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  • STALIN AND MEDICINE
    NATALYA RAPOPORT
    The manuscript treats the relationship between the totalitarian regime and science in a series of stories that describe the lives and times of outstanding medical scientists who represented the top of the Soviet intellectual elite of the 20th century.The narrations are based on first-hand accounts the author gained in conversations with her father, a world-renowned pathologist,...
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    93,16 €

  • STALIN AND MEDICINE
    NATALYA RAPOPORT
    The manuscript treats the relationship between the totalitarian regime and science in a series of stories that describe the lives and times of outstanding medical scientists who represented the top of the Soviet intellectual elite of the 20th century.The narrations are based on first-hand accounts the author gained in conversations with her father, a world-renowned pathologist,...
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    45,33 €

  • Disability and the Victorians
    Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments are addressed in a variety of contexts. ...
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    157,53 €

  • REVOLUTIONARY THERAPIES
    DON C REED
    For author Don C Reed, father of a paralyzed son, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is the greatest medical advance since penicillin.REVOLUTIONARY THERAPIES is Reed’s third book about the $3 billion stem cell program.Voted into law in November 2004, CIRM is now running out of money.Should its funding be renewed? Thereby hangs a tale, or rather several do...
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    120,44 €

  • Migrant architects of the NHS
    Julian Simpson
    Migrant Architects is the first book to assess the impact of the migration of doctors from the Indian subcontinent on postwar development of British general practice and by extension the ways in which they influenced the development of the NHS. ...
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    27,91 €

  • Balancing the self
    Balancing the Self generates new insights into emerging fields of health governance, subjectivity and balance. This volume’s wide-ranging discussions will be of interest to historians of medicine, sociologists, social policy analysts, and social and political historians, as well as lay and professional readers. ...
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    42,42 €

  • Cesarean Section
    Jacqueline H Wolf
    Between 1965 and 1987, the cesarean section rate in the United States rose precipitously--from 4.5 percent to 25 percent of births. By 2009, one in three births was by cesarean, a far higher number than the 5-10% rate that the World Health Organization suggests is optimal. While physicians largely avoided cesareans through the mid-twentieth century, by the early twenty-first ce...
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    33,97 €

  • Fixing the Poor
    Molly Ladd-Taylor
    Between 1907 and 1937, thirty-two states legalized the sterilization of more than 63,000 Americans. In Fixing the Poor, Molly Ladd-Taylor tells the story of these state-run eugenic sterilization programs. She focuses on one such program in Minnesota, where surgical sterilization was legally voluntary and administered within a progressive child welfare system.Tracing Minnesota&#...
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    40,63 €

  • Florence Nightingale to Her Nurses
    F. J. Cross / Florence Nightingale
    First published in 1914, “Florence Nightingale to Her Nurses” contains a selection of addresses given by Nightingale to the probationers and nurses of The Nightingale School at St. Thomas’s Hospital. Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) was an English social reformer, statistician, and pioneer of modern nursing. She became famous during the time she served as manager and trainer of...
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    22,57 €

  • Witchcraft as a Social Diagnosis
    Elias Bongmba / Rice University Elias Bongmba / Roxane Richter / Thomas Flowers
    This book examines medical outreach in the condemned witches’ village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on clashes between traditional beliefs, religious tenets, and contemporary medical science. It analyzes questions of stigmatization to explore how disease, injury, and illness relate to social condition and the dialogue surrounding witchcraft. ...
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    50,42 €

  • Extraordinary Nurses Throughout History;In Honour of Florence Nightingale
    Various
    Extraordinary Nurses Throughout History is a fascinating collection that includes insightful writings on eight notable nurses of the past and celebrates their brilliant contributions to medicine.Many incredible women made invaluable improvements to modern nursing and this collection celebrates their lives and achievements through a series of essays. This volume sheds a light on...
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    22,36 €

  • The Lady with the Lamp;Writings & Extracts on Florence Nightingale
    Various
    The Lady with the Lamp is a fantastic collection of insightful essays and extracts about pioneering nurse Florence Nightingale - the founder of modern nursing. In this volume, various authors detail her life and incredible nursing work, as well as her achievements regarding social reform.This compilation of essays and extracts includes biographical pieces and poetry that explor...
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    22,32 €

  • Daughter, Doctor, Resurrectionist
    Edmund Michael Van Buskirk
    Empty graves. Coffins splintered. Bodies . . . missing. In the late nineteenth century, Fort Wayne, Indiana is rocked by an ongoing series of shocking crimes: local cemeteries are being stalked, their fresh bodies stolen. Who would do such a thing? All eyes are on the local medical college and Dr. A.E. Van Buskirk, its young demonstrator of anatomy, who must supply the medical ...
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    20,49 €

  • Blood
    Douglas Starr
    Powerfully involving narrative and incisive detail, clarity and inherent drama: Blood offers in abundance the qualities that define the best popular science writing. Here is the sweeping story of a substance that has been feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times--a substance that has become the center of a huge, secretive, and often dang...
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    15,53 €

