History
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Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
$32.00 Add to cartFrom an eminent surgeon and historian comes the “by turns fascinating and ghastly” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) story of surgery’s development–from the Stone Age to the present d… [more below]
- Author: Rutkow, Ira
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1501163744
- Language: English
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
$18.00 Add to cartThe most fatal virus known to science, rabies-a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans-kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. In this c… [more below]
- Author: Wasik, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 25 2013
- ISBN10: 0143123572
- Language: English
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Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science
$35.00 Add to cartWinner, 2022 PSA Women’s Caucus Prize in Feminist Philosophy of Science Award
The public has voiced concern over the adverse effects of vaccines from the moment Dr. Edward Jenner introduced the first- Series: Science, Values, and the Public
- Author: Goldenberg, Maya J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0822966905
- Language: English
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Great Feuds in Medicine: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever
$19.95 Add to cartAn exciting, well-researched work, which should appeal to anyone with an interest in the nature and progress of the human race.
—American ScientistThe cataclysmic clash of medical ideas and personalit
- Author: Hellman, Hal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: February 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0471208337
- Language: English
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The Origins of AIDS
$42.43 Add to cartIt is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital in Zai… [more below]
- Author: P?pin, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1108720390
- Language: English
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Doctors at War: Life and Death in a Field Hospital
$21.95 Add to cartDoctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Mark de Rond tells of the highs and lows of surgical life in hard-h
- Series: Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
- Author: de Rond, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1501705482
- Language: English
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Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination and terrify the world. Christian W. McMillen provide… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: McMillen, Christian W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199340072
- Language: English
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The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy: The Revolutionary 1805 Classic
$16.95 Read more“A very interesting glimpse at everyday cooking in the daily life of 18th-19th century England, with many helpful tips, tricks, and recipes (for the day). The language is enjoyable and the information
- Author: Glasse, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 19 2015
- ISBN10: 0486795764
- Language: English
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The Cry in the Night: Dramas From the Life of a Doctor
$15.95 Add to cart“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 ret
- Author: Norburn, Charles S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 9798218052577
- Language: English
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Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
$20.00 Add to cartIt is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America’s most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially
- Author: Cooper, Thea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0312611749
- Language: English
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The Cambridge History of Medicine
$37.00 Add to cartThe Cambridge History of Medicine, first published in 2006, surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, t… [more below]
- Author: Porter, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0521682894
- Language: English
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The Normal and the Pathological
$35.00 Add to cartThe Normal and the Pathological is one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in the last half century. It takes as its starting point the sudden appearance of biology as a science in
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Canguilhem, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 16 1991
- ISBN10: 0942299590
- Language: English
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Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
$15.99 Add to cartThe real story of AIDS–how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million people–is very different from what most of us think we know. Recent
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0393350843
- Language: English
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Smallpox: The Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer
$19.95 Add to cartWith a New Introduction by Phillip K. Peterson, M.D., author of Microbes: The Life-Changing Story of Germs
For more than 3000 years, hundreds of millions of people have died or been left permanently sc
- Author: Henderson, D. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1633887014
- Language: English
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Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
$21.99 Add to cartScurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. The threat of the disease kept ships close to home and doomed those vessels that ventur
- Author: Brown, Stephen R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0312313926
- Language: English
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Placebos
$16.95 Read moreThe biological power of the placebo effect.
The power of placebos to ameliorate symptoms has been with us for centuries. Western medicine today is finding it increasingly difficult to ignore the effic- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Hall, Kathryn T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0262544253
- Language: English
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Vaccinated: From Cowpox to Mrna, the Remarkable Story of Vaccines
$18.99 Add to cart“Medical writing at its finest.”–David Oshinsky, author of Polio and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History
Respected physician Paul Offit tells a fascinating story of modern medicine and pays tribu
- Author: Offit, Paul A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0063157616
- Language: English
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Polio: An American Story
$20.99 Add to cartHere David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines–and beyond. Drawing … [more below]
- Author: Oshinsky, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0195307143
- Language: English
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The Gene: An Intimate History
$35.00 Add to cartThe #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies–a fascinating history
The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History- Author: Mukherjee, Siddhartha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 17 2016
- ISBN10: 1476733503
- Language: English
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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
$20.00 Add to cart“Delightfully horrifying.”–Popular Science
This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping weirdn- Author: Morris, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1524743704
- Language: English
