...
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    16,57 €

  • Why Wellness Sells
    Colleen Derkatch
    How and why the idea of wellness holds such rhetorical--and harmful--power.In Why Wellness Sells, Colleen Derkatch examines why the concept of wellness holds such rhetorical power in contemporary culture. Public interest in wellness is driven by two opposing philosophies of health that cycle into and amplify each other: restoration, where people use natural health products to ...
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    62,91 €

  • Masters of Health
    Christopher Willoughby
    Medical science in antebellum America was organized around a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human yet still human enough to be viable as experimental subjects, as cadavers, and for use in the training of medical students. By taking a hard look at the racial ideas of both northern and southern medical schools, Christopher D. E. Willoughby reveals that rac...
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    126,89 €

  • Masters of Health
    Christopher Willoughby
    Medical science in antebellum America was organized around a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human yet still human enough to be viable as experimental subjects, as cadavers, and for use in the training of medical students. By taking a hard look at the racial ideas of both northern and southern medical schools, Christopher D. E. Willoughby reveals that rac...
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    38,03 €

  • Surgery in London and the Royal College of Surgeons of England
    John S. Bolwell
    Surgery in London and The Royal College of Surgeons of England’Opportunities and Pitfalls’The Royal Commission on Medical Education (the Todd Report) in 1968 supported by the Flowers Report in 1980 recommended major changes to undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. London was considered separately because of the disproportionate number of teaching hospitals, medical ...
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    16,03 €

  • Disability Dialogues
    Andrew J Hogan
    A historical look at how activists influenced the adoption of more positive, inclusive, and sociopolitical views of disability.Disability activism has fundamentally changed American society for the better--and along with it, the views and practices of many clinical professionals. After 1945, disability self-advocates and family advocates pushed for the inclusion of more positiv...
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    67,10 €

  • The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals
    Laurence Monnais
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    39,23 €

  • Alcohol, psychiatry and society
    The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and impacts public perceptions of drinking. This book maps the historical and cultural dimensions of the phenomenon, emphasising medical attitudes to alcohol and the changing perception of consumption in psychiatry and mental health. ...
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    181,16 €


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