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The Medicine Book
$27.99 Add to cartLearn about astonishing medical breakthroughs and discoveries in The Medicine Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0744028361
- Language: English
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The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAgainst the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times, through the scholastic medieval traditio… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #191
- Author: Bynum, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 24 2008
- ISBN10: 019921543X
- Language: English
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The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine: A New Translation of the Neijing Suwen with Commentary
$24.95 Add to cartThe Neijing is one of the most important classics of Taoism, as well as the highest authority on traditional Chinese medicine. Its authorship is attributed to the great Huang Di, the Yellow Emperor, w… [more below]
- Author: Ni, Maoshing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 10 1995
- ISBN10: 1570620806
- Language: English
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Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
$20.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1501163752
- Language: English
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A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease
$18.99 Read moreInflammation 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074329
- Language: English
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Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine
$24.00 Add to cart“Comprehensive, encyclopedic, and lucid, this book is a must for all practitioners of the healing arts who want to broaden their understanding. Readers interested in the role of herbs and foods in hea… [more below]
- Author: Beinfield, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 30 1992
- ISBN10: 345379748
- Language: English
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
$30.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “The story of modern medicine and bioethics–and, indeed, race relations–is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”–Entertainment Weekly
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM- Author: Skloot, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1400052173
- Language: English
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La ArmonÃa de Las Células: Una Exploración de la Medicina Y del Nuevo Ser Humano / The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
$30.95 Read more«En un relato a la vez l?rico y amplio, Mukherjee nos lleva a trav?s de una historia de la comprensi?n humana: desde el descubrimiento en el siglo XVII de que estamos formados por c?lulas hasta … [more below]
- Author: Mukherjee, Siddhartha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 8419399469
- Language: Spanish
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
$19.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestseller
“Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.”–Bill Gates “Monumental… an authoritative and disturbing- Author: Barry, John M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 1, 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036491
- Language: English
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Dr. Mary’s Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked t
$19.95 Add to cartGet ready for the “Hottest cold case in America ” This updated paperback contains the same content as the 2014 hard cover edition which has 25 additional pages of revelations added since the original … [more below]
- Author: Haslam, Edward T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1634240308
- Language: English
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
$27.00 Add to cartWhat won’t we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth?
Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as- Author: Kang, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 17, 2017
- ISBN10: 0761189815
- Language: English
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How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine
$30.00 Read moreSix 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 0393866513
- Language: English
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Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America
$29.95 Add to cartExplores the historical roots of controversies over abortion, fetal personhood, miscarriage, and maternal mortality.
On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision, assertin
- Author: Crowther, Kathleen M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1421447630
- Language: English
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The Gene: An Intimate History
$22.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 02, 2017
- ISBN10: 147673352X
- Language: English
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
$32.50 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize!
Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah D- Author: Mukherjee, Siddhartha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982117354
- Language: English
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
$22.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize!
Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah D- Author: Mukherjee, Siddhartha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1982117362
- Language: English
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Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
$43.43 Add to cartThe accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists perfo
- Author: Owens, Deirdre Cooper
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: July 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0820354759
- Language: English
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic–And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
$18.00 Add to cartA National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year from the author of Extra Life
“By turns a medical thriller, detective story, and paean to city- Author: Johnson, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 02 2007
- ISBN10: 1594482691
- Language: English
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
$18.99 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “The story of modern medicine and bioethics–and, indeed, race relations–is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”–Entertainment Weekly
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM- Author: Skloot, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1400052181
- Language: English
