Catálogo de libros: Historia de la medicina

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  • The Cry in the Night
    Charles S Norburn
    'It was the human, the personal side of medicine that left upon me its lasting impressions.' Charles S Norburn (1890-1990), a surgeon and general practitioner who founded his own hospital, vividly retells his most memorable experiences from a long career in The Cry in the Night.  These works tell the story of medicine in the first half of the 20th century. It was an era without...
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    12,17 €

  • Extraordinary Nurses Throughout History;In Honour of Florence Nightingale
    Various
    Extraordinary Nurses Throughout History is a fascinating collection that includes insightful writings on eight notable nurses of the past and celebrates their brilliant contributions to medicine.Many incredible women made invaluable improvements to modern nursing and this collection celebrates their lives and achievements through a series of essays. This volume sheds a light on...
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    24,47 €

  • Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793-1912
    Michael Brown
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    120,11 €

  • Proving Pregnancy
    Felicity M. Turner
    Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how women—Black and white, enslaved and free—gradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals. In the first half of the nineteenth century, community-based female knowledge played a crucial role in prosecutions f...
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    127,04 €

  • Proving Pregnancy
    Felicity M. Turner
    Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how women—Black and white, enslaved and free—gradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals. In the first half of the nineteenth century, community-based female knowledge played a crucial role in prosecutions f...
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    38,19 €

  • Histories of HIV/AIDS in Western Europe
    This edited collection showcases exciting new work on lesser-known histories of HIV/AIDS, from the earliest days of the crisis to the present day. Focusing on regions of western Europe, it offers new perspectives on the development and implementation of policy, the nature of activism and expertise and which (or whose) histories are remembered. ...
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    157,26 €

  • Mekong Medicine
    Richard W. Carlson
    In 1966, Dr. Richard Carlson, two years out of medical school, embarked on a year-long tour in Vietnam to treat the many forgotten victims of the war: the civilians. During medical school he was introduced to the Los Angeles County General Hospital, the huge institution that served LA’s socially and medically deprived. When drafted, he applied to work in a Vietnamese civilia...
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    51,32 €

  • Disability and the Victorians
    Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments are addressed in a variety of contexts. ...
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    35,86 €

  • Murky waters
    Sophie Vasset
    Murky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature. It gives a wide cultural perspective of the numerous spas, springs and wells of Britain, well beyond Bath, and focuses on specific political and cultural tensions while reasserting the centrality of health in spa towns. ...
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    159,65 €

  • The Story of the Cardiff and Vale Perinatal Mental Health Team January 1998 - July 2020
    Dr Sue Smith
    This book tells the story of the Perinatal Mental Health Service that developed in the Cardiff & Vale area in South Wales, UK, from 1998 until the author’s retirement in 2020. Childbirth poses a risk to a woman’s mental health, but until quite recently there were minimal services in the UK dedicated to managing this risk. Dr Sue Smith outlines how the Cardiff community service ...
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    39,62 €

  • Vaccination Wars
    Ella Stewart-Peters
    This is the history of the grassroots anti-vaccination movement in nineteenth-century Cornwall. The book examines the lives of those who publicly opposed the procedure, the earliest phases of vaccine objection, the rise of middle class resistance and opposition societies, and the influence of propaganda for state-mandated medical practices. ...
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    126,78 €

  • The Spaces of Renaissance Anatomy Theater
    Leslie R. Malland
    The space of Renaissance anatomy is not solely in the physical theatre. As this collection demonstrates, the space of the theatre encompasses every aspect of Renaissance culture, from its education systems, art, and writing to its concepts of identity, citizenship, and the natural world. This book argues that Renaissance anatomy theatres were spaces of intersection that influen...
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    69,00 €

  • Posters, protests, and prescriptions
    The National Health Service determines how Britons receive healthcare. It is a source of national pride, a workplace and a symbol. This book explores how the cultural meanings of the NHS developed and changed since its foundation in 1948, shaped by activism, labour, consumerism, space and representation. ...
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    42,40 €

  • Madness on trial
    James E. Moran / James Moran
    This book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey. ...
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    44,22 €

  • The Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto
    Maria Ciesielska
    The most detailed study ever undertaken into the fate of more than 800 Jewish doctors who devoted themselves, in many cases until the day they died, to the care of the sick and the dying in the Warsaw Ghetto. ...
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    32,83 €

