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  • Makers of Modern Medicine
    James J. Walsh / James JWalsh
    James Joseph Walsh, M.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Sc.D. (1865-1942) was an American physician and author, born in New York City. He graduated from Fordham College in 1884 and from the University of Pennsylvania (M.D.) in 1895. After postgraduate work in Paris, Vienna and Berlin he settled in New York.This books contains essays about the birth of modern medicine and those men who first ...
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    10,81 €

  • Old-Time Makers of Medicine
    James J. Walsh / James JWalsh
    James Joseph Walsh, M.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Sc.D. (1865-1942) was an American physician and author, born in New York City. He graduated from Fordham College in 1884 and from the University of Pennsylvania (M.D.) in 1895. After postgraduate work in Paris, Vienna and Berlin he settled in New York. ...
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    13,29 €

  • Africa in the Time of Cholera
    Myron J. Echenberg / Myron JEchenberg
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    38,46 €

  • Environment, Health and History
    The environment is currently a matter of international public and academic concern, but is often considered separately from health issues. This book brings together work from environmental and health historians to conceptualise the connection between environment and health at different times and in different geographical locations. ...
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    47,73 €

  • The Philosophical Foundations of Modern Medicine
    K. Lee
    An exploration of the philosophical foundation of modern medicine which explains why such a medicine possesses the characteristics it does and where precisely its strengths as well as its weaknesses lie. Written in plain English, it should be accessible to anyone who is intellectually curious, lay persons and medical professionals alike. ...
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    48,08 €

  • Women’s medical work in early modern France
    Susan Broomhall / Susan Dr Broomhall
    Situates the practices and perceptions of women’s medical work in France in the context of the sixteenth century and its medical evolution and innovations. The book argues that early modern understandings of medical practice and authority were highly flexible and subject to change. ...
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    33,02 €

  • Containing trauma
    Christine E. Hallett / Christine EHallett / Christine Hallett
    In this highly original contribution to knowledge about a little-known subject: the history of nursing work, Christine Hallett explores the nature and meaning of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War ...
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    31,87 €

  • A Cretan Healer’s Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition
    Patricia Ann Clark
    This is an edition and translation of a traditional healer’s notebook from Crete. It belongs to the genre of iatrosophia: practical manuals of collected healing wisdom with admixtures of agricultural and household lore and elements of religious, astrological and magical beliefs. At its core lies material from earlier classical and Byzantine medical traditions. This is the first...
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    254,16 €

  • The People Who Made The Pill
    David M. C. Hislop / David MCHislop
    The Only book you will ever need to learn about The Pill and the people who brought it to life. 2010 commemorated the 50th anniversary of the approval of the oral contraceptive pill by the Food and Drug Administration. The history and the development of the oral contraceptive pill are rich in drama-cultural, financial, scientific, spiritual, and political. Dr. David Hislop...
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    21,02 €

  • Why Millions Died
    George H. Scherr / George HScherr
    This book reviews the slow development of research by isolated investigators who believed that diseases could be caused by infectious organisms. Millions of deaths occurred until the professional communities and general public began to believe that certain health measures could protect against infection and reduce enormous death tolls from disease. ...
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    51,89 €

  • Zur Geschichte des pathophysiologischen Denkens
    T. Henkelmann
    Es ist nicht die Absicht der vorliegenden Untersuchung, eine Gesamtdarstellung des Brownschen Systems und sei­ ner Wirkungsgeschichte zu geben. Eine solche Arbeit ware noch zu schreiben, wobei man sich allerdings sehr kritisch ihrer Relevanz versichern miiBte. Die vorliegende Unter­ suchung will zu Fragen einer Theoretischen Pathologie Stellung nehmen...
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    85,53 €

  • Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy
    Jan Goldstein
    A unique account of a peasant girl’s mental illness in nineteenth-century FranceHysteria Complicated by Ecstasy offers a rare window into the inner life of a person ordinarily inaccessible to historians: a semiliterate peasant girl who lived almost two centuries ago, in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Eighteen-year-old Nanette Leroux fell ill in 1822 with a variety of i...
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    46,02 €

  • Historische Konzepte einer Theoretischen Pathologie
    H. Schipperges
    Die vorliegende Studie zur 'Theoretischen Pathologie' geht auf langjahrige Handschriftenanalysen zur grie­ chisch-arabischen Medizin zuriick, die ich - mit Unterstut­ zung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft - in den Jahren 1967, 1971 und 1977 im Rahmen von vorlesungs­ freien Forschungssemestern in spanischen Bibliotheken durchfuhren konnte. Gegensta...
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    85,51 €

