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  • Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture
    Emily Cock
    This book explores early modern British responses to nose reconstruction, and the concerns and possibilities raised by rumoured nose transplants. ...
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    157,03 €

  • Russia in the Time of Cholera
    John P. Davis
    As the nineteenth century drew to a close and epidemics in western Europe were waning, the deadly cholera vibrio continued to wreak havoc in Russia, outlasting the Romanovs. Scholars have since argued that cholera eventually fell prey to better sanitation and strict quarantine under the Soviets, citing as evidence imperial mismanagement, a `backward’ tsarist medical system and ...
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    57,20 €

  • Remembering Farnhurst
    Katherine A. Dettwyler / Katherine ADettwyler
    This compelling book includes 186 case studies of patients who were admitted to the Delaware State Hospital at Farnhurst between 1894 and 1920. Until now, their stories have remained hidden away, lost, forgotten, inaccessible. This book changes that by providing a detailed look at the lives of a wide variety of patients. Farnhurst is usually thought of as having been simply ...
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    37,50 €

  • Ancient cures, charms, and usages of Ireland; contributions to Irish lore
    Lady Wilde
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. 3 ...
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    10,81 €

  • The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals
    Laurence Monnais
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    120,27 €

  • Vital Signs
    Lee Humber
    Nature is no longer the leading cause of death; society is. This makes health care one of the most important political issues today. This book looks at the reasons behind the declining condition of our bodies, as governments across the world choose to neglect the health of the majority of their citizens.Using hard data taken from service users, Lee Humber constructs a sharp ana...
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    30,63 €

  • Vital Signs
    Lee Humber
    Nature is no longer the leading cause of death; society is. This makes health care one of the most important political issues today. This book looks at the reasons behind the declining condition of our bodies, as governments across the world choose to neglect the health of the majority of their citizens.Using hard data taken from service users, Lee Humber constructs a sharp ana...
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    127,33 €

  • A U.S. Army Medical Base in World War I France
    Peter Wever
     Nothing in the small village of Bazoilles-sur-Meuse in the northeast of France bears witness today to the 13,000-bed Bazoilles Hospital Center located there during World War I. Yet in 1918-1919 more than 63,000 American soldiers received treatment there--three out of every 100 U.S. servicemen and women who served in Europe. This richly illustrated history describes daily ...
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    65,79 €

  • ¿Entre el fiscal y el verdugo?
    José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez
    Mateu Orfila i Rotger (1787-1853) es uno de los más famosos toxicólogos de todos los tiempos y su nombre aparece en casi todos los manuales de medicina legal. Sus trabajos fueron traducidos a las principales lenguas y su aparición en juicios de envenenamientos hizo que su fama se extendiera más allá del entorno académico. Este libro recopila una gran diversidad de fuentes, prác...
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    23,50 €

  • Battle-scarred
    Battle-scarred examines mortality, medical care and military welfare during the British Civil Wars. Its focus on the victims of war and their means of survival provides a series of case studies to demonstrate how these visceral conflicts drove developments in medical care and military welfare for servicemen and their families. ...
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    36,87 €

  • An archaeology of lunacy
    Katherine Fennelly
    This is a materially focused exploration of the first wave of public asylum building in Britain and Ireland. Examining architecture and material culture, it proposes that the familiar asylum archetype, usually attributed to the Victorians, was in fact developed much earlier. ...
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    157,60 €

  • Negotiating insanity in the southeast of Ireland, 1820-1900
    Catherine Cox
    Students and Lecturers in Irish and British medical and social history. ...
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    46,51 €

  • Old Red
    Heather Graham Wooten
    Tucked away in a corner of the University of Texas Medical Branch campus stands a majestic relic of an era long past. Constructed of red pressed brick, sandstone, and ruddy Texas granite, the Ashbel Smith Building, fondly known as Old Red, represents a fascinating page in Galveston and Texas history. It has been more than a century since Old Red welcomed the first group of visi...
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    14,18 €

  • Religio Medici
    Thomas Browne
    The proverb “Where there are three physicians there are two atheists” summed up the public perception of seventeenth century physicians. But, as the reader of Religio Medici will testify, Sir Thomas Browne, M.D., was anything but an atheist.   Browne qualified as a doctor in Europe and travelled widely across the continent, living among many different Christian sects. At the ag...
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    11,85 €

  • Bodies in Blue
    Sarah Handley-Cousins
    In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is virtually synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways, many of them understudied by historians. In Bodies in Blue, Sarah Handley-Cousins expands and complicates our understanding of wartime disability by examining a variety of bodies and ailments, ranging from the temporary to the chronic, from disea...
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    50,08 €

  • Testing the Limits
    Maura Phillips Mackowski
    In 1958 the United States launched its first satellite and created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to oversee its new space program. By 1961 NASA was confident enough to put a human being into space. But how had it acquired enough medical knowledge to ensure an astronaut’s safety in just three years? It hadn’t. The credit goes instead to decades of mili...
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    32,61 €

