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History of medicine

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

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

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

€ 85.17
€ 65.94

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
€ 25.17

Hardcover. Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective. Num Pages: 242 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, 4 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319548128
ISBN
9783319548128
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.02

Hardback. A collection of essays examining the development and commodification of prostheses in Britain and America that occurred during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, due to the shift to standardized industrial manufacturing and associated market growth. Editor(s): Jones, Claire L. Series Editor(s): Anderson, Julie. Series: Disability History. Num Pages: 216 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFFG; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781526101426
ISBN
9781526101426
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 169.29

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

€ 67.91

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

€ 138.97

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
€ 24.39

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

€ 28.00
€ 26.95

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
€ 19.83

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Griffin Publishing United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312611743
ISBN
9780312611743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.76

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

€ 128.60

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
€ 17.49

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

€ 129.99

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

€ 128.41

Drawing on the letters and testimony of Padua's medical students, Klestinec charts a new history of anatomy in the Renaissance, one that characterizes the role of the anatomy theater and reconsiders the pedagogical debates and educational structure behind human dissection. Num Pages: 280 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: MBX; MFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 516.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421401423
ISBN
9781421401423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.81

Paperback. "This book charts the social and cultural history of the scientific technique known as "tissue culture." It shows how tissue culture was a regular public presence in twentieth-century Britain, and argues that history can contribute to current debates surrounding research on human and animal tissue"-- Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBTB; MBX; PDX; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
193
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349329458
ISBN
9781349329458
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.55

paperback. The present work offers an extensive introduction to the text and transmission of the ancient Latin version of the medical works "Therapeutica" and "On Fevers" of the great sixth-century Greek doctor Alexander of Tralles. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12 pls. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 265 x 186 x 26. Weight in Grams: 678.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Roman Society Publications United Kingdom
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780907764328
ISBN
9780907764328
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 78.57

Hardback. This is the first scholarly biography of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) in any language. Based upon a wealth of archival material, it weaves his life and science into some 100 years of Russian history and offers a fundamental reinterpretation of his scientific style and his famous research on conditional reflexes. Num Pages: 880 pages, 47 illus. BIC Classification: BGT; JMM; MBX. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 242 x 159 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1420.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199925193
ISBN
9780199925193
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 38.32

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