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  • Pain Chronicles
    Melanie Thernstrom
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    16,73 €

  • Histories of Disability in Latin America
    Heather Vrana
    Reframing disability, power, and identity in Latin America’s complex histories.Histories of Disability in Latin America offers a sweeping reexamination of disability’s place in the region’s past, bringing together original scholarship by historians and anthropologists to illuminate how bodies, minds, and the concept of difference have been understood across centuries of Latin A...
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    83,65 €

  • Bizarre Medicine
    Ruth Clifford Engs
    'Recommended for high-school students as an introduction to the topic, and to generalreaders interested in browsing brief but fascinating medical history.' - BooklistExplore historical and contemporary fringe remedies seen as strange, ridiculous, or even gruesome by modern Western medicine but which nevertheless played an important role in the history of medicine.From placing l...
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    52,92 €

  • On trial
    Magaly Tornay / Marietta Meier / Mario König
    The heroic story of the invention of antidepressants is a key part of the psychopharmaceutical turn. On Trial revolves around one of its pioneers, psychiatrist Roland Kuhn, who practiced in Münsterlingen, a state-run psychiatric hospital in Switzerland. Kuhn became famous for the ’discovery’ of the first antidepressant, Tofranil, and more recently notorious for his numerous tri...
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    53,61 €

  • The Charitable Imperative
    Colin Jones
    The Charitable Imperative, first published in 1989, provides an overview of the very different institutions that treated the poor in France from the seventeenth through to the early nineteenth centuries: hospitals and poorhouses, military infirmaries, reformatories for prostitutes, holding places for the insane, and so on. ...
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    56,62 €

  • Making Medical Progress
    Vanessa Rampton
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    45,61 €

  • A Journey in Surgery
    Dennis Pitt
    The pathway to a career isn’t always straightforward. Not everyone dreams of becoming a doctor, let alone a surgeon, since childhood. Author Dennis Pitt certainly didn’t. Like his grandfather and parents, Dennis had his sights set on a career in the Canadian Armed Forces. But after a few pivotal events, he applied to medical school. And once there, the path wasn’t any clearer: ...
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    24,36 €

  • Unani Medicine in the Making
    Kira Schmidt-Stiedenroth
    Unani Medicine in the Making examines the institutions and practices of Unani medicine, the Graeco-Islamic healing practice based on the humoral theory attributed to Hippocrates and officially recognized as a system of medicine in India. ...
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    82,53 €

  • Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland
    Lucy Barnhouse
    From the mid-twelfth century onwards, the development of European hospitals was shaped by their claim to the legal status of religious institutions, with its attendant privileges and responsibilities. This book compares leper hospitals (leprosaria) to relgious multipurpose institutions in medieval times under canon law. ...
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    82,70 €

  • Audible Bleeding
    York N Hsiang
    In the operating room, when there is unexpected massive bleeding like a raging inferno, the emergency responders are the vascular surgeons.But is there bleeding that even vascular surgeons fear? The answer is yes. A former trainee told me to fear two types of bleeding: if the bleeding is coming from you, and audible bleeding. Audible bleeding is when the flow or volume of blood...
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    14,34 €

  • Doctor Magnate
    Anil Pandey
    Doctor Magnate is the powerful, real-life journey of a small-town boy who dared to dream beyond his circumstances. From working in a crockery store to walking the streets of Kota with faith and hunger, from missing coaching due to financial constraints to finally wearing the white coat of his dreams, this book is a living example of how purpose, and gratitude can turn strugg...
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    6,32 €

  • Epidemics, Wars, and The Great Depression
    Ginger Floerchinger-Franks
    Public health is often forgotten until a well-publicized food poisoning or epidemic occurs. But public health services affect us every day-providing pure water, uncontaminated foods, sanitary sewage disposal, and preventing illnesses.Epidemics, Wars, and The Great Depression: Early Public Health in a Rural State traces the advancement of public health in a large, rough-and-read...
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    23,16 €

  • Opium Slavery
    Jonathan S. Jones
    During the Civil War, the utility and widespread availability of opium and morphine made opiates essential to wartime medicine. After the war ended, thousands of ailing soldiers became addicted, or “enslaved,” as nineteenth-century Americans phrased it. Veterans, their families, and communities struggled to cope with addiction’s health and social consequences. Medical and gover...
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    50,56 €

  • No Time to Breathe
    Kellen Squire
    No Time to Breathe: Voices from the COVID-19 Pandemic preserves the firsthand accounts of those who stood on the frontlines of one of the most devastating public health crises in modern history. Over a million Americans lost their lives to COVID-19, and countless others were permanently scarred-physically, emotionally, and spiritually. This volume gathers the unfiltered testimo...
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    12,80 €

  • At the Front in a World War I Field Hospital
    Leland N. Brown / Will Brown
    From his post with Field Hospital No. 33 in the U.S. Army 4th Division, 1st. Sgt. Leland Brown wrote voluminously of his experiences during World War I. His letters and diaries, collected by his son, form the basis of this personal record of a young soldier’s service on the front. Sgt. Brown was a recent graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy when he enlisted in the...
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    72,01 €

