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  • Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine
    Marta Hanson
    This book is the biography of a Chinese disease. Born in antiquity and reaching maturity during the epidemics that swept China during the seventeenth-century collapse of the Ming dynasty, the ancient notion of wenbing 'Warm diseases' continued to play a role even in the response of Traditional Chinese Medicine to the outbreak of SARS in 2002-3. By following wenbing from its bir...
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    91,99 €

  • History of Circumcision
    Peter Charles Remondino
    This fascinating and very readable book goes into medical and historical detail about a part of the body most men (and some women) find extraordinarily interesting. ...
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    21,31 €

  • Science between Europe and Asia
    This book explores the various historical and cultural aspects of scientific, medical and technical exchanges that occurred between central Europe and Asia. A number of papers investigate the printing, gunpowder, guncasting, shipbuilding, metallurgical and drilling technologies while others deal with mapping techniques, the adoption of written calculation and mechanical clocks ...
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    207,67 €

  • Rabies in Britain
    Michael Worboys / Neil Pemberton
    Rabies was a constant threat in Victorian Britain and gripped popular imagination, not least because its human form, hydrophobia, produced a vile death with the mind and body out of control. This book explores the changing understanding of rabies amongst veterinarians, animal welfare campaigners, state officials, politicians and the public. ...
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    66,42 €

  • Raising the Dead and Returning Life
    Lorraine Wilcox
    Raising the Dead and Returning Life: Emergency Medicine of the Qīng Dynasty is essentially a first aid manual based on the practices of the common people of Southern China during the mid-nineteenth century. This book discusses first aid for cases that seem hopeless, such as hangings, drowning, poisoning, freezing, lightning strikes and so forth. Besides this, it includes treatm...
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    51,25 €

  • Children in Practice
    John Peterson
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    49,49 €

  • Childcare, health and mortality in the London Foundling Hospital, 1741-1800
    Alysa Levene
    This book is a thorough and appealing investigation into the health and welfare of abandoned babies and children in eighteenth-century England. It uses a variety of approaches to examine health, mortality and welfare practices, including family fostering, wet-nursing, disease and the impact of abandonment on survivorship. ...
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    29,60 €

  • Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe
    Nancy S. Struever
    Through close analysis of texts, cultural and civic communities, and intellectual history, the papers in this collection for the first time, propose a dynamic relationship between rhetoric and medicine as discourses and disciplines of cure in early modern Europe. Although the range of theoretical approaches and methodologies represented here is diverse, the essays explore vari...
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    267,73 €

  • Infectious Disease in India, 18921940
    Sandhya L. Polu
    A window into the highly complex Indian luxury market, providing strategies to guide brands in entering this high potential market and capturing the luxury rupee. Sets out to uncover strategies that will help to avoid market failure and leverage opportunities to win in India. ...
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    65,19 €

  • Cancer Patients, Cancer Pathways
    The eleven essays in this volume examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and North America. Rather than writing cancer’s history as that of inevitable progress and obstacles overcome, these scholars emphasize how contingency, politics, and institutional interests have informed approaches to research and treatment. Focusing on the interface ...
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    64,98 €

  • Mathematical Tables
    Charles Hutton / Olinthus Gregory
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    70,50 €

  • Advice to the Healer
    Richard Colgan
    This book introduces the origins of important teachings that form the basis of medicine and related healing professions. Reinforcing the humanistic side of patient care, this book replicates the tips, anecdotes and aphorisms often related by mentors and educators to medical students, residents, and young physicians. This book provides numerous examples of best practices in the ...
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    45,81 €

  • History of the Pancreas
    John M. Howard / Walter Hess
    Never before has a comprehensive history of the pancreas like History of the Pancreas been published. It not only is a historical review of the science of medicine, it is liberally interspersed with anecdotal vignettes of the researchers who have worked on this organ. Much of it, such as the discovery of the duct of Wirsüng, of the islets of Langerhan...
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    407,74 €

  • Physicians of Myddfai
    Terry Breverton
    About the BookThis is the first new and unexpurgated translation of Meddygon Myddfai, The Physicians of Myddfai, for over 150 years. The original mediaeval manuscripts are unique, being written in Middle Welsh, whereas across England and the rest of Europe, Latin was the universal language for documents. Nicholas Culpeper’s famous 17th century medical handbooks are at least fiv...
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    18,63 €

  • Telling Genes
    Alexandra Minna Stern
    The history of contemporary genetic counseling, including its medical, personal, and ethical dimensions.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLFor sixty years genetic counselors have served as the messengers of important information about the risks, realities, and perceptions of genetic conditions. More than 2,500 certified genetic counselors in the U...
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    86,57 €

