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Paperback. Public health has made our lives safer - but it often works behind the scenes, without our knowledge, that is, 'while we are sleeping'. This book illuminates how public health works with more than sixty success stories drawn from the area of injury and violence prevention. Num Pages: 248 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: JFFE; MBN; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520258464
- ISBN
- 9780520258464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.81
€ 36.99
€ 26.81
Paperback. With the Salk vaccine's protection from polio also came a story line: there were heroic researchers who would use science to protect us from epidemics and perhaps even eradicate disease. This book, which delves into our faith in vaccines, examines four cases that span the twentieth century - diphtheria, rubella, pertussis, and HIV/AIDS. Num Pages: 224 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826515919
- ISBN
- 9780826515919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.74
€ 51.74
Paperback. Drawing from a wide range of scholarly research, archival records, and interviews, The Estrogen Elixir provides valuable historical context for one of the most pressing debates in contemporary medicine. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBX; VFDW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894862
- ISBN
- 9780801894862
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.89
€ 40.89
paperback. Num Pages: 265 pages, 52 black & white illustrations, 48 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer Nature United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781493948161
- ISBN
- 9781493948161
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.91
€ 63.91
Hardback. Drawing on a diverse range of sources-including patient testimonies; the writings of physicians, historians, and poets; and official publications of the Roman state-Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire is a groundbreaking history of the culture of classical medicine. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4, 4 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBLA1; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421416281
- ISBN
- 9781421416281
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.70€ 54.59
€ 59.70
€ 54.59
Die Erste Deutsche Frauenarztin Lebenserinnerungen. Im Kampf Um Den Ar...
Heusler-Edenhuizen, Hermine. Ed(S): Prahm, He...
Paperback / so. Editor(s): Prahm, Heyo. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: BG; HB; JF; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783322925640
- ISBN
- 9783322925640
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 90.10
€ 90.10
Paperback. A history of the medical discovery of disease transmission by insects, which surveys a century of research into ways of eradicating the diseases by exterminating the vectors. It examines how DDT and other insecticides initially achieved great improvements, but later faced serious setbacks. Num Pages: 361 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBN; MBX; MMFP; MMRT; PDX; PSVT7; TBX; TVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993
- Number of pages
- 361
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783540554578
- ISBN
- 9783540554578
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 123.10
€ 123.10
Paperback. This book uses 103 illustrations from the 16th century onward and the history of obstetrical and embryological knowledge to argue that modes of visualizing science have profoundly determined "fetal politics" and the contemporary abortion debates. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 176 pages, 103 half-tones. BIC Classification: JFMA; JFSJ1; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 215.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804726481
- ISBN
- 9780804726481
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.80
€ 29.99
€ 26.80
Paperback / so. Series: Fachbucher Fur Arzte (Closed). Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: MBX; MJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1926
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642903182
- ISBN
- 9783642903182
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.74
€ 70.74
hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 238 x 25. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226280394
- ISBN
- 9780226280394
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.73
€ 40.99
€ 31.73
Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: MBX; MJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 210 x 10. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1890
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783662321539
- ISBN
- 9783662321539
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.62
€ 69.62
Hardback. This text maps perceptions of illness in medical texts from their 19th century focus on illness located in a biological body through to their "discovery" of the psycho-social patient of the late 20th century. In this way, a history of identity, both physical and psychological, is revealed. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HP; JFCX; JFFH; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333968925
- ISBN
- 9780333968925
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.32
€ 122.32
Hardcover. Series: Acta Historica Scientiarum Naturalum et Medicinalium. Num Pages: 519 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 3JB; BGH; HP; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 251 x 183 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1226.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 519
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772898179
- ISBN
- 9788772898179
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.45€ 64.41
€ 83.45
€ 64.41
Paperback. The environment is currently a matter of international public and academic concern, but is often considered separately from health issues. This book brings together work from environmental and health historians to conceptualise the connection between environment and health at different times and in different geographical locations. Editor(s): Berridge, Virginia; Gorsky, Martin. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; HBTQ; MBX; PDX; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349313228
- ISBN
- 9781349313228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.51
€ 64.51
Paperback. This unique book presents an overview of believers and disbelievers in a cerebral seat of human morality. With depth and clarity, the book presents their positions and arguments, and offers an explanation for these attempts to localise our moral sense. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMM; MBX; PDA; PDX; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400791268
- ISBN
- 9789400791268
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 123.07
€ 123.07
Hardback. Walter Charleton has been depicted as a natural philosopher whose intellectual career mirrored the intellectual ferment of the 'scientific revolution'. Examining three of his vernacular medical texts, this work considers his thoughts on anatomy, physiology and the methods by which he sought to understand the invisible processes of the body. Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; MBX. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 609.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402033773
- ISBN
- 9781402033773
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 191.82
€ 191.82
Paperback. Editor(s): Fischer, Tobias; Langanke, Martin; Marschall, Paul; Michl, Susanne. Series: Advances in Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine. Num Pages: 339 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 18 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; MBX; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 339
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319346984
- ISBN
- 9783319346984
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 186.35
€ 186.35
Hardcover. We live in an age of obsession. But obsession is not only a phenomenon of modern existence: it is a medical category. Beginning with the roots of the disease in demonic possession and its secular successors, this work traces the evolution of obsessive behavior from a social and religious fact of life into a medical and psychiatric problem. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; MBX; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 169 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226137827
- ISBN
- 9780226137827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 40.95
€ 52.99
€ 40.95
Hardback. Shows how an epistemological focus can add depth to the history of medicine and complexity to accounts of scientific discovery Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Series: Forms of Living. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: MBX; MJC; MMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823242498
- ISBN
- 9780823242498
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.35
€ 111.35
hardcover. This book provides a panoramic overview of the history of malaria from Paleolithic times up to the present. Series: Studies in Environment and History. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2 b/w illus. 8 maps. BIC Classification: MBX; MJCJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 170 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521854184
- ISBN
- 9780521854184
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.61
€ 54.61
Hardcover. Num Pages: 537 pages, colour tables & charts. BIC Classification: 1DN; HBJD; HBLL; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 169 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1162.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 537
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763507707
- ISBN
- 9788763507707
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.81€ 60.76
€ 78.81
€ 60.76
Hardcover. Obesity among American children has reached epidemic proportions. Laura Dawes traces changes in diagnosis, treatment, and popular conceptions of the most serious health problem facing American children today, and makes the case that understanding the cultural history of a disease is critical to developing effective public health policy. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; MBX; MJW; MMZF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674281448
- ISBN
- 9780674281448
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.58€ 51.03
€ 55.58
€ 51.03
Hardback. Was Thomas Hardy clinically depressed or just syphilitic? Was Egdon Heath imbued with melancholic vapours? And does this explain why many of his characters suffered from depression, took their own lives or developed homicidal tendencies? This book by a rural GP explores these and many other medical issues in Hardy's life and works. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; MBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230203174
- ISBN
- 9780230203174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.63
€ 64.63
Paperback. During Kaiser Wilhelm II's reign, nature gained a role of central importance to the German national experience. Using interpretive methods drawn from the history of science and science studies, the author shows how popular health and hygiene movements shaped German ideas about progress and modernity, nature, health, and the body. Num Pages: 235 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; MBP; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875807041
- ISBN
- 9780875807041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.75
€ 45.99
€ 40.75