History
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
$16.99 Add to cartHenrietta Lacks a poor Southern tobacco farmer was buried in an unmarked grave sixty years ago. Yet her cells — taken without her knowledge grown in culture and bought and sold by the billions — bec… [more below]
- Author: Skloot, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 618
- Publish Date: March 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1594134324
- Language: English
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The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth
$29.00 Read moreThis gripping history shows how the electronic devices we use to access care influence the kind of care we receive.
The Doctor Who Wasn’t There traces the long arc of enthusiasm for–and skepticism of- Author: Greene, Jeremy A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 26 2022
- ISBN10: 022680089X
- Language: English
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Great Discoveries in Medicine
$16.95 Read moreSickness and health, birth and death, disease and cure: medicine and our understanding of the workings of our bodies and minds are an inextricable part of how we know who we are. With the science of h
- Author: Bynum, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0500291225
- Language: English
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A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine
$29.95 Read moreA prismatic examination of the evolution of medicine, from a trade to a science, through the exemplary lives of ten men and women.
Johns Hopkins University, one of the preeminent medical schools in th- Author: Hruban, Ralph H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1639361472
- Language: English
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Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History
$40.00 Add to cartSee the greatest medical breakthroughs come to life through superb illustrations!
From ancient herbal medicine to traditional Chinese medicine, take a visual tour throughout the history of medicine wit… [more below]- Series: DK Definitive Visual Histories
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1465453415
- Language: English
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Healing with Cannabis: The Evolution of the Endocannabinoid System and How Cannabinoids Help Relieve Ptsd, Pain, Ms, Anxiety, and More
$29.99 Read moreNamed a 2023 TOP BOOK ON CANNABIS by CBD Oracle
2020 GOLD MEDAL WINNER of the Nonfiction Book Awards (Nonfiction Authors Association) An Informative Read for an Audience Interested in Why and How Me- Author: Pellerin, Cheryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1510751866
- Language: English
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The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray’s Anatomy
$16.95 Read more“A wonderful writer, Bill Hayes tells the multi-layered story of the two extraordinary young men who produced the most famous medical text of all time – a turning point in medical history, and a conti
- Author: Hayes, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1934137219
- Language: English
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The Anatomists’ Library: The Books That Unlocked the Secrets of the Human Body
$40.00 Read moreThe Anatomist’s Library is a fascinating chronological collection of the best anatomical books from six centuries, charting the evolution of both medical knowledge and illustrated publishing.
There i- Series: Liber Historica #4
- Author: Salter, Colin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0711280746
- Language: English
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Exploring the History of Medicine: From the Ancient Physicians of Pharaoh to Genetic Engineering
$18.99 Read moreFrom surgery to vaccines, man has made great strides in the field of medicine. Quality of life has improved dramatically in the last few decades alone, and the future is bright. But students must not … [more below]
- Series: Exploring (New Leaf Press)
- Author: Tiner, John Hudson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 22 1999
- ISBN10: 0890512485
- Language: English
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Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical
$17.99 Read moreThe riveting true crime tale from beloved chef and bestselling author Anthony Bourdain, originally published in 2001, centering deadly cook Mary Mallon-otherwise known as the infamous Typhoid Mary.
B- Author: Bourdain, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1639734694
- Language: English
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Under the Knife
$29.99 Add to cartSurgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery through 28 famous operations–from Louis XIV and Einstein to JFK and Houdini.
From the story- Author: Van de Laar, Arnold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1250826012
- Language: English
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Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
$23.99 Add to cartIn Blood and Guts, veteran science writer Richard Hollingham weaves a compelling narrative from the key moments in surgical history. We have a ringside seat in the operating theater of University Coll
- Author: Hollingham, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1250057736
- Language: English
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The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
$27.95 Add to cartThe true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But when we look into the past, our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body i
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Kuriyama, Shigehisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0942299892
- Language: English
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The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC to Ad 1800
$50.00 Add to cartThe influence of Greek medical practices dating back to the fifth century B.C. has had an immeasurable impact on the development of medicine in the West over the subsequent centuries. This text is des… [more below]
- Author: Conrad, Lawrence I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 574
- Publish Date: August 17 1995
- ISBN10: 0521475643
- Language: English
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The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy
$18.00 Add to cartWHO DECIDES WHICH FACTS ARE TRUE? In 1998 Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist with a history of self-promotion, published a paper with a shocking allegation: the measles-mumps-rubella vacci… [more below]
- Author: Mnookin, Seth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 1439158657
- Language: English
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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
$49.99 Add to cartHailed as “a remarkable achievement” (Boston Globe) and as “a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking…a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book” (Los Angele
- Series: Norton History of Science #0
- Author: Porter, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 872
- Publish Date: October 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319806
- Language: English
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Death to Beauty: The Transformative History of Botox
$24.00 Read moreIn the 1970s, Dr. Alan Scott sought to selectively weaken eye muscles to treat strabismus (when one or both eyes are misaligned) without surgery. After failed attempts with other agents, Scott develop
- Author: Helveston, Eugene M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0253067804
- Language: English
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The Dao of Healing: Christian Perspectives on Chinese Medicine
$28.00 Add to cartThe last 50 years have seen the popularity of Chinese medicine grow exponentially. In China, Korea, Japan and Singapore, Chinese medicine has been incorporated into their healthcare systems to varying
- Author: Lai, Pak-Wah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 9811166633
- Language: English
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This Won’t Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women
$32.99 Add to cart‘A vital subject that needs to be discussed -KATY HESSEL, AUTHOR OF THE STORY OF ART WITHOUT MEN
‘A valuable sociological perspective on women’s bodies and health and an even more valuable (and optimi- Author: Bigg, Marieke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1529377692
- Language: English
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Medical Firsts: From Hippocrates to the Human Genome
$36.50 Add to cartAn exploration of medical discoveries-from the ancient Greeks to the present
“”Always help, or at least do no harm.”” Following this simple yet revolutionary idea, Hippocrates laid the foundation for m… [more below]- Author: Adler, Robert E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0471401757
- Language: English
