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Paperback. Series: Philosophy and Medicine. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JMP; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2005
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
SKU
V9789048168415
ISBN
9789048168415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 122.35

Hardback. Num Pages: 211 pages, 31 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, 4 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: MBX; MMZ; PNV; TDCW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319428833
ISBN
9783319428833
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.02

Hardback. Series: Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJC; MBX; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 227 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780801441950
ISBN
9780801441950
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.93

The collections she has selected include essays on general medical topics addressed to colleagues or disciples, some advice for individual patients (usually written at the request of the patient's doctor), and a strong dose of controversy. Series: Singleton Center Books in Premodern Europe. Num Pages: 176 pages, 4, 4 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421407494
ISBN
9781421407494
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.02

Paperback. This is a detailed and comprehensive reference text for people wanting extensive background knowledge of complementary therapies and the background to their development. It also includes interesting sections on the complex relationship between eastern and western medicine; and how both have developed and progressed within the very recent past. Num Pages: 320 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: MBX; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Pub
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853026409
ISBN
9781853026409
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 43.61

Hardcover. Created by the legendary Dr. Morris F. Collen, now in his nineties, this book maps the journey from the first, basic medical informatics databases to the hugely complex information systems which are now such a fixture in clinics and hospitals around the world. Series: Health Informatics. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJP; MBPM; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer
Edition
2012th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857299611
ISBN
9780857299611
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.74

Num Pages: 166 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: MBX; MJCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 150 x 225 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
166
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611223057
ISBN
9781611223057
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.42
€ 75.16

Paperback. This book explores the social origins of the Western preoccupation with health and environmental hazards. It looks at the rise of the dichotomy between the vulnerable 'in' and the threatening 'out' by examining the pathologies associated with weather, domestic space, ventilation, clothing, and travel in Britain at the turn of the 19th century. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 239 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBTB; MBX; PDZ; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 309.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349289349
ISBN
9781349289349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Hardcover. British Airs and the Making of Environmental Medicine. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. 240 pages, Illustrations. This book explores the social origins of the Western preoccupation with health and environmental hazards. It looks at the rise of the dichotomy between the vulnerable 'in' and the threatening 'out' by examining the pathologies associated with weather, domestic space, ventilation, clothing, and travel in Britain at the turn of the 19th century. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBTB; MBX; MMR. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 16. Weight: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230104754
ISBN
9780230104754
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.18

Hardback. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781526113474
ISBN
9781526113474
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.93
€ 93.00

Hardcover. This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. This book takes the first in-depth look at how people thought about, diagnosed and treated cancer in the early modern period, examining imaginative literature, medical texts and personal accounts. Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137487520
ISBN
9781137487520
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.64

paperback. This book analyzes literary representations to explain how consumption, a killer disease, came to be the glamorous illnesss of the Romantic era. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBF; HBJD; JFC; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349286119
ISBN
9781349286119
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 132.21

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

€ 43.99
€ 43.98

Paperback. This text traces the history of contraception and abortifacients from ancient Egypt to the 17th century, and discusses the scientific merit of the ancient remedies and why this knowledge about fertility control was gradually lost over the course of the Middle Ages. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 tables, 6 halftones, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFMA; JHBD; MBNH4; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674168763
ISBN
9780674168763
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 32.32

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; HBJK; MBPM; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780897339254
ISBN
9780897339254
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.25

Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBP; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780897336208
ISBN
9780897336208
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 27.89

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137264282
ISBN
9781137264282
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Hardback. By 1940, Acker concludes, a particular configuration of ideas about opiate addiction was firmly in place and remained essentially stable until the enormous demographic changes in drug use of the 1960s and 1970s prompted changes in the understanding of addiction-and in public policy. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFFH1; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801867989
ISBN
9780801867989
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.38
€ 50.73

Hardcover. Editor(s): Usborne, Cornelie; Blecourt, Willem de. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; HBTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403915696
ISBN
9781403915696
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ; JHBK; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349431076
ISBN
9781349431076
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.46

Paperback. Exploring aspects of Irish medical history, from the nature and proposed remedies for various illnesses in eighteenth century Ireland, to the treatment of influenza in twentieth-century Ireland, this book shows how the cultures of medical care evolved over three centuries. Editor(s): Cox, C.; Luddy, Maria. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349358540
ISBN
9781349358540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.79

Hardcover. Exploring aspects of Irish medical history, from the nature and proposed remedies for various illnesses in eighteenth century Ireland, to the treatment of influenza in twentieth-century Ireland, this book shows how the cultures of medical care evolved over three centuries. Editor(s): Luddy, Maria; Cox, Catherine. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; MBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 199 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230535862
ISBN
9780230535862
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.43

paperback. Combines the histories of empire, leisure, tourism, culture, and medicine to explain how therapeutic spas for colonists facilitated French imperialism between 1830 and 1962. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 photos, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBTB; MBX; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822338222
ISBN
9780822338222
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 20 images. BIC Classification: BM; HBJM; MBX; MJCJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Monash University Publishing Australia
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781922235848
ISBN
9781922235848
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.92

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