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Paperback. The story of hysteria is a curious one, for it persists as an illness for centuries before disappearing. Andrew Scull gives a fascinating account of this socially constructed disease that came to be strongly associated with women, showing the shifts in social, cultural, and medical perceptions through history. Num Pages: 240 pages, 18 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: MBX; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 196 x 19. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199692989
- ISBN
- 9780199692989
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.47
€ 16.99
€ 13.47
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€ 20.67
€ 26.99
€ 20.67
Paperback. This multi-authored book examines the human stories that underlie the development of vaccines. Stories are anchored in their historical context and cover key figures, scientific and political hurdles, and clinical trial controversies. Editor(s): Artenstein, Andrew W. Num Pages: 424 pages, 8 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: MBX; MJCJ; MJCM; MMFM; PSG; VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781489983626
- ISBN
- 9781489983626
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 317.04
€ 317.04
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
€ 52.78
€ 52.78
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
€ 154.47€ 96.34
€ 154.47
€ 96.34
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
€ 37.99€ 27.76
€ 37.99
€ 27.76
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
€ 171.59
€ 171.59
Hardback. Series: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History. Num Pages: 331 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: MBX; MJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 218 x 24. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319324548
- ISBN
- 9783319324548
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.43
€ 128.43
Hardcover. Covering a wide swath of German history from the Enlightenment to National Socialism, this book shows that ideals of beauty have always been closely related to a society's conception of itself, from organ transplants to the manufacture of cosmetics. At the same time, body modification has also presented new ways to subvert the social order. Series: Worlds of Consumption. Num Pages: 289 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 22. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137489807
- ISBN
- 9781137489807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.91
€ 67.91
Paperback. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HB; HP; MBX; PN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2001
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048156405
- ISBN
- 9789048156405
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPCB; MBDC; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1927
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642940927
- ISBN
- 9783642940927
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.37
€ 70.37
Paperback / so. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: DQ; MBX; MJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 127.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1912
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642901294
- ISBN
- 9783642901294
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.39
€ 70.39
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 / so. Num Pages: 130 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: MBX; MJC; MJL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 8. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1937
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 130
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642904691
- ISBN
- 9783642904691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.14
€ 71.14
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€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
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
Hardcover. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 277 pages, 29 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLW3; JFD; MBX; MNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403987303
- ISBN
- 9781403987303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
The Changing Faces of Childhood Cancer. Clinical and Cultural Visions ...
Baines, Joanna; Johnstone, Emm Barnes
Paperback. This book traces the development of British answers to the problem of childhood cancer. The establishment of the NHS and better training for paediatricians, meant children were given access to experimental chemotherapy, sending cure rates soaring. Children with cancer were thrust into the spotlight as individuals' stories of hope hit the headlines. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBTB; MBX; MQC; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 325.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349541850
- ISBN
- 9781349541850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.89
€ 65.89
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
€ 150.10
€ 150.10
The Doctor-activist. Physicians Fighting for Social Change.
Bassuk, Ellen L.; Carman, Rebecca W.. Ed(S): ...
Hardback. Editor(s): Bassuk, Ellen L.; Carman, Rebecca W. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: BG; JFFH; MBPC; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 152. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306452673
- ISBN
- 9780306452673
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.30
€ 66.30