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  • Smallpox, Syphilis and Salvation: Medical breakthroughs that changed the world

    by Sheryl Persson ...
    SMALLPOX, SYPHILIS AND SALVATION is a highly accessible, engaging look at modern medicine. Since ancient times, mankind has searched for ways to defeat disease. It has only been in the last 200 years that scientists have made major inroads in medical science, and as a result, many, many lives have been, and continue to be, saved. From intense rivalries and vanity to bitter jealousies and ... Read more

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  • Inside the O'Briens

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    by Lisa Genova ...
    From New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Lisa Genova comes a “heartbreaking…very human novel” (Matthew Thomas, author of We Are Not Ourselves) that does for Huntington’s disease what her debut novel Still Alice did for Alzheimer’s.Joe O’Brien is a forty-three-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father ... Read more

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  • Jonas Salk

    A Life

    by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs ...
    When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, Salk had all the makings of a twentieth-century icon--a knight in a white coat. In the wake of his achievement, he received a staggering number of awards and honors; for years his name ranked with ... Read more

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  • The Great Plague of London

    by Stephen Porter ...
    Plague has been the most feared disease across Europe since the Black Death in the 1340s. Dreaded because of the scale of the mortality and its sheer foulness, its periodic outbreaks had a devastating impact. London’s last and most destructive attack came in 1665, when, according to Bishop Gilbert Burnet, ‘a most terrible plague broke out, that depopulated the city of London, ruined the trade of ... Read more

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  • I Left My Prostate in San Francisco—Where's Yours?

    Coping with the Emotional, Relational, Sexual, and Spiritual Aspects of Prostate Cancer

    by Brenda Redner, Rick Redner ...
    Rick and Brendas lives were changed forever when Rick went to the doctor to get a prescription refill. The doctor unexpectedly decided to perform a prostate exam. When he did, he felt a suspicious lump. Weeks later, a biopsy confirmed that Rick had prostate cancer. As a couple, they found their lives changed in unexpected ways following robotic surgery. They decided to share an intimate glimpse ... Read more

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  • Madness in Civilization

    A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine

    by Andrew Scull ...
    A beautifully illustrated history of the human encounter with unreasonThe loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that seizes hold and won't let go—these are some of the traits we associate with madness. Today, mental disturbance is most commonly viewed through a medical lens, but societies have also ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Catching Breath

    The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis

    by Miss Kathryn Lougheed ...
    Tuberculosis is an ancient disease, but it's not a disease of history. With more than a million victims every year – more than any other disease, including malaria – and antibiotic resistance now found in every country worldwide, tuberculosis is once again proving itself to be one of the smartest killers humanity has ever faced. But it's hardly surprising considering how long it's had to hone its ... Read more

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  • Disease in the History of Modern Latin America

    From Malaria to AIDS

    by Nancy Lews Stepan, Gabriela Nouzeilles, Marilia Coutinho ...
    Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. This innovative collection provides a vivid look at the latest research in the cultural history of medicine through insightful essays about how disease—whether it be cholera or aids, leprosy or mental ... Read more

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  • Natural Alternatives to Antibiotics – Revised and Updated

    How to treat infections without antibiotics

    by John McKenna ...
    'A long-awaited book that answers many questions.' Jan de Vries Antibiotics were developed in the 1940s. Then, they were hailed as a huge breakthrough in the treatment of bacterial infections. Today, they are the most commonly prescribed drugs worldwide. But massive over-prescription of antibiotics has created its own problems. The advent of antibiotic-resistant organisms – or 'superbugs' – has ... Read more

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  • Why Millions Died

    Before the War on Infectious Diseases

    by George H. Scherr ...
    Why Millions Died reviews the painfully slow development of research by isolated investigators who believed that diseases could be caused by infectious organisms. The brutally contentious and vivid arguments that raged between the proponents of the germ theory of disease and those who condemned it from both the scientific community and the pulpits delayed the implementation of vaccines and ... Read more

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  • Maladies & Medicine

    Exploring Health & Healing, 1540–1740

    by Sara Read, Jennifer Evans ...
    A lively account of medical practices in early modern England: "Superb . . . an essential piece of social history." — Books MonthlyIt was an era when tooth cavities were thought to be caused by tiny worms and smallpox by an inflammation of the blood, and cures ranged from herbal potions, cooling cordials, blistering the skin, and of course letting blood. Maladies and Medicine tells the story of ... Read more

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