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  • Our Present Complaint

    American Medicine, Then and Now

    The renowned medical historian examines the current tensions in American healthcare in this "cogently written and well documented" book ( Choice).In Our Present Complaint, Charles E. Rosenberg examines today's dilemmas in American medicine within their historical and social contexts. He begins with an insightful look at the fundamental characteristics of medicine: how we think about disease, how ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cholera Years

    The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866

    A history of the nineteenth-century epidemic and a "skillful, absorbing presentation of the background and the effects of this dread disease" ( The New York Times).Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. In ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Genes, Medicine, Moods

    A Memoir of Success and Struggle

    One can have a successful professional career, and a meaningful, personal life while struggling all the while with a common mental illness: bipolar disorder. This memoir describes the author's widely recognized research in the field of inherited metabolic disorders in children, his pivotal role as Dean of the Yale University School of Medicine and as Chief Scientific Officer of the Bristol-Myers ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Diagnostic Pathology: Bone

    Series series Diagnostic Pathology
    This expert volume in the Diagnostic Pathology series is an excellent point-of-care resource for practitioners at all levels of experience and training. Covering all areas of bone pathology, it incorporates the most recent clinical, pathological, and molecular knowledge in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of all key issues relevant to today's practice. Richly illustrated and easy to ... Read more

    $242.09 USD

  • Sarcomas

    Evidence-based Diagnosis and Management

    Sarcomas: Evidence-Based Diagnosisand Management is the most comprehensive clinical reference on sarcomas available to oncologists and trainees. Presenting a compilation of the current knowledge of specific soft tissue and bone sarcomas, this accessible resource on diagnosis and management is the most practical in the market. Led by the world’s foremost sarcomas experts in medical oncology, ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America’s Hospital System

    Finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in History.“[A] splendid history of the hospital in America... What makes this an important book is that Mr. Rosenberg has managed to tell the story of the hospital as a microcosm of American society... It is remarkable that an institution so central to our society, and to our medical system as the hospital has been for the last 100 years, has had to wait so ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Microorganisms to Combat Pollution

    Edited by E. Rosenberg ...
    This volume contains material first presented at an international workshop on the 'Use of Microorganisms to Combat Pollution', held in Israel, May 10--18, 1992. The workshop was sponsored by the Bat-Sheva de Rothschild Foundation for the Advancement of Science and included microbiologists, biochemists and geneticists from universities, environmental agencies and the military. Each of the ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Chronic Renal Disease

    Chronic Renal Disease comprehensively investigates the physiology, pathophysiology, treatment, and management of chronic kidney disease (CKD). This translational reference takes an in-depth look at CKD while excluding coverage of dialysis or transplantation, which are both well detailed in other textbooks and references. Chapters in the basic science sections are devoted to the scientific ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

  • A Short History of Medicine

    A bestselling history of medicine, enriched with a new foreword, concluding essay, and bibliographic essay.Erwin H. Ackerknecht’s A Short History of Medicine is a concise narrative, long appreciated by students in the history of medicine, medical students, historians, and medical professionals as well as all those seeking to understand the history of medicine.Covering the broad sweep of ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Human Genes and Genomes

    Science, Health, Society

    In the nearly 60 years since Watson and Crick proposed the double helical structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, waves of discoveries have made genetics the most thrilling field in the sciences. The study of genes and genomics today explores all aspects of the life with relevance in the lab, in the doctor's office, in the courtroom and even in social relationships. In this helpful guidebook, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity

    Essays on the History of Psychiatry

    by Andrew Scull ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    This compelling book brings together many of the major papers published by Andrew Scull in the history of psychiatry over the past decade and a half.Examining some of the major substantive debates in the field from the eighteenth century to the present, the historiographic essays provide a critical perspective on such major figures as Michel Foucault, Roy Porter and Edward Shorter.Chapters on ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Medical Apartheid

    The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book."[Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD