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  • The Papyrus Ebers
    Cyril P. Bryan / Cyril PBryan
    2021 Reprint of the 1930 Edition.  Illustrated. The Ebers Papyrus, also known as Papyrus Ebers, is an Egyptian medical papyrus of herbal knowledge dating to circa 1550 BC. Among the oldest and most important medical papyri of ancient Egypt, it was purchased at Luxor in the winter of 1873-74 by Georg Ebers. It is currently kept at the library of the University of Leipzig, in Ge...
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    16,72 €

  • The Aesthetics of Senescence
    Andrea Charise
    Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience. ...
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    42,12 €

  • Kept from All Contagion
    Kari Nixon
    Highlights connections between authors rarely studied together by exposing their shared counternarratives to germ theory’s implicit suggestion of protection in isolation. ...
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    41,98 €

  • NURSING HISTORY REVIEW - Vol. 29
    Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of theAmerican Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase forthe most significant current research on nursing history. Regularsections include scholarly articles, as well as reviews of the latestmedia and publications on nursing and healthcare history that haveappeared in the past year. Historians, researche...
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    209,11 €

  • African nurses and everyday work in twentieth-century Zimbabwe
    Clement Masakure
    Covering the colonial and post-colonial periods, African nurses and everyday work puts at the centre of historical enquiry the experiences of African nurses who laboured day and night in Zimbabwe’s hospitals, healing the sick and nursing the infirm. ...
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    157,31 €

  • The Early History and Evolution of Critical Care Medicine in Southern Colorado
    MD MACP Carl E. Bartecchi / MD MACP Carl EBartecchi
    Since the early 1970s, Pueblo has become an academic medical center. Supported by its two hospitals, Pueblo is the only Colorado city, outside of the Denver metro area, that has two major medical residency programs. St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center has a Family Medicine residency program that trains 20 physicians each year and Parkview Medical Center has an Internal Medicine resi...
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    11,42 €

  • Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution
    Sarah L. Swedberg / Sarah LSwedberg
    In Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution, Sarah L. Swedberg illustrates how concerns about insanity raised difficult questions about the nature of governance in the tumultuous era of the American Revolution. ...
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    149,74 €

  • THAT HIGH DESIGN OF PUREST GOLD
    GRAHAM DUTFIELD
    This book is a history of medicines and the commercial actors that make and sell them, covering the 140 years since the modern pharmaceutical industry came into being. It is written in a lively and accessible way, aiming at a general audience that combines historical narrative with fascinating case studies on drug discovery and commercialization, from the rat poison that became...
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    81,18 €

  • Women’s medicine
    Caroline Rusterholz
    This book covers the role played by British female doctors in the medicalisation of birth control and family planning at the national and transnational level between 1920-70. Drawing on a wide range of archived and published medical materials, Rusterholz sheds light on the strategies British female doctors used to position themselves as experts and leaders in birth control and ...
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    42,83 €

  • Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain, 1948-2012
    Daisy Payling / Gareth Millward / Peder Clark
    This open access book explores the question of who or what ’the public’ is within ’public health’ in post-war Britain. Drawing on historical research on the place of the public in public health in Britain from the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948, the book presents a new perspective on the relationship between state and citizen. Focusing on health education,...
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    54,50 €

  • Vermin, Victims and Disease
    Angela Cassidy
    This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This question has plagued several professional generations of politicians, policymakers, experts and campaigners since the early 1970s. Questions of what is known, who knows, who cares, who to trust ...
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    77,06 €

  • Vermin, Victims and Disease
    Angela Cassidy
    This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This question has plagued several professional generations of politicians, policymakers, experts and campaigners since the early 1970s. Questions of what is known, who knows, who cares, who to trust ...
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    92,58 €

  • Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain, 1948-2012
    Daisy Payling / Gareth Millward / Peder Clark
    This open access book explores the question of who or what ’the public’ is within ’public health’ in post-war Britain. Drawing on historical research on the place of the public in public health in Britain from the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948, the book presents a new perspective on the relationship between state and citizen. Focusing on health education,...
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    68,86 €

  • Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine
    Angela Cassidy / Michael Bresalier / Rachel Mason Dentinger
    This book breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the very heart of modern medicine. In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights into past animal lives, and reveals that what we think of as ’human’ medicine was in fact deeply zoological. Each chapter analyses an important episode in which ...
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    68,04 €

  • Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine
    Angela Cassidy / Michael Bresalier / Rachel Mason Dentinger
    This book breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the very heart of modern medicine. In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights into past animal lives, and reveals that what we think of as ’human’ medicine was in fact deeply zoological. Each chapter analyses an important episode in which ...
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    83,55 €

  • JAPANESE DENTITION
    Eisaku Kanazawa / EISAKU KANAZAWA & HIROYUKI YAMADA / Hiroyuki Yamada
    This book introduces the achievements of dental anthropology research in Japan to the people in the world. It starts with the tooth morphology of the people in the Paleolithic Period about 20,000 years ago. Then it goes through Jomon Age and Yayoi Age when the admixture of the people happened. Here the difference of the tooth shape between those two human groups is emphasized. ...
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    119,92 €

