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History of medicine
Paperback. With US soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple conflicts, Americans will be forced for the foreseeable future to come to terms with those permanently disabled in battle. This book explains how, before entering World War I, the United States sought a way to avoid the enormous cost of providing injured soldiers with pensions. Num Pages: 300 pages, 20 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBWN; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226143354
- ISBN
- 9780226143354
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.41
€ 34.99
€ 27.41
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813545769
- ISBN
- 9780813545769
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.25
€ 54.25
Paperback. BIC Classification: MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 36. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784537586
- ISBN
- 9781784537586
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.90
€ 34.99
€ 31.90
Hardback. The third edition of Women and Medicine provides a comprehensive and definitive history, from early riots in medical schools when women tried to enroll, to women finally overcoming obstacles, making medical breakthroughs and enjoying brilliant medical careers. Num Pages: 232 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Edition
- 3 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810842380
- ISBN
- 9780810842380
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.37
€ 107.37
Hardcover. Explains the rise of information based medicine and how it can improve the cost and practice of pharmaceutical and medical science Covers a broad range of topics - history, philosophy, economy, mathematics, computers, etc. Series Editor(s): Ekins, Sean. Series: Wiley Series on Technologies for the Pharmaceutical Industry. Num Pages: 598 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MBX; MMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 166 x 34. Weight in Grams: 964.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 598
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470289532
- ISBN
- 9780470289532
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.61
€ 139.61
Paperback. During Kaiser Wilhelm II's reign, nature gained a role of central importance to the German national experience. Using interpretive methods drawn from the history of science and science studies, the author shows how popular health and hygiene movements shaped German ideas about progress and modernity, nature, health, and the body. Num Pages: 235 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; MBP; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875807041
- ISBN
- 9780875807041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.49
€ 41.99
€ 41.49
Paperback. In 'Roman Medicine' Audrey Cruse looks at the long and complex history of western medicine. After introducing relevant myths and legends from earliest times in Greece, she discusses ancient philosophers from the sixth-fifth centuries BC and the subsequent development of schools of medicine. Num Pages: 208 pages, 100ill. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 175 x 19. Weight in Grams: 696. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- KOC0010718
- ISBN
- 9780752414614
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 20.00
€ 20.00
Paperback. A groundbreaking new book about the nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focussing on the renowned Salpetriere Hospital in Paris. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; MBX; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 262. Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris. 384 pages, Illustrations. A groundbreaking new book about the nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focussing on the renowned Salpetriere Hospital in Paris. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; MBX; MMJ. Dimension: 195 x 130 x 25. Weight: 262.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408822357
- ISBN
- 9781408822357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.66
€ 19.99
€ 14.66
Hardback. An authoritative and absorbing account of one of Britain's most prestigious hospitals. Num Pages: 535 pages, 4 line diagrams 81 half-tones. BIC Classification: MBP; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 31. . Good copy 8vo Illustrated. The History of Nursing and Hospital Histories.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0304589
- ISBN
- 9780521405294
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 75.00
€ 75.00
Paperback. An investigation of the creation and circulation of Western medical discourses linking ideas about disease to Chinese identity, beginning in the eighteenth century. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 248 pages, 42 illustrations, incl. 8 in color. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822341130
- ISBN
- 9780822341130
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.18
€ 28.18
Hardcover. Editor(s): Miller, Rhena Schweitzer; Woytt, Gustav. Translator(s): Lemke, Antje Bultman. Series: The Albert Schweitzer Library. Num Pages: 280 pages, 13 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: BGA; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815629948
- ISBN
- 9780815629948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.00
€ 39.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 130 pages. BIC Classification: MBX; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 210 x 10. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Imprint Academic United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 130
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845404505
- ISBN
- 9781845404505
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.52
€ 15.52
Paperback. In this comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology and Appalachian history and draws extensively on oral histories and archival sources from the 19th to the 21st century. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 illustrations, 2 maps, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; MBX; MX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807854938
- ISBN
- 9780807854938
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.72
€ 29.99
€ 25.72
Hardcover. The first scholarly history of food poisoning, telling of the discovery of food poisoning as a public health problem in the 1880s, of the discovery of pathways of infection and of the Salmonella family, and of the realisation that these organisms are deeply embedded in human and animal food chains and the subsequent importance of food hygiene. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; MBN; MBS; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198704973
- ISBN
- 9780198704973
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.56
€ 160.56
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HBT; JMH; JMP; MBPK; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231172301
- ISBN
- 9780231172301
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.21
€ 36.99
€ 27.21
Hardback. Examines colonial medical policy and the ways in which doctors of the Colonial Medical Service dealt with the day-to-day reality of care-giving in Imperial Africa. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 238 pages. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719089671
- ISBN
- 9780719089671
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.42
€ 157.42
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Ashgate Publishing Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 286
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780754601722
- ISBN
- 9780754601722
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.12€ 94.81
€ 153.12
€ 94.81
Paperback. This bookm the first history of contraception for almost fifty years, provides a scholarly and highly readable account of procreation and attempts to prevent it from ancient Greece to the late twentieth century. The story, as the author shows, is not one of unalleviated progress, and anything but a simple passage from ignorance to enlightenment. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: MBNH4; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631187295
- ISBN
- 9780631187295
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.41
€ 52.41
Paperback. Convinced that he had uncovered the single source of psychosis, Henry Cotton, superintendent of the Trenton State Hospital, New Jersey, launched a ruthless campaign to 'eliminate the perils of pus infection'. This book reconstructs a nightmarish, cautionary chapter in modern psychiatry when professionals failed to police themselves. Num Pages: 376 pages, 30 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; MBX; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300126709
- ISBN
- 9780300126709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.55
€ 26.99
€ 20.55
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848723658
- ISBN
- 9781848723658
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.06
€ 63.06