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History of medicine

Hardback. This book explores the transnational character of tropical medicine as it was practiced in Europe and Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MBX; MMRT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 546.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804778138
ISBN
9780804778138
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.97

Paperback. Tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the third bubonic plague. Num Pages: 366 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFFH; MBNS; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
NYU Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
38212th
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814722336
ISBN
9780814722336
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.58

Hardback. Much of the improved survival rate from heart attack can be traced to Eugene Braunwald's work. He proved that myocardial infarction was an hours-long dynamic process which could be altered by treatment. The author tells the life story of a physician whose activist approach transformed not just cardiology but the culture of American medicine. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1KBB; BGT; MBX; MJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 149 x 32. Weight in Grams: 562.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674724976
ISBN
9780674724976
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 39.87

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

€ 161.17

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

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

€ 149.11

Paperback. Shows how nineteenth-century American physicians used anatomy to develop a professional identity, while claiming authority over the living and the dead. This book introduces the middle-class women and men, working people, entrepreneurs, and health reformers who resisted and exploited anatomy to articulate their own social identities and visions. Num Pages: 448 pages, 83 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 183 x 27. Weight in Grams: 654.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691118758
ISBN
9780691118758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.31

Hardback. The first contemporary translation of the 1,000-year-old text at the foundation of modern medicine and biology. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; MBX; VXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 164 x 39. Weight in Grams: 780.
Publisher
Inner Traditions Bear and Company United States
Number of pages
448
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594774324
ISBN
9781594774324
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.14

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

Paperback. It helps policy makers understand how best to develop and implement effective public health strategies around the United States. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFSG; MBN; MBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421415994
ISBN
9781421415994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.46

Hardback. November's thoroughly researched and lively study makes clear for readers the motives behind computerizing the study of life and how that technology profoundly affects biomedical research today. Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Num Pages: 360 pages, 17, 17 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBG; MBX; MQW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421404684
ISBN
9781421404684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.31

Paperback. Placebo Talks provides various perspectives on how psychosocial parameters - such as interpersonal rapport, historical and contemporary context, corporate memory, expectation, empathy, hope, conditioning, symbolic thinking, and suggestion - play a role in forming placebo responses and placebo effects. Editor(s): Raz, Amir; Harris, Cory. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JMM; MBX; MMGW; MMH; MMZ; PSAN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199680702
ISBN
9780199680702
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 99.38

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

€ 17.99
€ 16.99

Paperback. Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of patients. Charon argues that by making genuine contact with patients through storytelling, narrative medicine leads to more humane, ethical, and effective health care. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBDC; MBP; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195340228
ISBN
9780195340228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.29

Hardback. The first historian ever granted access to these exceptional medical records, Lamb offers a compelling new perspective on the integral but misunderstood legacy of Adolf Meyer. Num Pages: 320 pages, 22, 16 black & white halftones, 6 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MBX; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 176 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421414843
ISBN
9781421414843
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.90

Paperback.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
456
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580464604
ISBN
9781580464604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 50.19

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MBX; MJN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 170 x 13. Weight in Grams: 572.
Publisher
John Libbey & Co Australia
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780861966073
ISBN
9780861966073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 36.50

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

€ 13.99
€ 11.62

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBW; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Casemate Publishers United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612003412
ISBN
9781612003412
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.57

Hardback. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442629615
ISBN
9781442629615
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.18

Paperback. In Doctors of Empire, Hoi-eun Kim recounts the story of the almost 1,200 Japanese medical students who rushed to German universities to learn cutting-edge knowledge from the world leaders in medicine, and of the dozen German physicians who were invited to Japan to transform the country's medical institutions and education. Num Pages: 266 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1DFG; HBJD; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781487521455
ISBN
9781487521455
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.82

Hardback. A history of port health and immigration at a critical moment of transformation at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFFN; MBX; MJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719089657
ISBN
9780719089657
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.55

Hardcover. The second-century physician and philosopher Galen is not known for brevity. Although his writings on medicine are famously verbose and numerous, for centuries they constituted much of the standard syllabi for medical students. This title presents the Arabic and English versions side by side, with a fresh, modern, and authoritative translation. Translator(s): Walbridge, John. Series: Graeco-Arabic Sciences and Philosphy. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDA; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 240 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1076.
Publisher
Brigham Young University Press United States
Number of pages
544
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842528405
ISBN
9780842528405
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.90

Hardback. Medical Misadventure considers the doctors whose careers were disrupted or entirely derailed by misfortune, ineptitude, or temptation to crime. Conflicts with colleagues, and threats to medical masculinity, gave rise to extraordinary stories of loss, distress, and occasional recovery. Series: Social Histories of Medicine. Num Pages: 304 pages, 15 black & white illustrations,. BIC Classification: HBLL; HBTB; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (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
V9781526116079
ISBN
9781526116079
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.85

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