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History of medicine
Paperback. Burnham's sweeping narrative makes sense of medical practice, medical research, and human frailties and foibles, opening the door to a new understanding of our current concerns. Num Pages: 616 pages, 142, 99 black & white halftones, 43 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBN; MBX; PDX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 165 x 39. Weight in Grams: 858.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421416083
- ISBN
- 9781421416083
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.30
€ 44.30
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- John Donald Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906566920
- ISBN
- 9781906566920
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.05
€ 26.99
€ 24.05
Hardcover. This book covers the history of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN), the international society for the clinical neurosciences, from its founding in Brussels in 1957 to the present day. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: MBX; MJN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198713067
- ISBN
- 9780198713067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.91
€ 118.91
Hardback. Combining the colorful intrigue of courtroom drama and the keen insights of social history, Unconscious Crime depicts Victorian England's legal and medical cultures confronting a new understanding of human behavior, and provocatively suggests these trials represent the earliest incarnation of double consciousness and multiple personality disorder. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; HBTB; JKVQ; MBX; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801874284
- ISBN
- 9780801874284
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 44.54
€ 50.99
€ 44.54
Hardback. Describes the world of mental patients and their doctors in the first half of the twentieth century. This book shows how well-intentioned physicians could rationalize and regard as therapeutic treatments that often had dreadful consequences, and how much the social and cultural world is inscribed within the practice of biological psychiatry. Series: Medicine and Society S. Num Pages: 262 pages, 18. BIC Classification: 3JJ; MBN; MBX; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520205475
- ISBN
- 9780520205475
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.57
€ 94.57
Paperback. The story of pain and suffering since the eighteenth century. Prize-winning historian Joanna Bourke charts how our understanding of pain (and how to cope with it) has changed completely over the last three centuries. Num Pages: 416 pages, 31 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: 3J; HBTB; JFCX; MBX; MMBP; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199689439
- ISBN
- 9780199689439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.15
€ 17.99
€ 14.15
Paperback. Traces the development of medical practice from the Industrial Revolution to the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of source material, it charts the changing relationship between patient and practitioner. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415200387
- ISBN
- 9780415200387
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.40
€ 53.40
paperback. Using diaries, journals and correspondence the author tells a fascinating story of remarkable men who shipped out as doctors on South Sea whalers in the early nineteenth century. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 line drawings, 10 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1QSPS; 3JH; HBTM; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415924528
- ISBN
- 9780415924528
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.23
€ 58.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 317 pages, black & white plates, colour plates. BIC Classification: MBX; MJCL; MMG; PDX; PSAK; VFD; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 183 x 26. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- The Experiment LLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781615191970
- ISBN
- 9781615191970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.47
€ 16.99
€ 16.47
Paperback. Greene's history sheds light on the controversies shadowing the success of generics: problems with the generalizability of medical knowledge, the fragile role of science in public policy, and the increasing role of industry, marketing, and consumer logics in late-twentieth-century and early twenty-first century health care. Num Pages: 376 pages, 17, 8 black & white halftones, 9 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MBX; MMG; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 28. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421421643
- ISBN
- 9781421421643
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.17
€ 30.99
€ 26.17
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473875715
- ISBN
- 9781473875715
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.74
€ 20.99
€ 16.74
Hardcover. Tracing how the meanings of a barbaric surgical procedure emerged, accrued, and transformed within medicine and public culture in the U.S. Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Num Pages: 248 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSM; MBX; MNN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472119448
- ISBN
- 9780472119448
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.93
€ 81.93
Paperback. A seminal account of the history and contemporary landscape of psychiatry. Num Pages: 352 pages, integrated photographs. BIC Classification: MBX; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780227016
- ISBN
- 9781780227016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.13
€ 13.99
€ 11.13
Paperback. Num Pages: 544 pages, 51 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; HBJF; HRE; JHM; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 2. Weight in Grams: 924.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231164979
- ISBN
- 9780231164979
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 81.96
€ 81.96
Paperback. Eighteen-year-old Nanette Leroux fell ill in 1822 with a variety of incapacitating nervous symptoms. Living near the spa at Aix-les-Bains, she became the charity patient of its medical director, Antoine Despine, who treated her with hydrotherapy and animal magnetism. This title offers an account of the young woman's mental afflictions. Num Pages: 264 pages, 14 halftones. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; MBX; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691152370
- ISBN
- 9780691152370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.43
€ 50.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 85. BIC Classification: MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801489587
- ISBN
- 9780801489587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.84
€ 23.99
€ 21.84
Paperback. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of intellectual disability from its several identifications in the United States over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental deficiency and defectiveness, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability. Num Pages: 392 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: MBX; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 264 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199396184
- ISBN
- 9780199396184
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.34
€ 76.34
A cancer survivor who has himself been treated at the center, Olson imbues this history with humor, passion, and humanity. Num Pages: 408 pages, 23, 23 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; MBX; MJCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801890567
- ISBN
- 9780801890567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.79
€ 50.79
Paperback. Olson concludes that, although it has not yet been conquered, breast cancer is no longer the story of individual women struggling alone against a mysterious and deadly foe. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801880643
- ISBN
- 9780801880643
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.61
€ 27.99
€ 24.61
Hardback. Series: Collection on Technology and Work. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1. BIC Classification: MBX; MNB; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801441592
- ISBN
- 9780801441592
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.41
€ 85.41
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBX; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691646855
- ISBN
- 9780691646855
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.30
€ 151.30
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801842085
- ISBN
- 9780801842085
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 31.69
€ 35.99
€ 31.69
Hardback. A comprehensive history of the social and political aspects of vaccination in the United States, this work tells the story of how vaccination became a widely accepted public health measure over the course of the twentieth century. It examines the strategies that health officials have used to gain public acceptance of vaccines. Series: California/ Milbank Books on Health & the Public. Num Pages: 349 pages, 22 b&w illlustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; MBN; MBX; MJCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 820.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 349
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520247499
- ISBN
- 9780520247499
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.05
€ 115.05
paperback. This text establishes historical context for the contemporary debate over the role of unconventional medicine in health care by examining the evolution of the major alternative systems in America from 1800 onwards. Num Pages: 384 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBX; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press USA United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195171624
- ISBN
- 9780195171624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.58
€ 65.58