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History of medicine

Hardback. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; MBX; PDX; PSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 504.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137580924
ISBN
9781137580924
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.94

Hardback. How did early modern people imagine their bodies? What impact did the new disease syphilis and recurrent outbreaks of plague have on these mental landscapes? This text illuminates the period's disease-impregnated literature, including works by Shakespeare, Milton, and others. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 704.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
289
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333963999
ISBN
9780333963999
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.54

Hardback. Fighting fit Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBW; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 640.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750946490
ISBN
9780750946490
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.57

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823244454
ISBN
9780823244454
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.58

Hardback. Shows the value of historical epistemology from philosophical, historical, and anthropological perspectives Translator(s): Schott, Nils F. Series: Forms of Living. Num Pages: 220 pages, 35 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: MBX; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823244447
ISBN
9780823244447
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.84

paperback. Editor(s): Fell, Alison S.; Hallett, Christine E. Num Pages: 216 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBLL; HBWN; MBX; MQC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 145.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138952614
ISBN
9781138952614
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.57

Paperback. This is a study based on research into the records of the Nightingale Fund and how it was used to finance various experiments in nursing and midwifery training in the nineteenth century. It traces the development of nurse training and discusses the problems that beset a fledgling profession. Num Pages: 270 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: MBX; MQC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861560445
ISBN
9781861560445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 73.58

Paperback. In this comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology and Appalachian history and draws extensively on oral histories and archival sources from the 19th to the 21st century. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 illustrations, 2 maps, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; MBX; MX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Edition
1 New ed
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807854938
ISBN
9780807854938
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 27.16

Hardcover. Combines modern and medieval approaches to intellectual disability, and engages with a very wide range of sources in order to fill a major gap in this relatively new field, and demonstrate that disability, illness and healthcare are embedded in daily life Series: Disability History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLC1; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719096365
ISBN
9780719096365
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.94

Hardcover. Editor(s): Rousseau, G. S.; Herwig, Malte; Haycock, David B. Num Pages: 343 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB; JFC; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403912923
ISBN
9781403912923
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.60

A graceful writer and an expert biometrician, Bulmer details the eventual triumph of biometrical methods in the history of quantitative genetics based on Mendelian principles, which underpins our understanding of evolution today. Num Pages: 376 pages, 20, 3 black & white halftones, 17 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: BG; MBX; PSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 658.
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801874031
ISBN
9780801874031
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.97

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

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. Num Pages: 316 pages, 4 b/w illus. BIC Classification: CFZ; HBTB; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837621198
ISBN
9783837621198
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 37.58

Hardback. This book is open access under a CC BY license. The narrative of 20th-century medicine is the conquering of acute infectious diseases and the rise in chronic, degenerative diseases. The history of fungal infections does not fit this picture. This book charts the path of fungal infections from the mid 19th century to the dawn of the 21st century. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; MBX; MJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137377012
ISBN
9781137377012
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.53

Hardback. This book captures that heady, fleeting moment when a biologist could expect to do great science through the private sector and be rewarded with both wealth and scientific acclaim. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: KNDH1; KNDP; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421413402
ISBN
9781421413402
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.48

Paperback. Examines the textured interrelations between medical writing about generation and childbirth - what we now call reproduction - and emerging notions of selfhood in early modern England. This book looks at the particular assumptions about bodies and selves that medical language inevitably enfolds. Series: In Vivo. Num Pages: 259 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: MBX; MFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 182 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780295986418
ISBN
9780295986418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.81

Hardcover. This volume, the tenth of Hippocrates' invaluable texts on the practice of medicine in antiquity, provides essential information about human reproduction and reproductive disorders and expounds a general theory of physiology and pathology, in five Greek treatises presented with facing English translation. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 464 pages, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1; MBX; MFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 115 x 25. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Sew
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996830
ISBN
9780674996830
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.92

Paperback. Greene's history sheds light on the controversies shadowing the success of generics: problems with the generalizability of medical knowledge, the fragile role of science in public policy, and the increasing role of industry, marketing, and consumer logics in late-twentieth-century and early twenty-first century health care. Num Pages: 376 pages, 17, 8 black & white halftones, 9 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MBX; MMG; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 28. Weight in Grams: 550.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421421643
ISBN
9781421421643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.97

Hardback. The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. This title explores how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year. Num Pages: 752 pages, 40 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: JFFH1; KNDF1; MBX; MMZR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 227 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1170. Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition. 752 pages, Illustrations. The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. This title explores how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFFH1; KNDF1; MBX; MMZR. Dimension: 162 x 227 x 53. Weight: 1154.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
752
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520270169
ISBN
9780520270169
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 32.42

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