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  • Der Tod und die Medizin

    Kurze Geschichte einer Annäherung

    Wie hat sich über die Jahrhunderte hinweg das Verhältnis der Medizin zum Tod und zum Sterben verändert? Daniel Schäfer zeichnet die spannende Geschichte einer langen Annäherung nach. Sein Buch ist im Kern medizinhistorisch, entfaltet aber mit vielfältigen Bezügen zu Kulturgeschichte, Literatur, Ethnologie, Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte ein breites Panorama. Der zeitliche Bogen reicht von der ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Health and Medicine through History

    From Ancient Practices to 21st-Century Innovations [3 volumes]

    Edited by Ruth Clifford Engs ...
    This three-volume set provides a comprehensive yet concise global exploration of health and medicine from ancient times to the present day, helping readers to trace the development of concepts and practices around the world.From archaeological evidence of trepanning during prehistoric times to medieval Europe's conception of the four humors to present-day epidemics of diabetes and heart disease, ... Read more

    $253.99 USD

  • Gray Matters

    A Biography of Brain Surgery

    **“If you are at all curious about the brain or the surgeons who operate on it, Gray Matters is a must read and Dr. Theodore Schwartz is the perfect guide, a master brain surgeon and superbly talented writer. I have not read a better biography of our shared profession, and in Schwartz's talented hands, the most enigmatic 3 1/2 pounds of tissue in the known universe comes to light in remarkable and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Treasure Your Exceptions

    The Science and Life of William Bateson

    William Bateson brought the work of Mendel (and much more) to the attention of the English-speaking world. He commanded the biological sciences in the decades after Darwin's death in 1882. To understand these years we must first understand Bateson. Through examination of the life of a major contributor to the turn-of-the-nineteenth-century revolution in biology, the authors reconcile the ... Read more

    $215.99 USD

  • I Speak Life:(Seeking The Great Physician)

    The story of my family's battle with cancer was at one time a heavy burden I carried. My mother, grandmother, and aunt all fell victim to this dreadful disease called cancer. Breast and ovarian cancer to be exact and they leave behind a legacy of uncertainty. According to science, I am at a higher risk of facing the same fate. The numbers don't lie, painting a grim picture of my future. Yet, I ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Los avances de la medicina actual

    Este libro es un acercamiento a los hitos de la construcción de la medicina actual a través de sus protagonistas, profesionales de la medicina y de la ciencia en general, a veces premiados con el Nobel y otras ninguneados durante años, que contribuyeron con sus investigaciones al corpus de conocimiento que hoy forma parte de la cultura general de nuestra sociedad. Ideas que hoy parecen de sentido ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Collins College Outlines: Western Civilization from 1500

    by Ahmed Ibrahim ...
    The Collins College Outline for Western Civilization from 1500 covers all major political, social, and cultural events from the beginning of the "Modern Age" in 1492 through the Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment, Napoleon, the Depression, the World Wars, and the Cold War, continuing up through history's most recent crises and developments in the early twenty-first century. Completely revised ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway

    Conceptualizing Knowledge

    by Ane Ohrvik ...
    Series series Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
    This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine, magic, and art.Ane Ohrvik assesses the Black Books from the vantage point of those who wrote the manuscripts and thus offers an original study of how early modern magical ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy

    The Victorian Penny Blood and the 1832 Anatomy Act

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
    This book investigates the relationship between the fascinating and misunderstood penny blood, early Victorian popular fiction for the working class, and Victorian anatomy. In 1832, the controversial Anatomy Act sanctioned the use of the body of the pauper for teaching dissection to medical students, deeply affecting the Victorian poor. The ensuing decade, such famous penny bloods as Manuscripts ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • London and its Asylums, 1888-1914

    Politics and Madness

    by Robert Ellis ...
    Series series Mental Health in Historical Perspective
    This book explores the impact that politics had on the management of mental health care at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 1888 and the introduction of the Local Government Act marked a turning point in which democratically elected bodies became responsible for the management of madness for the first time. With its focus on London in the period leading up to the First World War ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Belonging, Therapeutic Landscapes, and Networks

    Implications for Mental Health Practice

    by Ezra Griffith ...
    Why are certain places perceived to be therapeutic, to make people feel better about life, about themselves, and about their bodies? Could there be environmental, individual, societal, and attachment factors that come together in the healing process in both traditional and non-traditional landscapes? This observation is particularly important and has implications for the understanding of both ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Fighting Fat

    Canada, 1920-1980

    While the statistics for obesity have been alarming in the twenty-first century, concern about fatness has a history. In Fighting Fat, Wendy Mitchinson discusses the history of obesity and fatness from 1920 to 1980 in Canada. Through the context of body, medicine, weight measurement, food studies, fat studies, and the identity of those who were fat, Mitchinson examines the attitudes and practices ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • You're Doing it Wrong!

