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El Libro de la Medicina (the Medicine Book)
$27.99 Read moreGrandes ideas, explicaciones sencillas
Con un lenguaje claro, sencillos esquemas e ingeniosas ilustraciones aprenda sobre los sorprendentes avances m?dicos y los descubrimientos en el libro de medicin- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0744048710
- Language: Spanish
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. … [more below]
- Author: Washington, Harriet A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 08 2008
- ISBN10: 076791547X
- Language: English
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Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America’s Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It
$17.99 Add to cartA fascinating and entertaining look at the men behind the first surgical use of anesthesia–and the price they paid for their breakthrough.
On Friday, October 16, 1846, only one operation was scheduled
- Author: Fenster, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0060933178
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Medicine
$14.95 Add to cartHere are the struggles, the strategies, the odd treatments, and the theories the limited amount of physicians used when the Revolutionary War exploded.
- Series: Illustrated Living History
- Author: Wilbur, C. Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0762701390
- Language: English
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How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine
$17.99 Add to cartSix decades ago, visionary doctors achieved the impossible: the humble kidney, acknowledged since ancient times to be as essential to life as the heart, became the first human organ to be successfully
- Author: Mueller, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1324079053
- Language: English
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Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image
$39.95 Add to cartA spectacularly illustrated history of an enigmatic surgical diagram
The Wound Man–a medical diagram depicting a figure fantastically pierced by weapons and ravaged by injuries and diseases–was repr- Author: Hartnell, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0691243484
- Language: English
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The Beating Heart: The Art and Science of Our Most Vital Organ
$45.00 Add to cartIn The Beating Heart, Robin Choudhury explores how the heart has been represented over time and across cultures. He investigates the interplay between the heart depictions of successive eras and the p
- Author: Choudhury, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1837931763
- Language: English
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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
$19.00 Add to cartIn the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 29 1994
- ISBN10: 0679753346
- Language: English
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History
$24.00 Add to cartIn this account, a journalist traces the course of the infectious disease known as yellow fever, “vividly [evoking] the Faulkner-meets-Dawn of the Dead horrors” (The New York Times Book Review) of thi… [more below]
- Author: Crosby, Molly Caldwell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0425217752
- Language: English
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Gray’s Anatomy: Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical
$29.99 Add to cartThis leather-bound version of the original 1858 first edition of Gray’s Anatomy is ideal for students and those with a keen interest in medicine.
In 1858, Dr. Henry Gray published the first edition of- Series: Leather-Bound Classics
- Author: Gray, Henry
- Binding: Leather
- Page Count: 936
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1667204734
- Language: English
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The Apothecary’s Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
$28.95 Add to cart“A lively medical, scientific, and economic history.”–Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
“A timely reminder that the current greed-based healthcare system
Best Nonfiction Books of 2024, Kirkus Reviews- Author: Gevirtz, Karen Bloom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0520409914
- Language: English
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One in a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine
$17.99 Add to cart“A riveting scientific detective story” (The Washington Post) by two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who chronicle a young Wisconsin boy with a never-before-seen disease and the doctors who save hi… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1451661339
- Language: English
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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
$30.00 Add to cartThe Speckled Monster tells the dramatic story of two parents who dared to fight back against smallpox. After barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, they flouted eighteenth-century medicine… [more below]
- Author: Carrell, Jennifer Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 27 2004
- ISBN10: 0452285070
- Language: English
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The History of Medicine in Twelve Objects
$26.00 Read moreDiscover the fascinating history of medicine from its primitive beginnings to the lifesaving technologies of today.
Award-winning author Dr Carol Cooper takes you on a journey through the 12 objects t- Author: Cooper, Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0711294623
- Language: English
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The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs
$32.95 Add to cartHow the very fact of being human makes us vulnerable to pandemics–and gives us the power to save ourselves.
The COVID-19 pandemic won’t be our last–because what makes us vulnerable to pandemics also- Author: Sholts, Sabrina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 026204885X
- Language: English
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A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease
$30.00 Add to cartInflammation is the body’s ancestral response to its greatest threats, the first line of defense it deploys against injury and foreign pathogens. But as the threats we face have evolved, new science i
- Author: Ravella, Shilpa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0393541908
- Language: English
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
$16.95 Add to cartElizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of “ordinary” womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medici
- Author: Nimura, Janice P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020202
- Language: English
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The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration
$39.95 Add to cartBizarre and captivating images, including close-up details and revealing cross-sections, make all too clear the fascinations of both doctors and artists of the time
The Sick Rose is a visual tour throu… [more below]
- Author: Barnett, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 31 2014
- ISBN10: 1938922409
- Language: English
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The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost–And Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
$30.00 Add to cartA remarkable story of the scientists behind a long-forgotten and life-saving cure: the healing viruses that can conquer antibiotic resistant bacterial infections
First discovered in 1917, bacteriophag- Author: Zeldovich, Lina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1250283388
- Language: English
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Crucial Interventions: An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles & Practice of Nineteenth-Century Surgery
$39.95 Add to cartThe nineteenth century saw major advances in the practice of surgery. In 1750, the anatomist John Hunter described it as “a humiliating spectacle of the futility of science”; yet, over the next 150 ye… [more below]
- Author: Barnett, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 23 2015
- ISBN10: 0500518106
- Language: English
