History Of Medicine
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Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World
Elinor CleghornCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, fel...
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Plague: A Very Short Introduction
Paul SlackCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was respons...
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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 €23.65Original 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 €27.95Original 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 €16.84Original 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 €39.99Original 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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Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
Jim DownsCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern me...
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Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
Kathryn OlivariusCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Disease is thought to be a great leveler of humanity, but in antebellum New Orleans acquiring immunity from the scourge of yellow fever magnified t...
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Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
Jim DownsCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Maladies of Empire has a captivating writing style, is exhaustively researched, and is persuasive in argumentation. Jim Downs has written a game-ch...
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The Politics of Disease: An American History from Columbus to Covid
David R. PetrielloCurrent price €45.49Original price €49.99Even a pandemic is subject to politics. In history, disease has always been a major catalyst for change, influencing wars, the rise and fall of lea...
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Sur une forme particulire de conjonctivite infectieuse semblant se rattacher un contage animal
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lmens de l''Art Vtrinaire. de la Conformation Des Animaux, Des Considrations: Auxquelles on Doit s''Arrter Dans Le Choix Qu''on Doit En Faire, Des Soins Qu''ils Exigent
Claude BourgelatCurrent price €17.28Original price €18.99Current price €17.28Original price €18.99Save 9% -
Health and Girlhood in Britain, 1874-1920
H. MarlandCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This first major study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood shaped ideas about the lives of young...
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Health and Girlhood in Britain, 1874-1920
H. MarlandCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This first major study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood shaped ideas about the lives of young...
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Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights
Dennis B. DowneyCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99Conceived in the era of eugenics as a solution to what was termed the problem of the feeble-minded, state-operated institutions subjected people wi...
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The Sounds of Furious Living: Everyday Unorthodoxies in an Era of AIDS
Matthew KellyCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99Four decades have passed since reports of a mysterious gay cancer first appeared in US newspapers. In the ensuing years, the pandemic that would c...
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The Medieval Economy of Salvation: Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital
Adam J. DavisCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99In The Medieval Economy of Salvation, Adam J. Davis shows how the burgeoning commercial economy of western Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth cen...
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Rest Uneasy: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-Century America
Brittany CowgillCurrent price €134.67Original price €147.99Tracing the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) diagnosis from its mid-century origins through the late 1900s, Rest Uneasy investigates the process...
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Rest Uneasy: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-Century America
Brittany CowgillCurrent price €47.31Original price €51.99Tracing the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) diagnosis from its mid-century origins through the late 1900s, Rest Uneasy investigates the process...
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