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  • Pain Chronicles
    Melanie Thernstrom
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    16,73 €

  • Histories of Disability in Latin America
    Heather Vrana
    Reframing disability, power, and identity in Latin America’s complex histories.Histories of Disability in Latin America offers a sweeping reexamination of disability’s place in the region’s past, bringing together original scholarship by historians and anthropologists to illuminate how bodies, minds, and the concept of difference have been understood across centuries of Latin A...
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    83,65 €

  • Bizarre Medicine
    Ruth Clifford Engs
    'Recommended for high-school students as an introduction to the topic, and to generalreaders interested in browsing brief but fascinating medical history.' - BooklistExplore historical and contemporary fringe remedies seen as strange, ridiculous, or even gruesome by modern Western medicine but which nevertheless played an important role in the history of medicine.From placing l...
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    52,92 €

  • On trial
    Magaly Tornay / Marietta Meier / Mario König
    The heroic story of the invention of antidepressants is a key part of the psychopharmaceutical turn. On Trial revolves around one of its pioneers, psychiatrist Roland Kuhn, who practiced in Münsterlingen, a state-run psychiatric hospital in Switzerland. Kuhn became famous for the ’discovery’ of the first antidepressant, Tofranil, and more recently notorious for his numerous tri...
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    53,61 €

  • The Charitable Imperative
    Colin Jones
    The Charitable Imperative, first published in 1989, provides an overview of the very different institutions that treated the poor in France from the seventeenth through to the early nineteenth centuries: hospitals and poorhouses, military infirmaries, reformatories for prostitutes, holding places for the insane, and so on. ...
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    56,62 €

  • Epidemics, Wars, and The Great Depression
    Ginger Floerchinger-Franks
    Public health is often forgotten until a well-publicized food poisoning or epidemic occurs. But public health services affect us every day-providing pure water, uncontaminated foods, sanitary sewage disposal, and preventing illnesses.Epidemics, Wars, and The Great Depression: Early Public Health in a Rural State traces the advancement of public health in a large, rough-and-read...
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    23,50 €

  • Un tratado de cardiología en Abulcasis
    Luisa María Arvide Cambra
    Abu l-Qasim Al-Zahrawi (c.936-c.1013), conocido en la tradición latina, entre otros nombres, como Abulcasis, es uno de los médicos árabes más importantes del islam medieval, que, entre otras aportaciones, llevó a la cirugía a las más altas cotas científicas. Compuso una obra enciclopédica, titulada Kitab al-Ta?rif (Libro de la disposición médica), que está dividida en treinta t...
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    17,00 €

  • Making Babies in Early Modern England
    Leah Astbury
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    157,29 €

  • Making Medical Progress
    Vanessa Rampton
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    45,61 €

  • Making Medical Progress
    Vanessa Rampton
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    138,94 €

  • A Journey in Surgery
    Dennis Pitt
    The pathway to a career isn’t always straightforward. Not everyone dreams of becoming a doctor, let alone a surgeon, since childhood. Author Dennis Pitt certainly didn’t. Like his grandfather and parents, Dennis had his sights set on a career in the Canadian Armed Forces. But after a few pivotal events, he applied to medical school. And once there, the path wasn’t any clearer: ...
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    24,36 €

  • Secrecy and Safety
    Rachel Elder
    A history of epilepsy and the work required to manage it.In the middle of the twentieth century, medical advancements like anticonvulsant drugs and electroencephalograms promised new possibilities for managing seizures. At the same time, people with epilepsy were navigating a complex medical landscape and enduring social prejudice. In Secrecy and Safety, historian Rachel Elder ...
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    80,18 €

  • Epidemiological Obfuscation
    Epidemiology ostensibly exists to reveal and ascribe features to burdens of disease at a population level. However, as the designated arbiter of visibility in public health, it is well-positioned to also obscure burdens of disease with significant implications for both social justice and disease control. ...
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    267,91 €

  • Infant Welfare
    Hazel H. Chodak-Gregory
    Infant Welfare was published in 1926 and provides invaluable detail concerning the newly established Infant Welfare centres. The book reflects the growing significance of women’s contribution to medicine and to wider society and is an important work by a pioneering female doctor with a substantial new introduction. ...
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    90,94 €

  • Insanity and the Insane in Post-Famine Ireland
    Mark Finnane
    Ireland was the location of the earliest provision for the care and control of the mentally ill. Initially welcomed, discontent with the institutions grew with the growth of asylum admissions after the Famine. Originally published in 1981, this book examines the crisis through an analysis of the social function and context of the asylum. ...
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    126,03 €

  • Unani Medicine in the Making
    Kira Schmidt-Stiedenroth
    Unani Medicine in the Making examines the institutions and practices of Unani medicine, the Graeco-Islamic healing practice based on the humoral theory attributed to Hippocrates and officially recognized as a system of medicine in India. ...
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    82,53 €

  • Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland
    Lucy Barnhouse
    From the mid-twelfth century onwards, the development of European hospitals was shaped by their claim to the legal status of religious institutions, with its attendant privileges and responsibilities. This book compares leper hospitals (leprosaria) to relgious multipurpose institutions in medieval times under canon law. ...
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    82,70 €

