History Of Medicine
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Spillover: the powerful, prescient book that predicted the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
David QuammenCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Read this gripping, timely book about the transmission of deadly viruses from animal to human populations, and how we can fight the current Covid-1...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
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Plague: A Very Short Introduction: A Very Short Introduction
Paul SlackCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was responsible...
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The Malta Thalidomide Affair
Anatole Baldacchino€15.00The Thalidomide affair remains one of the darkest chapters in the history of medicine. Belatedly proven to be a teratogenic drug, its distribution ...
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The Medicine Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
DKCurrent price €24.69Original price €25.99How are illnesses diagnosed? What is cancer? Why are some pandemics so deadly? This book explores big questions like these, explaining the breakthr...
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Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950
Elizabeth A WilliamsCurrent price €28.20Original price €30.99Why do we eat? Is it instinct, or some other impetus? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to eat are widespread in our cult...
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The Sick Rose: Or; Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration
Richard BarnettCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50The Sick Rose is a beautifully gruesome and strangely fascinating visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography. This stunning vo...
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Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
Arnold van de LaarCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50'This is history with a surgeon's touch: deft, incisive and sometimes excruciatingly bloody' The Sunday Times'Utterly eccentric and riveting' Mail ...
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Anatomy: Exploring the Human Body
Phaidon EditorsCurrent price €45.99Original price €49.99A stunning tribute to our eternal fascination with the human body Anatomy, Exploring the Human Body is a visually compelling survey of more than 5,...
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Nursing the English from Plague to Peterloo, 1665-1820
Alannah TomkinsCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99This book studies the negative stereotypes around the women who worked as sick nurses in this period and contrasts them with the lived experience o...
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Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood
Anne MendelsonCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99Why is cows milk, which few nonwhite people can digest, promoted as a science-backed dietary necessity in countries where the majority of the popul...
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Thomas Bartholin. Physician and anatomist: From unicorns to lymph vessels
Jesper Brandt AndersenCurrent price €67.44Original price €70.99Danish physician and anatomist Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680) was one of the most important anatomists of the 17th century. As a scientist, his great...
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Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy: Beautiful Mechanism
Meegan KennedyCurrent price €114.29Original price €126.99Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy examines a revolutionary period in microscopical technology and practice. At first considered a mere toy...
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Change Is Possible: Reflections on the History of Global Health
Alison T. HooverCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99A groundbreaking new history of global health from one of the greatest leaders in the field.In Change Is Possible, public health legend William H. ...
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A Key to the Tutor and Scholar''s Assistant. by Joseph Saul.
Joseph SaulCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50Current price €17.58Original price €18.50Save 5% -
A New Treatise of the Construction and Use of the Sector. Containing, the Solutions of the Principal Problems by That Admirable Instrument in the Chief Branches of Mathematicks, Being a Work of the...
MR CunnCurrent price €20.89Original price €21.99Current price €20.89Original price €21.99Save 5% -
Two Lectures on the Parallax and Distance of the Sun, as Deducible from the Transit of Venus. Read in Holden-Chapel at Harvard-College in Cambridge, New-England, in March 1769.
John WinthropCurrent price €18.04Original price €18.99Current price €18.04Original price €18.99Save 5% -
Melisselogia. Or, the Female Monarchy. Being an Enquiry Into the Nature, Order, and Government of Bees, Those Admirable, Instructive, and Useful Insects. ... by the Reverend Mr. John Thorley, of Ox...
John ThorleyCurrent price €21.84Original price €22.99Current price €21.84Original price €22.99Save 5% -
Specimens of British Minerals, Selected from the Cabinet of Philip Rashleigh, ... with General Descriptions of Each Article.
Philip RashleighCurrent price €18.99Original price €19.99Current price €18.99Original price €19.99Save 5% -
The Sentiments of the Professors of Physick, in the Foreign Universities, Concerning the Operations and Method of Curing the Diseases Incident to the eye, as Practised by John Taylor,
John TaylorCurrent price €27.08Original price €28.50Current price €27.08Original price €28.50Save 5% -
The Elements of the Conic Sections, as Preparatory to the Reading of Sir I. Newton''s Principia. By the Rev. S. Vince, A.M
Samuel VinceCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Current price €26.99Original price €29.99Save 10% -
A System for the Discipline of the Artillery of the United States of America, or, The Young Artillerist''s Pocket Companion. In Three Parts. Part I. Containing: The Formation of a Corps of Artiller...
William StevensCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99Current price €30.59Original price €33.99Save 10% -
Denis Brenan Bullen (1802-66) Inspector of Anatomy for the Province of Munster: The controversial career of a Cork surgeon
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An Essay on Combustion, with a View to a New Art of Dying and Painting. ... by Mrs. Fulhame.
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