  • African Traditional Medicine
    Philemon Omerenma Amanze
    AFRICAN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE AMONG SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS:  Revealed that African traditional medicine could be used in the explicable or inexplicable form.  Examined the veracity of the claim that the practice and use of African traditional medicine amounted to idolatry,  Identified the patterns and extent of the practice and use of traditional medicine among the Seventh-...
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    25,41 €

  • Air Instrument Surgery
    The use of the compressed air-driven turbine for the activation of surgical burs and saws as developed by Dr. Robert M. Hall has been a boon for the plastic, max­ illofacial, and oral surgeon. The development of air instrument surgery coincided with the opening of new vistas in surgery in the area of craniofacial surgery. Cranio­ facial osteotomies fo...
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    67,94 €

  • Nursing before Nightingale, 1815-1899
    Carol Helmstadter / Judith Godden
    Nursing Before Nightingale is a study of the transformation of nursing in England from the beginning of the nineteenth century until the emergence of the Nightingale nurse as the standard model in the 1890s. From the nineteenth century onwards, historians have considered Florence Nightingale, with her training school established at St. Thomas’s Hospital in 1860, the founder of ...
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    254,52 €

  • Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia
    This book examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the twentieth century until now, in the context of colonial rule, post-colonial development and modern state-building. ...
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    295,19 €

  • Zlaya Korcha
    Denis Absentis
    The end of the millennium was approaching and when a plague of invisible fire broke out, cutting off limbs from the body and consuming many in a single night, the sufferers thronged to the churches and invoked the help of the Saints. The cries of those in pain could be heard in villages beyond the eighth or the tenth house and quite far off in the fields; the stench of rotten f...
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    18,20 €

  • Chapters on Mental Physiology
    Henry Holland
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    56,53 €

  • Sir Thomas Lewis
    Arthur Hollmann
    Sir Thomas Lewis has become one of the greatest cardiologists of this century. He was foremost in using the newly invented electrocardiograph to diagnose heart disease and was a pioneer of cardiac electro-physiology. This is the first biography of Sir Thomas Lewis, who became famous, whilst still quite young, for his outstanding pioneer work in electr...
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    133,76 €

  • Landmarks in Developmental Biology 1883-1924
    Klaus Sander
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    135,11 €

  • The Polish School of Philosophy of Medicine
    Ilana Löwy
    My ’discovery’ of the Polish School of philosophy of medicine stemmed from my studies in the genesis of Ludwik Fleck’s epistemology. These studies, and my interest in the scientific roots of Fleck’s epistemology were a nearly ’natural’ result of my own biography: like Fleck I had been trained, an had worked as an immunologist, and had later switched t...
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    207,64 €

  • Mother’s Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada - Over 1000 Pages with Original Illustratio
    T. J. Ritter / TJRitter
    Whilst some of the medical suggestions in this book may be helpful, other recipes contain poisonous or illegal ingredients. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! This book has great historical interest and presents the best that mothers could do for their family members when they took ill. Even if they could afford a doctor, he would probably offer the same remedies that are contained in th...
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    45,81 €

  • The Growth of Medical Knowledge
    The growth of knowledge and its effects on the practice of medicine have been issues of philosophical and ethical interest for several decades and will remain so for many years to come. The outline of the present volume was conceived nearly three years ago. In 1987, a conference on this theme was held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, on the occasion of...
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    134,32 €

  • Max Brodel
    John Cody / Ranice W. Crosby
    This lively book, with its spectacular illustrations, tells the interesting story of the life of Max Broedel, the pioneering medical illustrator and founder of the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. ...
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    139,38 €

  • Approaches to Traditional Chinese Medical Literature
    Paul U. Unschuld
    Proceedings of an International Symposium on Translation Methodologies and Terminologies ...
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    208,16 €

  • British Cardiology in the 20th Century
    Cardiology as a medical specialty originated in the 20th century and Britain played an important role in its development. British Cardiology in the 20th Century provides the first comprehensive account of the British contributions to this exciting field as well as the interesting story of many of the people and institutions who were involved. Many of ...
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    133,32 €

  • The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India
    This book analyzes the diverse facets of the social history of health and medicine in colonial India. It explores a unique set of themes that capture the diversities of India, such as public health, medical institutions, mental illness and the politics and economics of colonialism. Based on inter-disciplinary research, the contributions offer valuable insight into topics that h...
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    52,88 €

  • Integrating History and Philosophy of Science
    Introduction Part I: General Reflections., Thomas Kuhn and Interdisciplinary Conversation: Why Historians and Philosophers of Science Stopped Talking to One Another-. The History and Philosophy of Science History. - What in Truth Divides Historians and Philosophers of Science?. - History and Philosophy of Science: Recollections and Reflections. - Philosophy of Science and Its ...
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    181,90 €

  • Flies in Relation to Disease
    Edward Hindle
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    64,75 €


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