  • 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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    119,69 €

  • Uppkomsten av ett professionellt medicinskt fält
    Carina Carlhed Ydhag
    Boken handlar om det svenska medicinska fältets framväxt från medeltid till 1990-tal med fokus på tre av dess yrken som varit aktiva där nämligen läkare, sjuksköterskor och biomedicinska analytiker (tidigare laboratorieassistenter). Böcker som handlar om professioner har ofta fokus på ett yrke eller en viktig institution men det finns ingen bok som beskriver det större sociala ...
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    23,95 €

  • The business of birth control
    Claire L. Jones / Claire LJones
    This volume provides a new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain. It examines contraceptives as commodities and demonstrates the significance of the contraceptive industry in shaping sexual knowledge alongside the medical profession, the birth control movement, and the state before the emergence of the contraceptive pill. ...
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    157,34 €

  • Measuring difference, numbering normal
    Coreen McGuire
    This book argues that health measurements are given artificial authority if they are particularly amenable to calculability and easy measurement, and shows that problems often coalesce around disabilities that do not lend themselves to easy quantification. ...
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    42,97 €

  • The Unsung Heroes of Paediatric Medicine
    David Wencer / Ernest Cutz
    Within the world of medicine, the work the pathologist does is integral to positive patient outcomes, but it is rare for the pathologist to actually have any interaction with their patients. Thus, their work can often go unrecognized and uncelebrated. The Unsung Heroes of Paediatric Medicine paints a broad portrait of the myriad facets that go into the making of a superb depart...
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    41,06 €

  • The Unsung Heroes of Paediatric Medicine
    David Wencer / Ernest Cutz
    Within the world of medicine, the work the pathologist does is integral to positive patient outcomes, but it is rare for the pathologist to actually have any interaction with their patients. Thus, their work can often go unrecognized and uncelebrated. The Unsung Heroes of Paediatric Medicine paints a broad portrait of the myriad facets that go into the making of a superb depart...
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    29,59 €

  • Preparando medicinas en Lima durante el temprano periodo colonial:
    Linda A. Newson / Linda ANewson
    Basado en una extensa investigación de archivos en Perú, España e Italia,Preparando medicinas en Lima durante el temprano periodo colonial examinacómo se entrenaron los boticarios en la Ciudad de los Reyes y la formaen que ocuparon su lugar en la sociedad. En el libro, Newson argumentaque los boticarios tenían el potencial de ser innovadores en la ciencia,especialmente en el Nu...
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    36,40 €

  • American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities
    Samantha Allen Wright
    American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities: Writing Contagion bridges a gap in the market by linking the medical humanities with disability studies. It examines how Americans used life writing to record epidemic disease throughout history. ...
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    143,07 €

  • Biomedical Entanglements
    Franziska A Herbst
    Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population's interaction with modern medicine. In her fieldwork, Franziska A. Herbst follows the Giri people as they circulate within and around ethnographic sites that include a rural health center and an urban hospital. The study bridges medical anthropolog...
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    44,51 €

  • El regreso de las epidemias:
    Marcos Cueto Caballero
    Desde hace muchos años, las epidemias han tenido repercusiónen la vida social, cultural y política de los peruanos.Este libro nos presenta una perspectiva histórica originalde este dramático impacto y una interpretación clarade su significado durante el pasado reciente del Perú.Publicado ahora con un nuevo prólogo que discute el Covid-19,El regreso de las epidemias es un clásic...
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    26,00 €

  • Bechamp or Pasteur?
    Ethel Hume
    This volume contains new editions of two books. R. Pearson’s Pasteur, Plagiarist, Imposter, originally published in 1942, serves as the introduction. It details some of the reasons for the rancorous relationship between Louis Pasteur and Antoine Béchamp. Pearson points out many of the problems in Pasteur’s work, and provides details, statistics and evidence to support his case....
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    18,55 €

  • Difference and Disease
    Suman Seth
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    38,99 €

  • Kept from All Contagion
    Kari Nixon
    Kept from All Contagion explores the surprising social effects of germ theory in the late nineteenth century. Connecting groups of authors rarely studied in tandem by highlighting their shared interest in changing interpersonal relationships in the wake of germ theory, this book takes a surprising and refreshing stance on studies in medicine and literature.Each chapter focuses ...
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    126,93 €

  • Eradicating deafness?
    Marion Andrea Schmidt / Marion Andrea Schmidt
    How did American geneticists go from fearing the dysgenic effects of deaf intermarriage to considering modern biotechnology a threat for Deaf culture? This book provides insight into changing ideas of what deafness is, what science and medicine should achieve, and to the transformative effect of exchange between scientists and deaf communities. ...
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    157,53 €


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