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History of medicine

Paperback. An annotated English translation of the autobiography of Polish microbiologist Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), with a focus on his contributions to international public health. Editor(s): Balinska, Marta A.; Schneider, William H. Translator(s): Balinska, Marta A. Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History. Num Pages: 508 pages, 17, 15 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white line drawings, 15 black and white, 2. BIC Classification: MBX; PSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 224 x 30. Weight in Grams: 890.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
508
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580464598
ISBN
9781580464598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.86

Hardcover. Reveals the history of the individuals who worked to make psychiatry more available to Harlem's black community in the early Civil Rights Era. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJ; JFSL3; MBX; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 582.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580464925
ISBN
9781580464925
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.32

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580464963
ISBN
9781580464963
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.48

Hardcover. An engaging and surprising history of surgeries on the clitoris, revealing what the therapeutic use of female circumcision and clitoridectomy tells us about American medical ideas concerning the female body and female sexuality. Num Pages: 296 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; MBX; MJT; MN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580464987
ISBN
9781580464987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.35

Hardcover. Explores the history of vaccine development and the rise of antivaccination societies in late-nineteenth-century America. Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History. Num Pages: 352 pages, 52 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBN; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580465373
ISBN
9781580465373
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.96

Hardcover. How did technicians, epidemics, zoos, German exiles, methamphetamine, disgruntled technicians, modern bureaucracy, museums, and whipping cream shape the emergence of modern neuroscience? Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History. Num Pages: 316 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMM; MBX; MJN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580465953
ISBN
9781580465953
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.66

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843838753
ISBN
9781843838753
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.15

Hardcover. Contagion and Enclaves studies the social history of medicine within two intersecting enclaves in colonial India; the hill station of Darjeeling which incorporated the sanitarian and racial norms of the British Raj; and in the adjacent tea plantations of North Bengal, which produced tea for the global market. Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 219 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1QDB; HBTQ; MBX; MMRT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318290
ISBN
9781846318290
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.03

Paperback. A guide to personal papers in Rhodes House Library, Oxford. Editor(s): Tough, Alistair G. Num Pages: 83 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 160. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The Bodleian Library
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851240517
ISBN
9781851240517
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.32

Paperback. This is a study based on research into the records of the Nightingale Fund and how it was used to finance various experiments in nursing and midwifery training in the nineteenth century. It traces the development of nurse training and discusses the problems that beset a fledgling profession. Num Pages: 270 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: MBX; MQC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861560445
ISBN
9781861560445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.03

Paperback. In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. Why does circumcision usually mean circumcision of infants? Why does the pressure for health circumcision continue? This book offers essential background to the debates about the medical, ethical, and social aspects of circumcision. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTB; JHBT; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226101101
ISBN
9780226101101
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.76

Paperback. With US soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple conflicts, Americans will be forced for the foreseeable future to come to terms with those permanently disabled in battle. This book explains how, before entering World War I, the United States sought a way to avoid the enormous cost of providing injured soldiers with pensions. Num Pages: 300 pages, 20 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBWN; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226143354
ISBN
9780226143354
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 26.65

Paperback. Num Pages: 261 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MBX; MJCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226452852
ISBN
9780226452852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.92

Paperback. A century of developing health culture in McLean County, Illinois Num Pages: 272 pages, 18 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JH; 3JJ; MBP; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252075544
ISBN
9780252075544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.52

Paperback. Examines the textured interrelations between medical writing about generation and childbirth - what we now call reproduction - and emerging notions of selfhood in early modern England. This book looks at the particular assumptions about bodies and selves that medical language inevitably enfolds. Series: In Vivo. Num Pages: 259 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: MBX; MFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 182 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780295986418
ISBN
9780295986418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.87

Hardback. Describes the world of mental patients and their doctors in the first half of the twentieth century. This book shows how well-intentioned physicians could rationalize and regard as therapeutic treatments that often had dreadful consequences, and how much the social and cultural world is inscribed within the practice of biological psychiatry. Series: Medicine and Society S. Num Pages: 262 pages, 18. BIC Classification: 3JJ; MBN; MBX; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520205475
ISBN
9780520205475
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.69
€ 51.21

Paperback. Examining the industry of reproductive technology from the perspective of the consumer, this book scrutinizes the staggering array of medical options available to women and men with fertility problems and assesses the toll - both financial and emotional - that the quest for a biological child often exacts from would-be parents. Num Pages: 330 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; JHM; MBX; MFKC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520224315
ISBN
9780520224315
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.87

Hardcover. This text calls attention to the importance of technology assessment in medicine - the evaluation of the effects of medical treatments - with particular reference to medical innovations. It also identifies important policy implications that can be drawn from the study of successful innovations. Editor(s): Frazier, Howard S.; Mosteller, Frederick. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 computer line illustrations. BIC Classification: MBGR; MBX; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674563629
ISBN
9780674563629
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.82
€ 83.40

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 386 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
Rev ed
Number of pages
386
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691606040
ISBN
9780691606040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.22
€ 54.52

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 474 pages, 46 halftones 12 line illus. 23 tables. BIC Classification: BGT; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
474
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691606965
ISBN
9780691606965
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 92.88
€ 71.55

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 348 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691612607
ISBN
9780691612607
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.96
€ 52.86

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 398 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; MBPC; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
398
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691614748
ISBN
9780691614748
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.90
€ 46.24

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 474 pages, 46 halftones 12 line illus. 23 tables. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; BGT; MBG; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 828.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
474
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691635644
ISBN
9780691635644
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 282.32

Hardback. Series: Collection on Technology and Work. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1. BIC Classification: MBX; MNB; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801441592
ISBN
9780801441592
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.52

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