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  • Childbed Fever

    A Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweis

    by K. Codell Carter, Barbara R. Carter ...
    The life and work of Ignaz Semmelweis is among the most engaging and moving stories in the history of science. Childbed Fever makes the Semmelweis story available to a general audience, while placing his life, and his discovery, in the context of his times. In 1846 Vienna, as what would now be called a head resident of obstetrics, Semmelweis confronted the terrible reality of childbed fever, which ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease

    Case Histories

    by K. Codell Carter ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    Much of contemporary medical theory and practice focuses on the identification of specific causes of disease. However, this has not always been the case: until the early nineteenth century physicians thought of diseases in quite different terms. The modern quest for causes of disease can be seen as a single Lakatosian research programme. One can track the rise and elaboration of this programme by ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Decline of Therapeutic Bloodletting and the Collapse of Traditional Medicine

    by K. Codell Carter ...
    Over the course of a single generation, without significant discussion or debate, a key practice of traditional medicine was almost completely abandoned in mid-nineteenth-century Europe. K. Codell Carter's book describes how and why bloodletting was abandoned, noting that it was part of a process in which innovation was required so that modern scientific medicine could begin. This book is a ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • The History of Medicine

    A Very Short Introduction

    by William Bynum ...
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    Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times to the present. Focussing on the key turning points in the history of Western medicine, such as the advent of hospitals and the rise of experimental medicine, Bill Bynum offers insights into medicine's past, while at the same time engaging ... Read more

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  • A Short History of Medicine

    by F. González-Crussi ...
    Series Book 28 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In this lively, learned, and wholly engrossing volume, F. González-Crussi presents a brief yet authoritative five-hundred-year history of the science, the philosophy, and the controversies of modern medicine. While this illuminating work mainly explores Western medicine over the past five centuries, González-Crussi also describes how modern medicine’s roots extend to both Greco-Roman antiquity and ... Read more

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  • The Doctors' Plague

    Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis

    by Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. ...
    Series series Great Discoveries
    The "riveting" (Houston Chronicle), "captivating" (Discover), and "compulsively readable" (San Francisco Chronicle) story of the discovery that handwashing helps prevent the spread of disease.Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. Ignác Semmelweis is ... Read more

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  • The Medicine Book

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Big Ideas
    Learn 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 format. Learn about Medicine in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Medicine Book brings a fresh and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • From Paralysis to Fatigue

    A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era

    by Edward Shorter ...
    The first book to put the physical symptoms of stress in their historical and cultural context.This fascinating history of psychosomatic disorders shows how patients throughout the centuries have produced symptoms in tandem with the cultural shifts of the larger society. Newly popularized diseases such as "chronic fatigue syndrome" and "total allergy syndrome" are only the most recent examples of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

    by Roy Porter ...
    Series series The Norton History of Science
    **Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize"A panoramic and perfectly magnificent intellectual history of medicine…This is the book that delivers it all." —Sherwin Nuland, author of How We Die**Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking…a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book" (Los Angeles Times ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

    A Medical History of Humanity

    by Roy Porter ...
    This edition does not include illustrations.A definitive study of the history of medicine, from the earliest humans to the present day.Medicine is advancing at an incredible rate. We now have the ability to overcome sickness but also to transform the nature of life itself: in many parts of the world, human existence has simply ceased to be ‘nasty, brutish and short’. In this titanic history of ... Read more

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  • Pioneers Of Microbiology And The Nobel Prize

    by Ulf Lagerkvist ...
    We are swamped with information and each day seems to bring new discoveries that must be considered. Never before in the history of science have so many scientists been as active as today. It has become a major problem for the expert just to keep up with the literature in his or her own field of research. Why, then, should experts and their poor students worry about the pioneers of microbiology, ... Read more

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  • Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear, and rage

    An account of recent researches into the function of emotional excitement

    by Walter B. Cannon ...
    In "Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear, and Rage," Walter B. Cannon presents a groundbreaking exploration of the physiological responses of the human body to emotional and physical stimuli. Cannon's literary style deftly intertwines empirical observation with theoretical insight, situating the work within the context of early 20th-century physiological psychology. This seminal text introduces ... Read more

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