  • Observations On M. Laennec’S Method Of Forming A Diagnosis Of The Diseases Of The Chest By Means Of The Stethoscope, And Of Percussion; And Upon Some Points Of The French Practice Of Medicine
    Charles Scudamore
    A landmark rediscovery for medicine and bibliophiles: witness the moment the stethoscope transformed diagnosis.Observations On M. Laennec’s Method... by Charles Scudamore is a lucid, passionate account of early 19th-century clinical practice that demystifies Laennec’s diagnostic method for diseases of the chest. Scudamore, a leading British physician, translates French medical ...
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    14,64 €

  • Care of Foreigners
    Eram Alam
    Why did South Asian physicians become essential to US health care starting in 1965?For more than 60 years, the United States has trained fewer physicians than it needs, relying instead on the economically expedient option of soliciting immigrant physicians trained at the expense of other countries. In The Care of Foreigners, Eram Alam examines this migratory dynamic that began ...
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    83,99 €

  • Dealing Addiction
    Karen James
    Dealing Addiction: How the Canadian Government Derailed Addiction Recovery is a powerful and unflinching exploration of addiction, blending personal insight with professional expertise. Karen James, who grew up in an addicted family and later battled addiction herself, brings over twenty-seven years of experience in the addiction field to this eye-opening account.This book expo...
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    14,26 €

  • Birth Politics
    Ogechukwu Ezekwem Williams
    An exploration of the cultural, political, religious, and gender dynamics of Nigeria’s maternal health care landscape.In Birth Politics, Ogechukwu E. Williams examines the cultural, political, and medical connections that have shaped childbirth in Nigeria from the colonial era to the present. Offering a unique perspective on competing frameworks and their influence on Nigerian ...
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    83,80 €

  • Herbal Medicines of the Hedgerow and Wayside
    Marcus Harrison
    One of the problems with botanic medicine is that there are too many bibliographic echoes about what a plant species can cure. This book attempts to place each species into its own historical bubble from which a more complete picture of the medicinal qualities of a plant can be understood. It is hoped to add two further volumes to the series. ...
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    21,81 €

  • Fevered Cities
    Randall M Packard
    A global history of dengue fever and humanity’s ongoing struggle against this persistent disease.In Fevered Cities, Randall M. Packard explores the complex and evolving history of dengue fever, the world’s most widespread mosquito-borne viral disease. From its early manifestations in the eighteenth century to its current prevalence across more than one hundred countries, this b...
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    50,75 €

  • Do Less Harm
    Courtney E Thompson
    Offers reflections, provocative questions, and practical strategies for ethical, responsible approaches to health history.In Do Less Harm, editors Courtney E. Thompson and Kylie M. Smith bring together a group of leading historians and scholars to confront one of the most pressing questions in health history: How can we ethically approach stories of medicine and health without ...
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    50,68 €

  • Selling Sexual Knowledge
    Sarah Bull
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    42,86 €

  • Women in Medicine
    Anne Walling
    The history of women in medicine are celebrated in books, awards, names of buildings and organizations. In contrast, the generation who began the change are seldom memorialized; yet without the efforts of these few in what was an unambiguously a male profession, the achievements of the pioneers could easily have withered. ...
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    79,80 €

  • Robert Koch jenseits des Mythos
    Heiner Barz
    Eine neue Sicht auf den berühmten Nobelpreisträger Robert Koch!Robert Koch stand für die Weltgeltung der maßgeblich von ihm entwickelten Bakteriologie in der Medizin. Wenig bekannt ist: Koch, der als Entdecker des Tuberkulose-Erregers mit dem Nobelpreis geehrte wurde, hat kein einziges funktionierendes Heilmittel entwickelt! Im Gegenteil: Das von ihm mit großem PR-Aufwand und h...
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    33,38 €

  • Be Aware of That Nursing Home
    Richard Danford
    Find out what really goes on behind the scenes of long-term care facilities in Be Aware of That Nursing Home.Drawing from Richard Danford’s unparalleled, hands-on experience and insight into the long-term care system and its impact on consumers and families, this resource serves as an essential guide for those navigating the complexities of choosing nursing home care, emphasizi...
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    12,80 €

  • The Doctor’s Conscience
    Essie Hunter
    'In the intricate dance between medical science and human dignity, where life and death hang in the balance, a physician’s conscience becomes the ultimate compass. ''The Doctor’s Conscience: Navigating Patient Autonomy and Physician Responsibility in Modern Healthcare'' isn’t just a book; it’s a *crucial* exploration of the ethical tightrope walked daily by those entrusted with...
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    24,47 €

  • The malleable body
    Heidi Hausse
    WINNER of the 2025 European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Book AwardThis book uses amputation and prostheses to tell a new story about medicine and embodied knowledge-making in early modern Europe. It draws on the writings of craft surgeons and learned physicians to follow the heated debates that arose from changing practices of removing limbs, uncovering t...
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    44,14 €

  • Situating religion and medicine in Asia
    Michael Stanley-Baker
    This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known scholars, who bring to bear a range of methodological and geographic expertise on this topic. The book’s central question is to what extent ’religion’ and ’medicine’ have overlapped or interrelated in various Asian societies. Collec...
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    42,30 €

  • Neuroliterature 3 Biography, Semiology, Miscellany
    Andrew J Larner
    Neuroliterature 3 Biography, Semiology, Miscellany is an exploration of the interrelationships between neurology and literature and will be of interest to those who are interested in medical history evidenced by literary portrayals of neurological disorders.As in the two previous volumes of Neuroliterature, published in 2019 and 2023, this volume gathers occasional and more sub...
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    27,63 €


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