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History of medicine
Hardback. In dark skirts and bloodied boots, Clara Barton fearlessly ventured on to Civil War battlefields to tend to wounded soldiers. She later founded and ran the American Red Cross. This book tells the story of this charitable organization from its start in 1881, through its humanitarian aid during wars, to its relief efforts of the 1930s. Num Pages: 404 pages, 19, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; MBN; MBX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 33. Weight in Grams: 752.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 404
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421407388
- ISBN
- 9781421407388
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.72
€ 55.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 130 pages. BIC Classification: MBX; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 210 x 10. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Imprint Academic United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 130
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845404505
- ISBN
- 9781845404505
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.67
€ 15.67
Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; HBTB; MBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 408
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403946935
- ISBN
- 9781403946935
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.78
€ 49.78
Hardcover. Elizabeth Hallam investigates the anatomy museum and how it reveals the fascination and fears that surround the dead body in Western societies. It also examines such topics as artistic works that employ images of dead bodies, and the debate over the disposal of corpses. Num Pages: 408 pages, 180 illustrations, 60 in colour. BIC Classification: GM; JHBZ; MBX; MFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 168. .
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861893758
- ISBN
- 9781861893758
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.17
€ 87.17
Paperback. The first book in the 500 Reflections on the RCP series, beginning with architecture of the Royal College Series: 500 Reflections on the RCP, 1518-2018. Num Pages: 112 pages, Approx. 80-100 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 151 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408706220
- ISBN
- 9781408706220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.57
€ 16.99
€ 12.57
Paperback. Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C. Series: Ancient Cultures. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAB; MBX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119025528
- ISBN
- 9781119025528
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.45
€ 34.45
Hardcover. Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C. Series: Ancient Cultures. Num Pages: 234 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAB; 3D; HBJF1; HBLA1; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405126526
- ISBN
- 9781405126526
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.64
€ 53.64
Hardback. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: MBX; MJCM1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231164849
- ISBN
- 9780231164849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.77
€ 31.99
€ 24.77
Paperback. An account of the phenomenon of antidepressants. The book chronicles the history of psychopharmacology and the current debate over drugs replacing psychotherapy, and explores the regulation of drug companies, what antidepressants reveal about the human brain and the sociology of drug marketing. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 line illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; MBX; MMGW; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674039582
- ISBN
- 9780674039582
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.16
€ 55.16
Paperback. As Horwitz explores the history and multiple identities of anxiety-melancholia, nerves, neuroses, phobias, and so on-it becomes clear that every age has had its own anxieties and that culture plays a role in shaping how anxiety is expressed. Series: Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBX; MMJ; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421410807
- ISBN
- 9781421410807
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.63
€ 31.99
€ 28.63
Paperback. The peculiar history of prosthetic devices sheds light on the relationship between technological change and the civilizing process of modernity, and analyzes the concrete materials of prosthetics which carry with them ideologies of body, ideals, body politics, and culture. Editor(s): Ott, Katherine; Serlin, David; Mihm, Stephen. Num Pages: 359 pages, halftones, 68 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; MBX; MQWP; PDZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814761984
- ISBN
- 9780814761984
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.64
€ 42.64
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
€ 86.43€ 65.15
€ 86.43
€ 65.15
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
€ 36.99
€ 35.14
Paperback. BIC Classification: MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 36. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784537586
- ISBN
- 9781784537586
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.73
€ 34.99
€ 31.73
hardcover. Baby Trouble in the Last Best West explores the ways that women's childbearing became understood as a social problem in early twentieth-century Alberta. Num Pages: 192 pages, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; JHBK; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442645684
- ISBN
- 9781442645684
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
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
€ 34.99
€ 31.57
Paperback. In this controversial new account of the history of medicine, David Wootton argues that, from the fifth century BC until the 1930s, doctors actually did more harm than good, and asks just how much harm they still do today. Num Pages: 336 pages, 32 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: HBG; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199212798
- ISBN
- 9780199212798
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.57
€ 23.99
€ 17.57
Paperback. Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto illustrates how this rapidly growing, underfunded but surprisingly effective institution found the niche that allowed it to exist, to provide medical care to a massive patient body and at times even to flourish in the apartheid state. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; MBP; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Wits University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781868147472
- ISBN
- 9781868147472
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.58
€ 31.99
€ 29.58
Paperback. Olson concludes that, although it has not yet been conquered, breast cancer is no longer the story of individual women struggling alone against a mysterious and deadly foe. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801880643
- ISBN
- 9780801880643
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.61
€ 27.99
€ 24.61
Hardback. Although the subject of federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) has been extensively debated, we actually do not know much about what takes place when they convene. This book melds observations of IRB meetings with the history of how rules for the treatment of human subjects were formalized in the United States. Series: Morality and Society Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBDC; MBGR; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226770864
- ISBN
- 9780226770864
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.57
€ 146.57
Paperback. Num Pages: 544 pages, 51 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; HBJF; HRE; JHM; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 2. Weight in Grams: 924.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231164979
- ISBN
- 9780231164979
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 81.96
€ 81.96
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Imperial College Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 150
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783262885
- ISBN
- 9781783262885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.64
€ 19.64
Bettering the Health of the People: W. Reece Berryhill, the UNC School...
McLendon, William W.; Denny, Floyd W.; Blythe...
hardcover. Celebrates the contributions of W Reece Berryhill, M D's and other public-spirited individuals dedicated to addressing North Carolinians' need for more doctors and more hospitals. This work also addresses the need for more insurance - that is, universal access to needed health care for all citizens, regardless of ability to pay. Num Pages: 496 pages, 100 illustrations, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; MBP; MBX. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 259 x 187 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1225.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- UNC at Chapel Hill Library United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780807831953
- ISBN
- 9780807831953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.72
€ 60.72
Paperback. Over the last five centuries, the development of modern weapons and warfare has created an entirely new set of challenges for practitioners in the field of military medicine. Between Flesh and Steel traces the development of military medicine from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: HBW; MBX; MMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612348223
- ISBN
- 9781612348223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.12
€ 26.99
€ 25.12