History Of Medicine
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The Impatient Dr. Lange: One Man''s Fight to End the Global HIV Epidemic
Seema YasminCurrent price €24.12Original price €26.50The incredible story of Joep Langes life and his unrelenting quest to end the HIV epidemic.When Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by pro-...
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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
Mark HonigsbaumCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a c...
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Generation. Nature of the Child. Diseases 4. Nature of Women. Barrenness
HippocratesCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99The definitive English edition of the Father of Medicine.This is the tenth volume in the Loeb Classical Librarys ongoing edition of Hippocrates inv...
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Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives
Adam S. CifuCurrent price €24.51Original price €28.50Why medicine adopts ineffective or harmful medical practices only to abandon themsometimes too late.Medications such as Vioxx and procedures such a...
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Asperger''s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
Edith ShefferCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, treating those children he deemed cap...
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On Hemorrhoids: A New Parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation
Moses MaimonidesCurrent price €81.69Original price €85.99Moshe ben Maimon, better known as Moses Maimonides, is among the most celebrated rabbis in the history of Judaism, and the author of works in Arabi...
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Schizophrenia: A Brother Finds Answers in Biological Science
Ronald ChaseCurrent price €24.12Original price €26.50When bright lives are derailed by schizophrenia, bewildered and anxious families struggle to help, and to cope, even as scientists search for cause...
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The Pursuit of Parenthood: Reproductive Technology from Test-Tube Babies to Uterus Transplants
Margaret MarshCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50A wide-ranging history of assisted reproductive technologies and their ethical implications.Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in History of...
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On the Other Hand: Left Hand, Right Brain, Mental Disorder, and History
Howard I. KushnerCurrent price €26.55Original price €29.50Since the late Stone Age, approximately 10 percent of humans have been left-handed, yet for most of human history left-handedness has been stigmati...
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The Clock and the Mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance Medicine
Nancy G. SiraisiCurrent price €70.29Original price €73.99Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), renowned as a mathematician, encyclopedist, astrologer, and autobiographer, was by profession a medical practitioner....
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Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures
SpringerCurrent price €3,364.49Original price €3,912.20This updated and augmented third edition of this landmark encyclopedia contains approximately 1000 entries dealing in depth with the history of the...
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The Smile Revolution: In Eighteenth-Century Paris
Colin A. JonesCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day h...
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The Healthy Country: A History of Life and Death in New Zealand
Alistair WoodwardCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99In this book, Alistair Woodward and Tony Blakely tell the extraordinary story of life and death in Aotearoa New Zealand from first Maori settlement...
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Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain
Tracey LoughranCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain is a thought-provoking reassessment of medical responses to war-related psychological br...
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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
Mark HonigsbaumCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99How can we understand the COVID-19 pandemic? Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing such catastrophi...
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Aufsätze zur arabischen Rezeption der griechischen Medizin und Naturwissenschaft
Manfred Rudiger Ullmann ArnzenCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99Current price €129.59Original price €143.99Save 10% -
Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time
Dr. Michael du PreezCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, ...
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The Medical Profession In Upper Canada, 1783-1850: An Historical Narrative With Original Documents Relating To The Profession, Including Some Brief Biographies
William CanniffCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Current price €19.79Original price €21.99Save 10% -
The English Malady: Or, A Treatise Of Nervous Diseases Of All Kinds, As Spleen, Vapours, Lowness Of Spirits, Hypochondriacal, And Hysterical Distempers, Etc. (In Three Parts) Part I. Of The Nature ...
George CheyneCurrent price €15.91Original price €18.50Current price €15.91Original price €18.50Save 14% -
Mighty Healer: Thomas Holloway''s Victorian Patent Medicine Empire
Verity HollowayCurrent price €16.84Original price €18.50Verity Holloway's nineteenth-century cousin Thomas Holloway's patent medicine empire was so ubiquitous, Charles Dickens commented that if you'd mur...
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Evolution of a Missouri Asylum: Fulton State Hospital, 1851-2006
Barbara BrazosCurrent price €22.35Original price €25.99Fulton State Hospital was not only Missouri s first state mental asylum but also the first such institution west of the Mississippi. In tracing its...
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First Patients: The incredible true stories of pioneer patients
Rod TanchancoCurrent price €17.19Original price €19.99Current price €17.19Original price €19.99Save 14% -
Duel Without End: Mankind''s Battle with Microbes
Stig S. FrolandCurrent price €34.39Original price €39.99In this panoramic and up-to-date account, we learn how the Black Death, smallpox, the Spanish flu and other great epidemics have led to enormous su...
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