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History of medicine

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History of medicine

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

Hardback. Written in honour of eminent historian Roy Porter by twenty of his colleagues and students, this work presents historians from the three fields that Porter made his own - the histories of medicine, madness, and the Enlightenment - illustrate his influence while tackling major themes ranging from disability rights to the popularization of science. Editor(s): Bivins, Roberta E.; Pickstone, John V. Num Pages: 305 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: MBX; MJN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 515.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
305
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230525498
ISBN
9780230525498
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.15

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 264 x 308 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1776.
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241225967
ISBN
9780241225967
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.00

Paperback. Western Europe supported a highly developed and diverse medical community in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. In her absorbing history of this complex era inmedicine, Siraisi explores the inner workings of the medical community and illustrates the connections of medicine to both natural philosophy and technical skills. Num Pages: 264 pages, 49 halftones. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 170 x 14. Weight in Grams: 422. Introduction to Knowledge and Practice. 264 pages, 49 halftones. Western Europe supported a highly developed and diverse medical community in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. In her absorbing history of this complex era inmedicine, Siraisi explores the inner workings of the medical community and illustrates the connections of medicine to both natural philosophy and technical skills. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; MBX. Dimension: 236 x 170 x 14. Weight: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226761305
ISBN
9780226761305
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.92

Paperback. An up-to-date survey of medieval Islamic medicine offering new insights to the role of medicine and physicians in medieval Islamic culture. Series: The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys. Num Pages: 240 pages, 22, b&w. BIC Classification: 1QFM; 3F; 3H; JFSR2; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 366. Series: The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys. 240 pages, 22, b&w. An up-to-date survey of medieval Islamic medicine offering new insights to the role of medicine and physicians in medieval Islamic culture. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1QFM; 3F; 3H; JFSR2; MBX. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 13. Weight: 366.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
n
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748620678
ISBN
9780748620678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 32.13

Paperback. A time when butchers and executioners knew more about anatomy than university-trained physicians - travel back to a time of such unlikely remedies as leeches, roasted cat and red bed curtains Num Pages: 304 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; HBLC1; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 28. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445655420
ISBN
9781445655420
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.67

Hardcover. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 1DND; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 249 x 175 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1004.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772897646
ISBN
9788772897646
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.40
€ 46.95

Hardcover. Num Pages: 460 pages. BIC Classification: JHM; MBPK; MBX; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 187 x 264 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1074.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Nova Science Pub Inc
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781634848091
ISBN
9781634848091
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 289.91
€ 216.89

Paperback. Through an examination that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary literature, this book places the twentieth-century mental hygiene movement within the broad sweep of modern British psychiatry, offering its own reinterpretation of important elements of this history. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; MBX; MMH; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349458080
ISBN
9781349458080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.06

Hardback. Describes the world of mental patients and their doctors in the first half of the twentieth century. This book shows how well-intentioned physicians could rationalize and regard as therapeutic treatments that often had dreadful consequences, and how much the social and cultural world is inscribed within the practice of biological psychiatry. Series: Medicine and Society S. Num Pages: 262 pages, 18. BIC Classification: 3JJ; MBN; MBX; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520205475
ISBN
9780520205475
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.92
€ 53.97

Hardcover.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996793
ISBN
9780674996793
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 32.96

Hardcover. In Method of Medicine, Galen (129--199 CE) provides a comprehensive and influential account of the principles of treating injury and disease. Enlivening the detailed case studies are many theoretical and polemical discussions, acute social commentary, and personal reflections. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 624 pages, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1QDA; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 115 x 31. Weight in Grams: 434.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
624
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996526
ISBN
9780674996526
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 32.96

Hardcover.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
592
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1 Blg
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996809
ISBN
9780674996809
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.99

Hardback. Michael Ryan's Writings on Medical Ethics offers an annotated reprint of his key ethical writings. It also analyzes the significance of these ethical works and places Ryan within the historical trajectory of the field of medical ethics. Editor(s): Brody, Howard; Meghani, Zahra; Greenwald, Kimberly. Series: Philosophy and Medicine. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBDC; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1220.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
annotated ed
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9789048130481
ISBN
9789048130481
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 199.22

Paperback / so. Num Pages: 43 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: MBX; MJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 2. Weight in Grams: 92.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1914
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
43
Condition
New
SKU
V9783662232828
ISBN
9783662232828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.06

Hardback. A non-specialist history of antibiotics, including penicillin, streptomycin and others. Wainwright discusses the antecedents of modern antibiotics and the antiquity of moulds to treat infection. He concludes with a discussion on recent developments in modern antibiotic research. Num Pages: 288 pages, index. BIC Classification: MBX; PDX; PSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631164920
ISBN
9780631164920
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.73

Hardcover. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; MBX; VXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1096.
Publisher
Wisdom Publications,U.S. United States
Number of pages
600
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780861714674
ISBN
9780861714674
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.70
€ 52.09

Paperback. Bringing together colorful historical vignettes, social and anthropological theory, and quantitative analyses, this title examines these interactions between the Khmer, Cham, and Vietnamese of Cambodia and the French, documenting the differences in their understandings of medicine. Num Pages: 280 pages, 19 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1FMC; 3JJ; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226031644
ISBN
9780226031644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.39

Paperback. Modernism and Eugenics comprehensively explores modern Europe's fixation with eugenic programmes of racial and national purification. It convincingly demonstrates that between 1870 and 1940 eugenicists were not only preoccupied with rescuing the individual from the anomie of modernity but equally championed a glorious racial destiny for the nation. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW; JHBD; JPFQ; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230230835
ISBN
9780230230835
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Modernism and Eugenics comprehensively explores modern Europe's fixation with eugenic programmes of racial and national purification. It convincingly demonstrates that between 1870 and 1940 eugenicists were not only preoccupied with rescuing the individual from the anomie of modernity but equally championed a glorious racial destiny for the nation. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW; JHBD; JPFQ; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
189
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230230828
ISBN
9780230230828
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

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