    Mothering, Media, and Medical Expertise

    New mothers face a barrage of confounding decisions during the life-cycle of early motherhood which includes... Should they change their diet or mindset to conceive? Exercise while pregnant? Should they opt for a home birth or head for a hospital? Whatever they “choose,” they will be sure to find plenty of medical expertise from health practitioners to social media “influencers” telling them that ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Popular Errors

    Translated by Gregory David de Rocher ...
    Laurent Joubert was an important figure in the medical world of the French Renaissance. Born in 1529, he became a doctor at age 29 and shortly thereafter was appointed personal physician to Catherine de Medici and later became physician to three French monarchs. Joubert was an educator as well as a physician, and he wrote several works of medical literature, including his most controversial work, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Backwash of War - The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse (WWI Centenary Series)

    Series series WWI Centenary Series
    "After this war, there will be many other wars, and in the intervals there will be peace. So it will alternate for many generations. By examining the things cast up in the backwash, we can gauge the progress of humanity. When clean little lives, when clean little souls boil up in the backwash, they will consolidate, after the final war, into a peace that shall endure. But not till then." This book ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cardiac Cowboys

    The Heroic Invention of Heart Surgery

    Cardiac Cowboys is the dramatic story of five deeply flawed geniuses who together—and in competition with each other—invented open-heart surgery against all conventional medical wisdom and saved millions of lives.A decade after World War II, there was still no such thing as open-heart surgery, and yet half a million Americans were dying from heart disease every year. One in a hundred children ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Food, Feasting and Table Manners in the Late Middle Ages

    Volume I: The Iberian Peninsula in the European Context

    Edited by Guillermo Alvar Nuño ...
    This book offers a study of what and how people ate in the Iberian Peninsula between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.It has long been recognized that Mediterranean cultures attach great importance to communal meals and food cooked with great refinement. However, whilst medieval feasting in England, France and Italy has been thoroughly studied, Spain and Portugal have both been somewhat ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Summary of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

    by Rebecca Skloot - A Comprehensive Summary

    Series Book 1 - Self-Development Summaries
    Summary of The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksRebecca Skloot, a specialist in science and medicine, authored The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which has become one of her best-selling books. The book was published in 2010 and it remained on The New York Best seller list for a long time.This book is about the subjects of science and medicine, focusing on the story of a young woman who is ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Environnement et santé

    Progrès scientifiques et inégalités sociales

    by Collectif ...
    Series series De Republica
    Le progrès scientifique et technologique a été longtemps accompagné d’une connotation positive, tant il a contribué à l’amélioration du bien-être individuel et collectif au XXe siècle. Le présent ouvrage tend à montrer que la réalité du XXIe siècle est peut-être sensiblement différente des représentations traditionnelles de l’idée de progrès et se propose d’explorer l’une de ses faces sombres, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History

    Approaches, Contexts and Perspectives

    Edited by Gayle Davis, Tracey Loughran ...
    This ground-breaking, interdisciplinary volume provides an overdue assessment of how infertility has been understood, treated and experienced in different times and places. It brings together scholars from disciplines including history, literature, psychology, philosophy, and the social sciences to create the first large-scale review of recent research on the history of infertility. Through ... Read more

    $215.99 USD

  • Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not

    The Notes on Nursing is the revolutionary book by one of the founders of "modern medicine." Although Florence Nightingale was ridiculed for her views and approach by many contemporaries, including prominent doctors of her times, she stood her ground. She saved many lives from unnecessary death of hospital infection. Florence Nightingale first started demanding that all the surgical instruments ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic

    Series Book 52 - Rochester Studies in Medical History
    Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) casts a long shadow over American medicine as well as over the social and political history of the American republic. The Philadelphia physician involved himself in numerous social, political, and scientific projects while maintaining a busy practice and lecturing to thousands of students over his career. As a result, attempts by historians to make sense of Rush and his ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Silent Victories

    The History and Practice of Public Health in Twentieth-Century America

    Americans' health improved dramatically over the twentieth century. Public health programs for disease and injury prevention were responsible for much of this advance. Over the century, America's public health system grew dramatically, employing science and political authority in response to an increasing array of health problems. As the disease burden of the old scourges of infection, perinatal ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • On the Sacred Disease (Illustrated Edition)

    by Hippocrates ...
    Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.) is one of the best known of the Ancient Greeks, and his Hippocratic Oath is still in use today. An ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens, Hippocrates is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine, known simply as the Father of Western medicine in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field as ... Read more

    $0.99 USD