  • Audible Bleeding
    York N Hsiang
    In the operating room, when there is unexpected massive bleeding like a raging inferno, the emergency responders are the vascular surgeons.But is there bleeding that even vascular surgeons fear? The answer is yes. A former trainee told me to fear two types of bleeding: if the bleeding is coming from you, and audible bleeding. Audible bleeding is when the flow or volume of blood...
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    14,34 €

  • Audible Bleeding
    York N Hsiang
    In the operating room, when there is unexpected massive bleeding like a raging inferno, the emergency responders are the vascular surgeons.But is there bleeding that even vascular surgeons fear? The answer is yes. A former trainee told me to fear two types of bleeding: if the bleeding is coming from you, and audible bleeding. Audible bleeding is when the flow or volume of blood...
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    21,06 €

  • Early Medieval Medicine in Context
    Fresh perspectives on how medical texts, broadly construed, were recorded, perceived and utilised.The past few decades have witnessed significant shifts in the scholarly investigation of early medieval medicine and its texts, moving far beyond outdated stereotypes of stagnation and superstition, not least via close study of the manuscript evidence, which has enabled a better ap...
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    128,60 €

  • Doctor Magnate
    Anil Pandey
    Doctor Magnate is the powerful, real-life journey of a small-town boy who dared to dream beyond his circumstances. From working in a crockery store to walking the streets of Kota with faith and hunger, from missing coaching due to financial constraints to finally wearing the white coat of his dreams, this book is a living example of how purpose, and gratitude can turn strugg...
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    6,32 €

  • Medicine and the Body in Early Modern Europe
    Michael Stolberg
    This volume brings together essays on a wide range of topics, from the popular notion of ‘climacterical’ years believed to recur every seventh year, and the origins and development of the concept of ‘palliative’ care in premodern medicine, to the early modern understanding of ‘melancholia’ as a disease rather than just a temperament, and its visual representation in the famous ...
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    182,15 €

  • Epidemics, Wars, and The Great Depression
    Ginger Floerchinger-Franks
    Public health is often forgotten until a well-publicized food poisoning or epidemic occurs. But public health services affect us every day-providing pure water, uncontaminated foods, sanitary sewage disposal, and preventing illnesses.Epidemics, Wars, and The Great Depression: Early Public Health in a Rural State traces the advancement of public health in a large, rough-and-read...
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    23,16 €

  • Opium Slavery
    Jonathan S. Jones
    During the Civil War, the utility and widespread availability of opium and morphine made opiates essential to wartime medicine. After the war ended, thousands of ailing soldiers became addicted, or “enslaved,” as nineteenth-century Americans phrased it. Veterans, their families, and communities struggled to cope with addiction’s health and social consequences. Medical and gover...
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    153,80 €

  • Opium Slavery
    Jonathan S. Jones
    During the Civil War, the utility and widespread availability of opium and morphine made opiates essential to wartime medicine. After the war ended, thousands of ailing soldiers became addicted, or “enslaved,” as nineteenth-century Americans phrased it. Veterans, their families, and communities struggled to cope with addiction’s health and social consequences. Medical and gover...
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    50,56 €

  • No Time to Breathe
    Kellen Squire
    No Time to Breathe: Voices from the COVID-19 Pandemic preserves the firsthand accounts of those who stood on the frontlines of one of the most devastating public health crises in modern history. Over a million Americans lost their lives to COVID-19, and countless others were permanently scarred-physically, emotionally, and spiritually. This volume gathers the unfiltered testimo...
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    12,80 €

  • At the Front in a World War I Field Hospital
    Leland N. Brown / Will Brown
    From his post with Field Hospital No. 33 in the U.S. Army 4th Division, 1st. Sgt. Leland Brown wrote voluminously of his experiences during World War I. His letters and diaries, collected by his son, form the basis of this personal record of a young soldier’s service on the front. Sgt. Brown was a recent graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy when he enlisted in the...
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    72,01 €

  • Observations On M. Laennec’S Method Of Forming A Diagnosis Of The Diseases Of The Chest By Means Of The Stethoscope, And Of Percussion; And Upon Some Points Of The French Practice Of Medicine
    Charles Scudamore
    A landmark rediscovery for medicine and bibliophiles: witness the moment the stethoscope transformed diagnosis.Observations On M. Laennec’s Method... by Charles Scudamore is a lucid, passionate account of early 19th-century clinical practice that demystifies Laennec’s diagnostic method for diseases of the chest. Scudamore, a leading British physician, translates French medical ...
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    14,64 €

  • Care of Foreigners
    Eram Alam
    Why did South Asian physicians become essential to US health care starting in 1965?For more than 60 years, the United States has trained fewer physicians than it needs, relying instead on the economically expedient option of soliciting immigrant physicians trained at the expense of other countries. In The Care of Foreigners, Eram Alam examines this migratory dynamic that began ...
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    83,99 €

  • Back-Alley Abortion
    Emily Winderman
    Examines how 'back-alley abortion' rhetoric shaped public memory, reproductive politics, and advocacy in the fight for abortion rights.How did three words come to carry the weight of America’s abortion debates? In Back-Alley Abortion, Emily Winderman examines how this phrase shaped American reproductive politics and health care standards across generations. Drawing on extensive...
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    82,36 €


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