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  • Traumatic Pasts
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    130,11 €

  • Logic, Signs and Nature in the Renaissance
    Ian MacLean
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    155,56 €

  • Encyclopedia of Birth Control
    Vern Bullough
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    126,63 €

  • Technology of Orgasm
    Rachel P Maines
    Winner of the Herbert Feis Prize from the American Historical Association Winner of the AFGAGMAS Biennial Book AwardWinner of the Science Award from the American Foundation for Gender and Genital Medicine From the time of Hippocrates until the 1920s, massaging female patients to orgasm was a staple of medical practice among Western physicians in the treatment of hysteria, an ai...
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    34,47 €

  • The Tale of Healer Miguel Perdomo Neira
    David Sowell
    This new book tells the story of Miguel Perdomo Niera, a healer whose amazing cures during his travels through the northern Andes in the 1860s and 1870s evoked both enormous hostility and widespread adulation. A combination of narrative and analysis, the book documents Perdomo’s experiences in Colombia and Ecuador and offers valuable insights into the social history of medicine...
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    59,99 €

  • Medical Ethics in the Ancient World
    Paul Carrick / Paul J. Carrick
    In this book Paul Carrick charts the ancient Greek and Roman foundations of Western medical ethics. Surveying 1500 years of pre-Christian medical moral history, Carrick applies insights from ancient medical ethics to developments in contemporary medicine such as advance directives, gene therapy, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, and surrogate motherhood. He discusses such ...
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    40,29 €

  • Biology of Plagues
    Christopher J. Duncan / Christopher JDuncan / Scott Susan / Susan Scott
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    193,65 €

  • Dying in the City of the Blues
    Keith Wailoo
    This groundbreaking book chronicles the history of sickle cell anemia in the United States, tracing its transformation from an 'invisible' malady to a powerful, yet contested, cultural symbol of African American pain and suffering.Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation’s first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social ...
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    47,60 €

  • Representations of HIV and AIDS
    Gabriele Griffin / TBD
    Gabriele Griffin argues that the explosion of HIV/AIDS intohighly visible cultural forms, from movies, theatre, activist interventions,and art from the late-1980s to the mid-1990s has been replaced by a retreat toartisitic invisibility. ...
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    26,10 €

  • Don’t Kill Your Baby
    JACQUELINE WOLF
    How did breastfeeding-once accepted as the essence of motherhood and essential to the well-being of infants-come to be viewed with distaste and mistrust? Why did mothers come to choose artificial food over human milk, despite the health risks? In this history of infant feeding, Jacqueline H. Wolf focuses on turn-of-the-century Chicago as a microcosm of the urbanizing United Sta...
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    44,16 €

  • Ways of Knowing
    John V Pickstone / John V. Pickstone / John VPickstone
    This classic MUP text discusses the historical development of science, technology and medicine in Western Europe and North America from the Renaissance to the present. Combining theoretical discussion and empirical illustration, it redefines the geography of science, technology and medicine. ...
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    22,19 €

  • Spreading Germs
    Michael Worboys
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    162,05 €

  • A History of Medicine in the Early U.S. Navy
    Harold D. Langley
    In this first detailed history of the development of medical treatment and professionalization in the early U.S. Navy, Harold Langley traces the evolution of medical practice in the Navy from the time Congress authorized the building of the first frigates in 1794, to the establishment of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in the Navy Department in 1842. Langley reveals that the...
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    41,26 €

  • Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550-1680
    Andrew Wear
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    84,83 €

  • Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550-1680
    Andrew Wear
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    38,54 €

  • Making the Body Beautiful
    Sander L. Gilman / Sander LGilman
    Nose reconstructions have been common in India for centuries. South Korea, Brazil, and Israel have become international centers for procedures ranging from eyelid restructuring to buttock lifts and tummy tucks. Argentina has the highest rate of silicone implants in the world. Around the globe, aesthetic surgery has become a cultural and medical fixture. Sander Gilman seeks to e...
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    64,46 €

  • Bellevue
    Don Gold
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    28,57 €

  • Nursing History Review, Volume 7, 1999
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    130,34 €

  • Sympathy and Science
    Regina Morantz-Sanchez
    When first published in 1985, Sympathy and Science was hailed as a groundbreaking study of women in medicine. It remains the most comprehensive history of American women physicians available. Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina Morantz-Sanchez examines women’s roles as nurses, midwives, and practitioners o...
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    64,63 €

  • A Fever in Salem
    Laurie Winn Carlson
    This new interpretation of the New England Witch Trials offers an innovative, well-grounded explanation of witchcraft’s link to organic illness. While most historians have concentrated on the accused, Laurie Winn Carlson focuses on the afflicted. Systematically comparing the symptoms recorded in colonial diaries and court records to those of the encephalitis epidemic in the ear...
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    12,80 €

  • How Scientists Explain Disease
    Paul Thagard
    How do scientists develop new explanations of disease? How do those explanations become accepted as true? And how does medical diagnosis change when physicians are confronted with new scientific evidence? These are some of the questions that Paul Thagard pursues in this pathbreaking book that develops a new, integrative approach to the study of science. Ranging through the hist...
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    69,26 €

  • The Progress of Experiment
    Harry M. Marks / Harry MMarks
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    51,79 €

  • Milestones in Health and Medicine
    Anne S. Harding / Anne SHarding
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    139,41 €

  • The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London
    Doreen Evenden
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    157,40 €

  • The Healing Arts
    R. S. Downie / RSDownie
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    100,83 €

  • Pathological Gambling
    Brian Castellani
    This first book on the history of gambling examines how it became a major social problem in the United States, and how it was made into a medical disorder. ...
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    42,15 €

  • Authorized to Heal
    Sandra Lee Barney
    In this book, Sandra Barney examines the transformation of medical care in Central Appalachia during the Progressive Era and analyzes the influence of women volunteers in promoting the acceptance of professional medicine in the region. By highlighting the critical role played by nurses, clubwomen, ladies’ auxiliaries, and other female constituencies in bringing modern medicine ...
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    54,60 €

  • Deadly Medical Mysteries
    Dian Dincin Buchman
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    11,67 €

  • Doctors Under Hitler
    Michael H. Kater / Michael HKater
    'A brilliant attempt to explain the profound historical crisis into which medicine had plummeted during the Nazi period with the tried methods of social history.--Historische Zeitschrift'The author has drawn from an extraordinary range of sources, and the weight of evidence he compiles will certainly give pause to anyone who still wants to believe that professionals kept their ...
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    53,77 €

  • Bugs in Armor
    Robert Bwire
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    17,38 €


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