History Of Medicine
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The Cult of Youth: Anti-Ageing in Modern Britain
James F. StarkCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99In this major new study, James F. Stark provides the first historical account of the most dominant ideas, practices, and material cultures associat...
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RCPCH: The First Twenty One Years
Royal College of Paediatrics & Child HealthCurrent price €24.12Original price €26.50Current price €24.12Original price €26.50Save 9% -
Correcting Errors in Standard Bone Measurement: Kotsu Do Sei Go Zu Setsu 骨度正誤
Sōsen MurakamiCurrent price €34.79Original price €39.99Current price €34.79Original price €39.99Save 13% -
With and Without Galton: Vasilii Florinskii and the Fate of Eugenics in Russia
Krementsov NikolaiCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Current price €25.65Original price €28.50Save 10% -
Eponyms and Names in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Thomas F. BaskettCurrent price €124.44Original price €130.99Few specialties have a longer or richer eponymous background than obstetrics and gynaecology. Eponyms add a human side to an increasingly technical...
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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris
Mark HonigsbaumCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a ...
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The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations
Thomas MorrisCurrent price €15.91Original price €18.50'Thrilling... The dizzying story of heart surgery is every bit as important as that of the nuclear, computer or rocket ages. And now it has been gi...
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No Matter Where the Journey Takes Me: One Mans Quest for a Leprosy-Free World
Yohei SasakawaCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Leprosy has tormented mankind since records began. For much of its long history it was without curea disfiguring disease that stigmatised those it ...
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A Cure Within: Scientists Unleashing the Immune System to Kill Cancer
Neil CanavanCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Current price €17.99Original price €19.99Save 10% -
Superbugs: the race to stop an epidemic
Matt McCarthyCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Drug-resistant bacteria known as superbugs are one of the biggest medical threats of our time. Here, a doctor, researcher, and ethics professor t...
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Lessons Learned: The Australian Military and Tropical Medicine
Geoffrey QuailCurrent price €22.87Original price €25.99Historically, prolonged campaigns have been frequently lost or won because of the greater fitness of one of the combatant armies. In the twentieth ...
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Queen Square: A History of the National Hospital and its Institute of Neurology
Alastair CompstonCurrent price €78.84Original price €82.99As the first neurological hospital in the world, founded in 1859, the National Hospital, Queen Square, and its affiliated Institute of Neurology re...
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Final Witness: The Story of Song Ci China''s First Crime Scene Investigator: 2
Wang HongjiaCurrent price €13.08Original price €16.99Current price €13.08Original price €16.99Save 23% -
The Lives of Justine Johnstone: Follies Star, Research Scientist, Social Activist
Kathleen VestutoCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50As a Ziegfeld Follies girl and film actress, Justine Johnstone (1895-1982) was celebrated as the most beautiful woman in the world. Her career t...
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Heart: A History: Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019
Sandeep JauharCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Jauhar weaves his own personal and family story into his history of the heartvery effectively This gives a certain dramatic tension to the book, as...
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Nursing Through the Years: Care and Compassion at the Royal London Hospital
Barbara StuchfieldCurrent price €29.58Original price €32.50Nursing has always been a challenging but rewarding profession. As part of the core healthcare team, nurses take responsibility for the care they p...
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The Bristol Microscopists and the Cholera Epidemic of 1849
Michael WhitfieldCurrent price €6.36Original price €6.99Current price €6.36Original price €6.99Save 9% -
Waking Up Safer?: An Anesthesiologist''s Record
Berend MetsCurrent price €15.93Original price €17.50Six general anesthetics! Yes six! That is the astonishing number of anesthetics the average American will experience in a lifetime. Yet most people...
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Asylums, Mental Health Care and the Irish: 1800-2010
Irish Academic Press LtdCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Current price €15.29Original price €16.99Save 10% -
Fatal Evidence: Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor & the Dawn of Forensic Science
Helen BarrellCurrent price €21.57Original price €25.99A surgeon and chemist at Guy s Hospital in London, Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor used new techniques to search the human body for evidence that on...
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Maladies and Medicine: Exploring Health and Healing, 1540 - 1740
Jennifer EvansCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Maladies and Medicine offers a lively exploration of health and medical cures in early modern England. The introduction sets out the background in ...
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The Smile Stealers: The Fine and Foul Art of Dentistry
Richard BarnettCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50This achingly jawdropping book follows the evolution of dentistry throughout the world from the Bronze Age to the present day, presenting captivati...
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