  • Alchemy and Chemistry in the 16th and 17th Centuries
    The present volume owes its ongm to a Colloquium on 'Alchemy and Chemistry in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries', held at the Warburg Institute on 26th and 27th July 1989. The Colloquium focused on a number of selected themes during a closely defined chronological interval: on the relation of alchemy and chemistry to medicine, philosophy, religi...
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    207,95 €

  • Touching Distance
    Rebecca Abrams
    Touching Distance tells the story of a deadly epidemic without a cure. It is a stunning historical novel of passion, reason and hidden corruption set in 1790s Scotland. ...
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    19,01 €

  • History of the Treatment of Spinal Injuries
    John Russell Silver
    Injury of the spinal cord has been known since antiquity. There is no cure for the injury and until modern times patients died rapidly from a combination of pressure sores and urinary tract infection. Treatment consists of preventing complications until the spine has stabilised and the patient can be rehabilitated to an independent life. History of th...
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    66,16 €

  • The Medical Almanac
    Pasquale Accardo
    Now you Merely Acknowledge calendric resonances, the anniversary view of histmy, and catalogue them by Alphabetical Priority. -John Barth, Letters The history of medicine is a microcosm for the whole of human history. Its advances parallel progress in science and philosophy, civilization and ethics. Its pageantry mirrors all the triumphs and follies o...
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    66,44 €

  • AROUND THE WORLD WITH NEPHROLOGY
    ZBYLUT J TWARDOWSKI
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    133,93 €

  • Psychiatrische Epidemiologie
    Das Interesse an der Psychiatrie und an epidemiologischen Fragestellungen in der Psych­ iatrie ist gro~. Das ist nicht immer so gewesen. Trotz einiger Tradition war die psychiatri­ sche Epidemiologie in den deutschsprachigen Liindern tiber Jahrzehnte hin in Vergessen­ heit geraten. Vermutlich waren dafur die therapeutische Resignation, der Immobilismu...
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    84,84 €

  • Approaches to Healing in Roman Egypt
    Jane Draycott
    The purpose of this study is to examine the healing strategies employed by the inhabitants of Egypt during the Roman period, from the late first century BC to the fourth century AD, in order to explore how Egyptian, Greek and Roman customs and traditions interacted within the province. Thus this study aims to make an original contribution to the history of medicine, by offering...
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    60,78 €

  • DIALYSIS
    Carl M. Kjellstrand / Carl MKjellstrand / Mohamed Rahman / MOHAMED RAHMAN ET AL TODD S ING / Todd S. Ing / Todd SIng
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    484,69 €

  • The Sociology of Medical Regulation
    John Martyn Chamberlain
    This book provides a comprehensive examination of the complex issues surrounding the regulation of the medical profession. It offers up-to-date information on the current legislative framework and institutional arrangements surrounding the regulation in the United Kingdom. Well organized and written in an accessible way, it offers an insight into key sociological theories surro...
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    48,29 €

  • The Sociology of Medical Regulation
    John Martyn Chamberlain
    This book provides a comprehensive examination of the complex issues surrounding the regulation of the medical profession. It offers up-to-date information on the current legislative framework and institutional arrangements surrounding the regulation in the United Kingdom. Well organized and written in an accessible way, it offers an insight into key sociological theories surro...
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    133,01 €

  • Negotiating insanity in the southeast of Ireland, 1820-1900
    Catherine Cox
    Students and Lecturers in Irish and British medical and social history. ...
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    157,11 €

  • Medical Licensing and Discipline in America
    David A. Johnson / David AJohnson / Humayun J. Chaudhry / Humayun JChaudhry
    Medical Licensing and Discipline in America traces the evolution of the U.S. medical licensing system from its historical antecedents in the 18th and 19th century to its modern structure, emphasizing a focus on public accountability and the policies, guidelines and practices of medical boards. In doing so, the book underscores the role of the Federation of State Medical Boards ...
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    179,45 €

  • The Politics of Addiction
    S. Mars
    The Politics of Addiction  examines power and policy-making in the context of a bitter conflict between private and publicly employed doctors treating addiction. Regulation was used by both the profession and the state to shape the treatment of addiction and who could provide it, with the media feeding into the process. ...
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    47,91 €

  • Health and Wellness in Antiquity through the Middle Ages
    William York
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    88,87 €

  • Medical Licensing and Discipline in America
    David A. Johnson / David AJohnson / Humayun J. Chaudhry / Humayun JChaudhry
    Medical Licensing and Discipline in America traces the evolution of the U.S. medical licensing system from its historical antecedents in the 18th and 19th century to its modern structure, emphasizing a focus on public accountability and the policies, guidelines and practices of medical boards. In doing so, the book underscores the role of the Federation of State Medical Boards ...
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    74,28 €


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