  • The Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto
    Maria Ciesielska
    The most detailed study ever undertaken into the fate of more than 800 Jewish doctors who devoted themselves, in many cases until the day they died, to the care of the sick and the dying in the Warsaw Ghetto. ...
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    185,32 €

  • Yellow Flags
    Guy Breshears
    When Covid-19 first came into the news there wasn’t much known about it. Thus governments didn’t know how to handle a situation like this. It was mostly trail and error and hope for the best and expect the worst. Even today it often feels this way.This is a look at how the Hong Kong government, by their own written records, responded to Covid-19 and the problems and trials that...
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    117,62 €

  • Yellow Flags
    Guy Breshears
    When Covid-19 first came into the news there wasn’t much known about it. Thus governments didn’t know how to handle a situation like this. It was mostly trail and error and hope for the best and expect the worst. Even today it often feels this way.This is a look at how the Hong Kong government, by their own written records, responded to Covid-19 and the problems and trials that...
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    75,25 €

  • The Evolution of Aesthetic Medicine
    Dr Patrick Treacy
    The birth and exponential growth of aesthetic medicine has been phenomenal. Recent technical innovation in aesthetic devices and products, coupled with an ever-increasing awareness of physical appearance and a rise in disposable income has boosted the demand for this field of medicine beyond all expectations. Its market size is presently valued at USD 60 billion and is anticipa...
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    35,94 €

  • The Evolution of Aesthetic Medicine
    Dr Patrick Treacy
    The birth and exponential growth of aesthetic medicine has been phenomenal. Recent technical innovation in aesthetic devices and products, coupled with an ever-increasing awareness of physical appearance and a rise in disposable income has boosted the demand for this field of medicine beyond all expectations. Its market size is presently valued at USD 60 billion and is anticipa...
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    46,43 €

  • Diagnosing history
    This collection examines the representation of medicine and medical practices in international period drama television. Featuring original chapters on period television from the UK, the US, Spain and Australia, Diagnosing history offers an accessible, global and multidisciplinary contribution to both televisual and medical history. ...
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    157,12 €

  • Bedlam in the New World
    Christina Ramos
    A rebellious Indian proclaiming noble ancestry and entitlement, a military lieutenant foreshadowing the coming of revolution, a blasphemous Creole embroiderer in possession of a bundle of sketches brimming with pornography. All shared one thing in common. During the late eighteenth century, they were deemed to be mad and forcefully admitted to the Hospital de San Hipolito in Me...
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    121,73 €

  • Bedlam in the New World
    Christina Ramos
    A rebellious Indian proclaiming noble ancestry and entitlement, a military lieutenant foreshadowing the coming of revolution, a blasphemous Creole embroiderer in possession of a bundle of sketches brimming with pornography. All shared one thing in common. During the late eighteenth century, they were deemed to be mad and forcefully admitted to the Hospital de San Hipolito in Me...
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    44,64 €

  • Vaccinated
    Paul A Offit / Paul A. Offit
    'Medical writing at its finest.'--David Oshinsky, author of Polio and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for HistoryRespected physician Paul Offit tells a fascinating story of modern medicine and pays tribute to one of the greatest lifesaving breakthroughs--vaccinations--and the medical hero responsible for developing nine of the big fourteen vaccines which have saved billions of liv...
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    15,48 €

  • Psychoanalysis and the family in twentieth-century France
    Richard Bates
    This book examines the life and career of popular French psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto (1908-88). It connects her rise to two broader histories: the dramatic growth of psychoanalysis in postwar France and the long-running debate over the family and the proper role of women in society. ...
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    144,96 €

  • From Asylum to Prison
    Anne E. Parsons / Anne EParsons
    To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die during deinstitutionalization. Instead, it returned in the modern prison industrial complex as the governme...
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    38,22 €

  • Disorder Contained
    Catherine Cox / Hilary Marland
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    120,15 €

  • Population Politics in the Tropics
    Samuël Coghe
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    120,08 €

  • Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture
    Emily Cock
    This book explores early modern British responses to nose reconstruction, and the concerns and possibilities raised by rumoured nose transplants. ...
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    43,96 €

  • Bizarre Medicine
    Ruth Engs
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    141,04 €


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