Catálogo de libros: Historia de la medicina

5651 Catálogo de libros: Historia de la medicina

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  • Medical History of Mankind
    Andrey Nabokov
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    Disponible

    15,61 €

  • Medical History of Mankind
    Andrey Nabokov
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    Disponible

    31,86 €

  • Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain
    Jonathan Toms
    What is self-government? How has it been related to mental health? In recent years Foucauldian analyses of the history of psychiatry have dominated the answers to these questions. Through an examination of the twentieth-century mental hygiene movement in Britain that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary literature, this book provides a counter-argument. ...
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    65,01 €

  • The Care of Older People
    Mayumi Hayashi
    Across the globe, populations are getting older. Hayashi surveys the development of residential care in Britain and Japan from the 1920s onwards, using regional case studies, and taking into account the influence of traditions and cultural norms. ...
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    267,76 €

  • Spare Parts
    Renee C. Fox
    Spare Parts examines major developments in the field of organ replacement that occurred in the United States over the course of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s ...
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    78,45 €

  • Framing the moron
    Gerald O’Brien
    Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic movement during the early twentieth century, which led to tens of thousands of innocent people being involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated. ...
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    157,50 €

  • Smallpox
    J. E. Gessler / J.E. Gessler / S.L. Kotar
    Scientifically known as Variola major, the deadliest form of smallpox has plagued mankind since 'time immemorial.' This text chronicles the worldwide effects of the killer disease, with particular emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries, including the devastations of the 'speckled disease' during great armed conflicts. Specific attention is paid to the development and utiliz...
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    73,84 €

  • Medieval Medicine
    Luke DeMaitre
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    Disponible

    94,95 €

  • The Life of Edward Jenner
    F. Dawtry Drewitt / FDawtry Drewitt
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    Disponible

    48,52 €

  • The Physician in English History
    Norman Moore
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    Disponible

    27,16 €

  • Notes on Hospitals
    Florence Nightingale
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    43,80 €

  • The Politics of Reproduction in Ottoman Society, 1838-1900
    Gülhan Balsoy
    Epidemics, migration and territorial losses led to population decline in early nineteenth-century Turkey. In response, Ottoman elites began a programme of population growth. Balsoy uses previously untapped archival sources to examine these developments, arguing that these changes caused reproduction to become a political experience. ...
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    268,30 €

  • A Medical History of Skin
    Kevin Patrick Siena
    Diseases affecting the skin have tended to provoke a response of particular horror in society. This collection of essays uses case studies to chart the medical history of skin from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. ...
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    254,30 €

  • Greek and Roman Medicine
    Helen King
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    38,34 €

  • Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine
    Martin Saxer
    Within a mere decade, hospital pharmacies throughout the Tibetan areas of the People's Republic of China have been converted into pharmaceutical companies. Confronted with the logic of capital and profit, these companies now produce commodities for a nationwide market. While these developments are depicted as a big success in China, they have also been met with harsh criticis...
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    163,27 €

  • Greek Medicine from the Heroic to the Hellenistic Age
    James Longrigg
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    51,05 €

  • Ulfaz Udwiyeh, or the Materia Medica
    Francis Gladwin
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    49,04 €

  • Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement
    Kate Davies
    This is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the Environmental Health Movement, which unlike many parts of the environmental movement, focuses on ways toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents in the environmental effect human health and well-being. ...
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    68,08 €

  • Catching Cancer
    Claudia Cornwall
    The idea that you can “catch” cancer is radical, and yet several renowned scientists have shown that it is possible to do just that. Through interviews and an exploration of the science behind new discoveries, Claudia Cornwall reveals the breakthroughs that set us on a course of better understanding how cancer develops and how we might prevent it. ...
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    63,12 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Children in Practice
    John Peterson
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    49,49 €

  • 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 €


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