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Hardcover. Obesity among American children has reached epidemic proportions. Laura Dawes traces changes in diagnosis, treatment, and popular conceptions of the most serious health problem facing American children today, and makes the case that understanding the cultural history of a disease is critical to developing effective public health policy. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; MBX; MJW; MMZF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674281448
- ISBN
- 9780674281448
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.78€ 52.48
€ 56.78
€ 52.48
Hardback. This illustrated history is a comprehensive introduction to Chinese healing practices across time and cultures. Global contributions from 58 scholars in archaeology, history, anthropology, religion, and medicine make this a vital resource for those working in East Asian or world history, medical history, anthropology, biomedicine, and healing arts. Editor(s): Hinrichs, T. J.; Barnes, Linda L. Num Pages: 480 pages, 76 halftones, 5 line illust7ations, 9 maps, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; MBX; MX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 249 x 34. Weight in Grams: 908.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674047372
- ISBN
- 9780674047372
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.15€ 54.32
€ 59.15
€ 54.32
Hardback. This book seeks to explain why, among the innumerable problems faced by societies, some problems in some places become viewed as critical public issues that shape health policy. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; MBX; MJC; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421413020
- ISBN
- 9781421413020
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.98€ 56.12
€ 60.98
€ 56.12
Paperback. This is a detailed and comprehensive reference text for people wanting extensive background knowledge of complementary therapies and the background to their development. It also includes interesting sections on the complex relationship between eastern and western medicine; and how both have developed and progressed within the very recent past. Num Pages: 320 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: MBX; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Pub
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853026409
- ISBN
- 9781853026409
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 44.74
€ 44.99
€ 44.74
Num Pages: 166 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: MBX; MJCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 150 x 225 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611223057
- ISBN
- 9781611223057
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 110.11€ 76.98
€ 110.11
€ 76.98
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781526113474
- ISBN
- 9781526113474
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.57€ 95.49
€ 106.57
€ 95.49
Paperback. This text traces the history of contraception and abortifacients from ancient Egypt to the 17th century, and discusses the scientific merit of the ancient remedies and why this knowledge about fertility control was gradually lost over the course of the Middle Ages. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 tables, 6 halftones, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFMA; JHBD; MBNH4; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674168763
- ISBN
- 9780674168763
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.93
€ 38.99
€ 32.93
Hardback. By 1940, Acker concludes, a particular configuration of ideas about opiate addiction was firmly in place and remained essentially stable until the enormous demographic changes in drug use of the 1960s and 1970s prompted changes in the understanding of addiction-and in public policy. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFFH1; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801867989
- ISBN
- 9780801867989
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.25€ 52.02
€ 56.25
€ 52.02
Hardback. Jones compellingly narrates the biography of this frightfully hardy disease from the ancient world through the present day. Series: Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease. Num Pages: 352 pages, 11, 8 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MBX; MJCJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 150 x 27. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801896965
- ISBN
- 9780801896965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.27
€ 34.99
€ 29.27
Diabetes Mellitus: A Medical History Journey (Public Health: Practices...
Greydanus, Donald E., Merrick, Professor Joav
Paperback. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: MBX; MJGD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781536100945
- ISBN
- 9781536100945
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 137.35€ 103.86
€ 137.35
€ 103.86
hardcover. Editor(s): Kamboj, Manmohan K.; Greydanus, Donald E.; Merrick, Professor Joav, MD, MMedSci, DMSc. Num Pages: 130 pages. BIC Classification: MBX; MJGD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 130
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781536100952
- ISBN
- 9781536100952
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 220.24€ 165.57
€ 220.24
€ 165.57
Hardback. As Fee demonstrates, not simply in its formation but throughout its history the School of Hygiene served as a crucible for the forces shaping the public health profession as a whole. Num Pages: 304 pages, 30, 30 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; MBN; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421421100
- ISBN
- 9781421421100
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 34.64
€ 41.99
€ 34.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Tulika Book India
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9789382381051
- ISBN
- 9789382381051
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.68
€ 25.99
€ 19.68
Paperback. This volume provides a concise introduction to the diverse ideas about disease and its treatment throughout the world. Drawing on case studies from ancient Egypt to 21st-century America and Europe, this survey discusses concepts of sickness and forms of treatment in different cultures. Series: Themes in World History. Num Pages: 176 pages, 10 black & white tables. BIC Classification: HBG; MBX; MJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 14. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415278171
- ISBN
- 9780415278171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.72
€ 55.72
paperback. Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, this work advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. It provides a look at the research in the history of medicine through essays about how disease was experienced and managed in different Latin American countries and regions, at different times. Editor(s): Armus, Diego. Num Pages: 336 pages, 29 illus. BIC Classification: 1KL; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330691
- ISBN
- 9780822330691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.64
€ 31.99
€ 28.64
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691611570
- ISBN
- 9780691611570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.13€ 51.02
€ 65.13
€ 51.02
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442629615
- ISBN
- 9781442629615
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.77
€ 57.77
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€ 32.90
€ 35.99
€ 32.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 428 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFHC; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- Trine Day
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634240307
- ISBN
- 9781634240307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.69
€ 20.99
€ 20.69
Paperback. Simon Forman was one of the extraordinary personalities of Elizabethan and Jacobean London. Like most doctors, he was also an astrologer, reading the stars for all and sundry. This book uncovers Forman's private world, that of a compulsive womaniser who kept a coded diary, a record of promiscuity as colourful as the journals of Pepys and Boswell. Num Pages: 240 pages, facsimiles, , portraits. BIC Classification: BGH; MBX; VXFA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188. Light shelf wear, else as new.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KTG0021070
- ISBN
- 9780099289623
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99