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History of medicine

Paperback. This first major study of a curiously neglected term in the history of sexuality will intrigue students, scholars and enthusiasts alike. The authors take us through a journey across four centuries, showing how notions of sexual coldness and frigidity have been thought about by legal, medical, psychiatric, psychoanalytic and literary writers. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBTB; JHBK; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
323
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349338139
ISBN
9781349338139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.46

Hardcover. This first major study of a curiously neglected term in the history of sexuality will intrigue students, scholars and enthusiasts alike. The authors take us through a journey across four centuries, showing how notions of sexual coldness and frigidity have been thought about by legal, medical, psychiatric, psychoanalytic and literary writers. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JHBK5; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230303454
ISBN
9780230303454
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 80. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGT; MBD; MBX; MNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 29. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publisher
Avery
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592409259
ISBN
9781592409259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.47

Hardcover. A collection of essays focused largely on the 19th century when alternative medicine as opposed to orthodox medicine was not accepted as "professional". Historians in this book explore the dissent which arose in various local and national contexts. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBX; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333462133
ISBN
9780333462133
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.42

Paperback. The authorised biography of the doctor who made the link between smoking & lung cancer and battled Big Tobacco Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 b&w illus. BIC Classification: BGT; MBNS; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 35. Weight in Grams: 784.
Publisher
Signal Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909930049
ISBN
9781909930049
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.87

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, illus. BIC Classification: BG; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Prometheus Books United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573927949
ISBN
9781573927949
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.95

Hardcover. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology, neurology, sexology and immunology, the author intersperses obvious historical milestones; the Hippocratic Oath, general anesthesia, the Human Genome Project, with unexpected and intriguing topics like truth serum, the use of cocaine in eye surgery and face transplants. Num Pages: 528 pages, full colour throughout, includes photographs. BIC Classification: MBX; VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 196 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1462.
Publisher
Sterling
Number of pages
528
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402785856
ISBN
9781402785856
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.66

paperback. This book analyzes literary representations to explain how consumption, a killer disease, came to be the glamorous illnesss of the Romantic era. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBF; HBJD; JFC; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349286119
ISBN
9781349286119
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 137.94

Hardcover. Editor(s): Carlin, Claire L. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLH; MBN; MBX; MJCJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403939265
ISBN
9781403939265
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.29

Paperback. Editor(s): Patton, Cindy. Series: Quadrant Book. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 b&w illustration. BIC Classification: JFSG; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816670192
ISBN
9780816670192
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Hardcover. Powerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America's abandoned state mental hospitals. Num Pages: 209 pages, 88, color photos, 67, color illus., 68, b&w photos. BIC Classification: AJCR; AM; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 289 x 266 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1730.
Publisher
The MIT Press
Number of pages
209
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262013499
ISBN
9780262013499
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.74
€ 65.94

Paperback. Broad in scope and sweep, Hamlin's study is a reflection of how the meanings of diseases continue to shift, affecting not only the identities we create but often our ability to survive. Series: Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease. Num Pages: 400 pages, 20, 11 black & white halftones, 9 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421415024
ISBN
9781421415024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.98

Hardback. A revisionist account of the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain. Series Editor(s): Rosenberg, Charles E.; Jones, Colin. Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine. Num Pages: 380 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: MBP; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 31. Weight in Grams: 758.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
380
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521583633
ISBN
9780521583633
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.96

Intimate epistolary exchanges between Cabot and his patients shed light on the challenges presented by the new technologies-especially their impact on the personal relationships between doctor and patient-providing insight into a time of expanding science and radical change. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11, 10 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JJC; MBG; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801881176
ISBN
9780801881176
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.73

Hardcover. Editor(s): Katzenmeier, Christian; Bergdolt, Klaus. Series: Kalner Schriften Zum Medizinrecht. Num Pages: 194 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: HPM; LNTM; MBDC; MBN; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Publisher
Springer
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
2009th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783540705314
ISBN
9783540705314
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.82

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198739036
ISBN
9780198739036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Hardback. The first-ever biography of the man behind the disease - and a pioneer of medical science Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGT; JPF; MBX; MJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Publisher
Icon Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785781780
ISBN
9781785781780
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.13

Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin's Disease is the first account of a remarkable man who changed the face of cancer therapy and the history of a once fatal, now curable, cancer. Num Pages: 456 pages, 31 illustrations. BIC Classification: MBX; MJCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 740.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804768665
ISBN
9780804768665
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 47.76

Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), better known as Paracelsus, was a physician, natural magician and commentator on the social and religious issues of his day. This work considers Paracelsus' life and works, and explores his advocacy for total reform of the clerical, legal, and medical professions. Num Pages: 330 pages, 8 b/w. BIC Classification: HBTB; HPCB; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 681.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300139112
ISBN
9780300139112
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.64

Paperback. At a time when clinical care and biomedical research generate as much angst as they offer cures, this volume provides valuable insight into how the practice of medicine has evolved, where it is going, and how lessons from history can improve its prognosis. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801887161
ISBN
9780801887161
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.42

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