Medicine
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Medicine
Paperback. Offers a comparative approach to the complex interrelationships of microbes, markets, and medicine in the global economy. This book illustrates how the rapid growth of the international trade in animals through the nineteenth century engendered the spread of infectious diseases. Editor(s): Brown, Karen; Gilfoyle, Daniel. Series Editor(s): Webb, James L. A., Jr. Series: Ecology & History. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: MZM; TVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821418857
- ISBN
- 9780821418857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.27
€ 43.27
Paperback. In South Africa, rabies has been on the rise since the latter part of the twentieth century despite the availability of postexposure vaccines and regular inoculation campaigns for dogs. This book links the increase of rabies to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Editor(s): Brown, Karen. Series: Ecology & History. Num Pages: 228 pages, maps. BIC Classification: MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780821419533
- ISBN
- 9780821419533
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.06
€ 46.06
Hardback. Series: Perspectives on Global Health. Num Pages: 350 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFG; MBGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780821421727
- ISBN
- 9780821421727
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.56
€ 109.56
Paperback. Covers over 700 medicinal plants, of which more than 150 are readily obtainable in health-food stores and other outlets. In this book, each account of a plant includes the herbalist's comment, an assessment of the plant's efficacy, and information on its chemical constituents and pharmacological affects. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: MMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 43. Weight in Grams: 930.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822310198
- ISBN
- 9780822310198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.06
€ 46.06
Paperback. Editor(s): Kirkland, James K.; Matthews, Holly F.; Sullivan, Charles W.; Baldwin, Karen. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MMG; VXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5944 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822312178
- ISBN
- 9780822312178
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.06
€ 46.06
paperback. Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 328 pages, 22 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JPWD; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822316954
- ISBN
- 9780822316954
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.06
€ 46.06
Paperback. Focuses on the life, practices, and accumulated knowledge of the late A L Tommie Bass, a widely-known and admired Appalachian herbalist. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: MBX; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 27. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780822320173
- ISBN
- 9780822320173
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.93
€ 39.93
Paperback. Presents a comprehensive collection of writings, including essays from the 1980s and 1990s that present an argument about the AIDS epidemic. The author addresses a range of issues, from biomedical discourse and theories of pathogenesis to the mainstream media's depictions of the crisis in both developed and developing countries. Num Pages: 496 pages, 83 b&w images. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; MBNS; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 38. Weight in Grams: 807.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323181
- ISBN
- 9780822323181
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.29
€ 50.29
Paperback. If Chinese medicine is "traditional," why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? What is the secret to Chinese medicine's remarkable adaptability that has allowed it to prosper for more than 2000 years? This title deals with these questions. Series: Science & Cultural Theory. Num Pages: 432 pages, 43 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; MB; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822328728
- ISBN
- 9780822328728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.43
€ 51.43
Paperback. An ethnography of Ayurvedic medicine which argues the ills it cures are largely effects of postcolonial identity. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 illus., 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHMP; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329480
- ISBN
- 9780822329480
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.06
€ 46.06
Paperback. Presents an examination of how the migration of nurses from the Philippines to the US is inextricably linked to American imperialism and the US colonization of the Philippine Islands in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; JHBL; MQC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330899
- ISBN
- 9780822330899
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.87
€ 36.87
Paperback. A collection of essays on medicine and media from newspapers through film, television, and computers Editor(s): Friedman, Lester D. Num Pages: 472 pages, 82 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822332947
- ISBN
- 9780822332947
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.69
€ 50.69
Paperback. Argues that the rise in psychiatric drug treatments was not a radical turn away from psychoanalysis, but instead carries on Freudian assumptions, especially in relation to gender. Num Pages: 296 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822335245
- ISBN
- 9780822335245
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.94
€ 37.94
Paperback. A history and theorization of the representation of public health concerns in commercial cinema and educational film Num Pages: 288 pages, 98 b&w photos. BIC Classification: APFA; MJCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822336488
- ISBN
- 9780822336488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.75
€ 46.75
paperback. Combines the histories of empire, leisure, tourism, culture, and medicine to explain how therapeutic spas for colonists facilitated French imperialism between 1830 and 1962. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 photos, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBTB; MBX; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822338222
- ISBN
- 9780822338222
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.72
€ 45.72
paperback. First systematic medical history of Bolivia for the 20th century, viewing political change from the perspective of public health. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12 b&w photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFC; JFSJ; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780822339168
- ISBN
- 9780822339168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.06
€ 46.06
Paperback. An investigation of the creation and circulation of Western medical discourses linking ideas about disease to Chinese identity, beginning in the eighteenth century. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 248 pages, 42 illustrations, incl. 8 in color. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822341130
- ISBN
- 9780822341130
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.64
€ 42.64
Paperback. Weighs in on consumer-driven health care (CDHC). This book contends that supporters of CDHC rely on oversimplified ideas about health care, health care systems, economics, and human nature. It challenges the historical and theoretical assumptions on which the consumer-driven health care movement is based. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822341246
- ISBN
- 9780822341246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.70
€ 45.70
Paperback. Traditional Chinese medicine is often portrayed as an enduring system of therapeutic knowledge that has become globalized in recent decades. This title argues that the discourses and practices called 'traditional Chinese medicine' are made through, rather than prior to, translocal encounters and entanglements. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822343844
- ISBN
- 9780822343844
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.20
€ 46.20
Paperback. An exploration of the symbolic role that the illicit drug user fulfills for the neoliberal state and of counterpublic health measures that do not cast health as antithetical to pleasure. Num Pages: 280 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JFSK; MBS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822345015
- ISBN
- 9780822345015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.97
€ 36.99
€ 33.97