  • GUA SHA
    KAI WEN TANG
    The title purports to introduce Gua Sha to the general public as an effective yet safe therapeutic protocol with a short learning curve, making it an extremely appropriate form of home-based treatment. The treatment is deliberated at three different levels of proficiency - plane, line and point, that correspond to myofascial, meridian and acupoint treatment, the last which effe...
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    108,37 €

  • Disability in industrial Britain
    Alexandra Jones / Kirsti Bohata / Mike Mantin
    This book examines disability and disabled people in British coalmining, an industry with high levels of injury and disease and where, as one outsider noted, streets ’thronged with the maimed and mutilated’. ...
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    42,79 €

  • The Aesthetics of Senescence
    Andrea Charise
    Shortlisted for the 2020 BSLS Book Prize presented by the British Society for Literature and Science The Aesthetics of Senescence investigates how chronological age has come to possess far-reaching ideological, ethical, and aesthetic implications, both in the past and present. Andrea Charise argues that authors of the nineteenth century used the imaginative resources of literat...
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    127,05 €

  • History of Medicine for the First and Second Year Medical Student
    William J Keller
    The purpose of this book is to provide medical students and others interested in the history of medicine, a well referenced, readable resource, which succinctly describes the evolution of medical knowledge from 3500 BC to present day. This book offers an opportunity to follow in chronological order, major discoveries, major events, influential people, and institutions most resp...
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    66,91 €

  • History of Medicine for the First and Second Year Medical Student
    William J Keller
    The purpose of this book is to provide medical students and others interested in the history of medicine, a well referenced, readable resource, which succinctly describes the evolution of medical knowledge from 3500 BC to present day. This book offers an opportunity to follow in chronological order, major discoveries, major events, influential people, and institutions most resp...
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    88,39 €

  • The Idea of Progress in Classical Antiquity
    Ludwig Edelstein
    Ludwig Edelstein characterizes the idea of "progress" in Greek and Roman times. He analyzes the ancients' belief in "a tendency inherent in nature or in man to pass through a regular sequence of stages of development in past, present, and future, the latter stages being--with perhaps occasional retardations or minor regressions--superior to the earlier." Edelstein's con...
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    60,43 €

  • The Road to Normalcy
    Wesley M Bagby
    Prior to World War I, two significant streams of progressivism maintained center stage in American politics--the Progressive movement and the world peace movement. The war proved not to be prohibitively distracting for the Progressive movement, which carried on well into the war years. But the war also introduced new elements into American political life, such as the restrictio...
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    40,96 €

  • Communicating the history of medicine
    Communicating the History of Medicine offers a collection of case studies on academic outreach from historical and current perspectives. It questions the kind of linear thinking often found in policy or research assessment, instead offering a nuanced picture of both the promises and pitfalls of engaging audiences for research in the humanities. ...
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    157,37 €

  • Hippocrates Now
    Helen King
    This book is available as open access through the Knowledge Unlatched programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. We need to talk about Hippocrates. Current scholarship attributes none of the works of the ’Hippocratic corpus’ to him, and the ancient biographical traditions of his life are not only late, but also written for their own promotional purposes. Yet ...
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    173,77 €

  • Beyond Nightingale
    Carol Helmstadter
    This book studies Crimean War nursing from a transnational perspective setting nursing in the five combatant armies into the wider context of European statecraft. ...
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    169,15 €

  • The World Health Organization
    Elizabeth Fee / Marcos Cueto / Theodore M. Brown / Theodore MBrown
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    118,59 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates
    Peter E. Pormann
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    44,86 €

  • Ellen N. La Motte
    Lea Williams
    Using unexamined sources, including diaries and unpublished manuscripts, this biography traces the life and work of nurse, writer, and activist Ellen N. La Motte (1873-1961), examining how she developed as a professional in the early twentieth century. ...
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    157,39 €

  • History of the Body
    Willemijn Ruberg
    The body has come to occupy a central place in cultural history, with historians consistently exploring such themes as the history of disease, disability, beauty, and sexuality. This engaging and concise book offers a clear introduction to the history of the body, introducing a wide array of conceptual approaches to the field. It delineates the topic of body history and its ori...
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    42,34 €

  • Dogs in Health Care
    Jill Lenk Schilp
     Dogs have a storied history in health care, and the human-animal relationship has been used in the field for decades. Certain dogs have improved and advanced the field of health care in myriad ways. This book presents the stories of these pioneer dogs, from the mercy dogs of World War I, to the medicine-toting sled dogs Togo and Balto, to today’s therapy dogs. More than the...
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    57,48 €

  • Idea of the American South, 1920-1941
    Michael O’Brien
    The idea of the "South" has its roots in Romanticism and American culture of the nineteenth century. This study by Michael O'Brien analyzes how the idea of a unique Southern consciousness endured into the twentieth century and how it affected the lives of prominent white Southern intellectuals. Individual chapters treat Howard Odum, John Donald Wade, John Crowe Ransom, Alle...
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    60,22 €


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