  • Dr. Mayo's Boy
    Rob Tenery
    Dr. Mayo's Boy traces the medical experiences of three generations of Texas physicians in small town Waxahachie and big city Dallas. Dr. Mayo's Boy explores how physicians have viewed their commitment to their patients, how they sacrifice to meet the challenges they face and how the practice of medicine has, sadly, changed over almost sixty years. Dr. Mayo's Boy is ...
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    12,69 €

  • Migraine
    Katherine Foxhall
    For centuries, people have talked of a powerful bodily disorder called migraine, which currently affects about a billion people around the world. Yet until now, the rich history of this condition has barely been told.In Migraine, award-winning historian Katherine Foxhall reveals the ideas and methods that ordinary people and medical professionals have used to describe, explain,...
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    53,73 €

  • Madness on trial
    James E. Moran / James EMoran / James Moran
    This book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey. ...
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    157,28 €

  • Neuroliterature Patients, Doctors, Diseases
    Andrew J Larner
    Most of these occasional pieces, published over a period of almost 20 years and brought together for the first time in this volume, explore the interrelationships between neurology and literature, hence “neuroliterature”.  Both literary and clinical accounts share narrative structure, and the former may inform a clinician’s understanding of the patient experience of disease.  C...
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    21,53 €

  • The World Health Organization
    Elizabeth Fee / Marcos Cueto / Theodore M. Brown / Theodore MBrown
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    41,23 €

  • Professionalizing Medicine
    John M. Harris
    This biography of James Edmund Reeves, whose legislative accomplishments cemented American physicians’ control of the medical marketplace, illuminates landmarks of American health care: the troubled introduction of clinical epidemiology and development of botanic medicine and homeopathy, the Civil War’s stimulation of sanitary science and hospital medicine, the rise of gover...
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    73,22 €

  • La medicina del San Juan de Dios 1916-1920
    José María Teránm
    Este libro arranca desde 1916 que, coincidencialmente fue un año básico en el desarrollo de la medicina ecuatoriana y sobre todo quiteña: se creó el Dispensario Infantil gratuito, se creó el Hospital de Zaruma, por primera vez apareció la Ley de Comercio del Opio (pues empezó la primera epidemia de opiómanos sobre todo en Guayaquil y Quito), se creó el primer Laboratorio Clínic...
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    31,20 €

  • Managing diabetes, managing medicine
    Martin D. Moore
    Through its study of British diabetes care, this book asks how such a shift occurred, how systems of management were constructed, and what this says about diabetes care and modern medicine. ...
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    42,63 €

  • Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World
    Christian Laes
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    120,44 €

  • Zlaya Korcha
    Denis Absentis
    The end of the millennium was approaching and when a plague of invisible fire broke out, cutting off limbs from the body and consuming many in a single night, the sufferers thronged to the churches and invoked the help of the Saints. This fire permeated the wretched people with such cold that no means sufficed to warm them. The order of nature had been overturned. Hell seemed t...
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    19,25 €

  • A History of Orthopedics
    M.D. Justin Howland
    A HISTORY OF ORTHOPEDICS portrays the beginning of orthopedic surgery from ancient times to the current era. It follows the gradual development of a specialty from Egypt to the European continent and England and from there to the United States of America. After the discovery of anesthesia and x-rays in the 19th century, a more rapid development of surgical endeavors led to the ...
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    6,75 €

  • The International Medical Relief Corps in Wartime China, 1937-1945
    Robert Mamlok
    Both before and during World War II, the Nazis restricted the rights of Jewish and communist doctors. Some fought back, first by fighting against Fascism in the Spanish Civil War and then by helping the Chinese in their struggle against Japan. There were, however, two rival factions in China. One favored Chiang Kai-shek (the nationalists) and the other, the communists--and 2...
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    64,75 €

  • IN THE SPIRIT OF SCIENCE
    SYDNEY BRENNER / SYDNEY BRENNER & TERRENCE SEJNOWSKI / Terrence Sejnowski
    In October 2017, Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner (Physiology or Medicine, 2002) gave four lectures on the history of Molecular Biology, its impact on Neuroscience and the great scientific questions that lie ahead.Sydney Brenner has been at the centre of the development of molecular biology, being a key player in shaping the Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge into a cra...
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    34,91 €

  • IN THE SPIRIT OF SCIENCE
    SYDNEY BRENNER / SYDNEY BRENNER & TERRENCE SEJNOWSKI / Terrence Sejnowski
    In October 2017, Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner (Physiology or Medicine, 2002) gave four lectures on the history of Molecular Biology, its impact on Neuroscience and the great scientific questions that lie ahead.Sydney Brenner has been at the centre of the development of molecular biology, being a key player in shaping the Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge into a cra...
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    82,75 €


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