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History of medicine
Paperback. Editor(s): Dudgeon, R. E. Num Pages: 493 pages. BIC Classification: MBX; MX; VXHH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publisher
- B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd India
- Number of pages
- 493
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788131901854
- ISBN
- 9788131901854
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.24
€ 15.99
€ 12.24
Paperback. Now in paper! Writing in a charged, highly-accessible style, Edward Shorter covers the history of psychiatry from the late 18th century to the present. Num Pages: 448 pages, 32 photographs and engravings. BIC Classification: GBC; MBX; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 704.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471245315
- ISBN
- 9780471245315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 33.75
€ 47.99
€ 33.75
Paperback. HIV/ AIDS continues to be a major public health issue, affecting millions of sufferers worldwide. This Very Short Introduction explains the science, the international and local politics, the demographics, and the devastating consequences of the disease, and addresses some of the big issues that will concern us over the next decade. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 176 pages, 12 black and white images. BIC Classification: JFFH2; MBN; MBX; MJCJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 112 x 13. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198727491
- ISBN
- 9780198727491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.65
€ 13.99
€ 11.65
This engaging study will be of interest to historians, medical practitioners and researchers, and people whose lives have been altered by cancer. Num Pages: 232 pages, 9, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: MBX; MJCL; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801888311
- ISBN
- 9780801888311
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.02
€ 50.02
Paperback. For over two thousand years, attitudes to menopause have created dread, shame and confusion. This book traces the history of 'the change of life' from its appearance in classical texts, to the medical literature of the 18th century, to contemporary clinical approaches. It redresses the myths and captures the truths about menopause. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MBX; VFDW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847081711
- ISBN
- 9781847081711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.75
€ 13.99
€ 10.75
Hardback. Tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular triumph of medicine and public health. Series: California/ Milbank Books on Health & the Public. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 6 line illustrations, 3 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: MBNS; MBX; MJCJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520268364
- ISBN
- 9780520268364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.68€ 42.96
€ 54.68
€ 42.96
Paperback. What was medicine like in the time of Shakespeare and Oliver Cromwell? Documenting the use of household substances and remedies, this book looks at the emergence of modern medicine from everyday cures such as herbs, oils and foods. It also presents an investigation into the private lives of the spirited Stuarts of the 17th century. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 3JB; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 10. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752440279
- ISBN
- 9780752440279
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.41
€ 21.99
€ 19.41
Hardback. A foundation of Chinese life sciences and medicine, this title is available in an annotated English translation. Combining the views of different schools, it relies on natural law as conceptualized in "yin/yang" and Five Agents doctrines to define health and disease, and repeatedly emphasizes personal responsibility for the quality of one's life. Num Pages: 1560 pages, 2 volumes encased Book includes CD. BIC Classification: 1FPC; MBX; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 173 x 272 x 100. Weight in Grams: 2740. An Annotated Translation of Huang Di's Inner Classic - Basic Questions. Volumes of the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen Project. 1560 pages. A foundation of Chinese life sciences and medicine, this title is available in an annotated English translation. Combining the views of different schools, it relies on natural law as conceptualized in "yin/yang" and Five Agents doctrines to define health and disease, and repeatedly emphasizes personal responsibility for the quality of one's life. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPC; MBX; MX. Dimension: 173 x 272 x 100. Weight: 2736.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 1560
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Ct. Paul U. Unschuld, General ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520266988
- ISBN
- 9780520266988
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 203.28€ 143.65
€ 203.28
€ 143.65
Paperback. A detailed account of Kristy Duncan's experiences as she organized a multi-national, multi-discipline scientific expedition to exhume the bodies of a group of Norwegian miners, victims of the 1918 Spanish flu. Num Pages: 304 pages, 14 halftones, 5 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 3JJG; MBN; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 23. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802094568
- ISBN
- 9780802094568
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.89
€ 36.99
€ 32.89
Paperback. Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, this title reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 420 pages, 8 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; MBN; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283824
- ISBN
- 9780520283824
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.12
€ 40.99
€ 29.12
Paperback. Eighteen-year-old Nanette Leroux fell ill in 1822 with a variety of incapacitating nervous symptoms. Living near the spa at Aix-les-Bains, she became the charity patient of its medical director, Antoine Despine, who treated her with hydrotherapy and animal magnetism. This title offers an account of the young woman's mental afflictions. Num Pages: 264 pages, 14 halftones. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; MBX; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691152370
- ISBN
- 9780691152370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.12
€ 40.99
€ 29.12
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€ 13.25
€ 16.99
€ 13.25
Hardback. These "images of the fetus may be produced by machines,the authors write, "but they live vividly in the human imagination." Num Pages: 336 pages, 17, 15 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MBDC; MBX; MJT; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421407937
- ISBN
- 9781421407937
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.69
€ 67.69
hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812235982
- ISBN
- 9780812235982
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.19
€ 76.19
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 358 pages, 8 halftones 29 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; JMR; MBX; PDX; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691632216
- ISBN
- 9780691632216
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 230.52
€ 230.52
Paperback. BIC Classification: JFFH; JPH; JPWD; MBN; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 45. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Publisher
- Univ Of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781517900014
- ISBN
- 9781517900014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.24
€ 30.99
€ 27.24
Hardback. Based on Stearns's analysis of Muslim and Christian legal, theological, historical, and medical texts in Arabic, Medieval Castilian, and Latin, Infectious Ideas is the first book to offer a comparative discussion of concepts of contagion in the premodern Mediterranean world. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLC1; HRA; MBX; MMF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801898730
- ISBN
- 9780801898730
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.82
€ 77.82
Paperback. Connecting laboratory research, clinical medicine, social theory, and lived experience, Intolerant Bodies reveals how doctors and patients have come to terms, often reluctantly, with this novel and puzzling mechanism of disease causation. Series: Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: MBX; MJCM; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415338
- ISBN
- 9781421415338
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.10
€ 31.99
€ 30.10
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580465274
- ISBN
- 9781580465274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.98
€ 158.98
Hardback. A pioneering organ transplant surgeon narrates in gripping detail the revolutions that have transformed modern surgery, and the turmoil in medical education and health care reform as new capacities to prolong life and restore health run headlong into unsustainable costs. Tilney's stage is the famous Boston teaching hospital, Brigham and Women's. Num Pages: 384 pages, 33 halftones. BIC Classification: MBX; MN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 760.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674062283
- ISBN
- 9780674062283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.93
€ 47.99
€ 39.93