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“peter j koehler”

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  • Neurological Eponyms

    Edited by Peter J. Koehler, George W. Bruyn, John M. S. Pearce ...
    Neurology abounds with eponyms--Babinski's sign, Guillain-Barre' syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, etc. Neurologists and neuroscientists, however, are often hazy about the origin of these terms. This book brings together 55 of the most common eponyms related to the neurological examination, neuroanatomy, and neurological diseases. The chapters have a uniform structure: a short biography, a discussion ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

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    by Pope Brock ...
    The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, NUTS!. “An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing” –USA TodayIn 1917, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen con man–introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading male virility.It was all nonsense, but thousands of eager customers quickly made “Dr.” Brinkley one of America’s richest ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Cruelest Miles

    The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic

    by Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury ...
    "A stirring tale of survival, thanks to man's best friend." —Seattle TimesWhen a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away, the port was icebound, and planes couldn't fly in blizzard conditions—only the dogs could make it. The heroic dash of ... Read more

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  • Let Me Heal

    The Opportunity to Preserve Excellence in American Medicine

    by Kenneth M. Ludmerer ...
    In Let Me Heal, prize-winning author Kenneth M. Ludmerer provides the first-ever account of the residency system for training doctors in the United States. He traces its development from its nineteenth-century roots through its present-day struggles to cope with new, bureaucratic work-hour regulations for house officers and, more important, to preserve excellence in medical training amid a highly ... Read more

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  • Forensic Medicine in Western Society

    A History

    by Katherine D. Watson ...
    The first book of its kind, Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History draws on the most recent developments in the historiography, to provide an overview of the history of forensic medicine in the West from the medieval period to the present day. Taking an international, comparative perspective on the changing nature of the relationship between medicine, law and society, it examines the ... Read more

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  • The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100

    Europe, America, and the Third World

    by Robert William Fogel ...
    Series Book 38 - Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
    Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling study, first published in 2004, examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. Throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been the norm. During the past three centuries, however, a synergy between improvements in productive technology and in human physiology has enabled humans to more than double their ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • A Companion to the Classification of Mental Disorders

    by John E. Cooper, Norman Sartorius ...
    A Companion to the Classification of Mental Disorders provides essential reading as a background and supplement to both the recently produced DSM-5 and the forthcoming ICD-11. It focuses on the processes of classification and diagnosis, and the uses for these classifications. The book emphasises the dangers of regarding any current psychiatric classification as true or complete, in view of the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Blood on Their Hands

    How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs

    by Donna Shaw, Eric Weinberg ...
    A few short years after HIV first entered the world blood supply in the late 1970s and early 1980s, over half the hemophiliacs in the United States were infected with the virus. But this was far more than just an unforeseeable public health disaster. Negligent doctors, government regulators, and Big Pharma all had a hand in this devastating epidemic.Blood on Their Hands is an inspiring, firsthand ... Read more

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  • Childhood Obesity in America

    Biography of an Epidemic

    by Laura Dawes ...
    A century ago, a plump child was considered a healthy child. No longer. An overweight child is now known to be at risk for maladies ranging from asthma to cardiovascular disease, and obesity among American children has reached epidemic proportions. Childhood Obesity in America traces the changes in diagnosis and treatment, as well as popular understanding, of the most serious public health problem ... Read more

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  • Reconstructing the Body

    Classicism, Modernism, and the First World War

    by Ana Carden-Coyne ...
    The First World War mangled faces, blew away limbs, and ruined nerves. Ten million dead, twenty million severe casualties, and eight million people with permanent disabilities - modern war inflicted pain and suffering with unsparing, mechanical efficiency. However, such horror was not the entire story. People also rebuilt their lives, their communities, and their bodies. From the ashes of war rose ... Read more

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  • Early Practice of Medicine by Women

    by Henry Carrington Bolton, E. Blackwell, Henry C. Bolton ...
    Early Practice of Medicine by Women : history and testimony."From the earliest times women have successfully grappled with a most difficult branch of medical science, gynecology, but long-existing and deep-seated prejudices prevented an extension of their practice, and save in exceptional cases they were forbidden both the acquirement of accurate and systematic knowledge and the exercise of their ... Read more

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  • The Mirror of Beryl

    A Historical Introduction to Tibetan Medicine

    by Sangye Desi Gyatso ...
    Translated by Gavin Kilty ...
    Series series Library of Tibetan Classics
    Composed while its author was the ruler of Tibet, Mirror of Beryl is a detailed account of the origins and history of medicine in Tibet through the end of the seventeenth century. Its author, Desi Sangye Gyatso (1653 - 1705), was the heart disciple and political successor of the Great Fifth Dalai Lama and the author of several highly regarded works on Tibetan medicine, including his Blue Beryl, a ... Read more

    $40.99 USD