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  • The Black Death in Egypt and England

    A Comparative Study

    by Stuart J. Borsch ...
    Throughout the fourteenth century AD/eighth century H, waves of plague swept out of Central Asia and decimated populations from China to Iceland. So devastating was the Black Death across the Old World that some historians have compared its effects to those of a nuclear holocaust. As countries began to recover from the plague during the following century, sharp contrasts arose between the East, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • On Speed

    From Benzedrine to Adderall

    by Nicolas Rasmussen ...
    An extensively researched account of the ups and downs in the history of uppersUppers. Crank. Bennies. Dexies. Greenies. Black Beauties. Purple Hearts. Crystal. Ice. And, of course, Speed. Whatever their street names at the moment, amphetamines have been an insistent force in American life since they were marketed as the original antidepressants in the 1930s. On Speed tells the remarkable story of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine

    by Thomas H. Lee ...
    Since the 1950s, the death rate from heart attacks has plunged from 35 percent to about 5 percent—and fatalistic attitudes toward this disease and many others have faded into history. Much of the improved survival and change in attitudes can be traced to the work of Eugene Braunwald, MD. In the 1960s, he proved that myocardial infarction was not a “bolt from the blue” but a dynamic process that ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Generic

    The Unbranding of Modern Medicine

    by Jeremy A. Greene ...
    The turbulent history of generic pharmaceuticals raises powerful questions about similarity and difference in modern medicine.Generic drugs are now familiar objects in clinics, drugstores, and households around the world. We like to think of these tablets, capsules, patches, and ointments as interchangeable with their brand-name counterparts: why pay more for the same? And yet they are not quite ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Marketplace of the Marvelous

    The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine

    by Erika Janik ...
    An entertaining introduction to the quacks, snake-oil salesmen, and charlatans, who often had a pointDespite rampant scientific innovation in nineteenth-century America, traditional medicine still adhered to ancient healing methods such as induced vomiting and bleeding, blistering, and sweating patients. Facing such horrors, many patients ran with open arms to burgeoning practices promising new ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Changing Face of Medicine

    Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America

    by Ann K. Boulis, Jerry A. Jacobs ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    The number of women practicing medicine in the United States has grown steadily since the late 1960s, with women now roughly at parity with men among entering medical students. Why did so many women enter American medicine? How are women faring, professionally and personally, once they become physicians? Are women transforming the way medicine is practiced? To answer these questions, The Changing ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Prince's Body

    by Valeria Finucci ...
    Series series I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
    Using four notorious moments in the life of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua, Valeria Finucci explores changing early modern concepts of sexuality, reproduction, beauty, and aging. She deftly marries salacious tales with historical analysis to tell a broader story of Italian Renaissance cultural adjustments and obsessions. ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Medicalizing Blackness

    Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840

    by Rana A. Hogarth ...
    In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, “There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever.” Lining’s comments presaged ideas about blackness that would endure in medical discourses and beyond. In this fascinating medical history, Rana A. Hogarth examines the creation and circulation ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • American Sunshine

    Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light

    by Daniel Freund ...
    In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these new conditions with claims about a rising tide of the "diseases of darkness," especially rickets and tuberculosis.In American Sunshine, Daniel Freund ... Read more

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  • Margaret and Charley

    The Personal Story of Dr. Charles Best, the Co-Discoverer of Insulin

    by Henry B.M. Best ...
    Although Charles Best is known for discovering insulin, the story of his life neither begins nor ends with that one moment. Not only did he make many other discoveries, he was also one half of an extraordinary couple who, during their almost sixty years together, were involved in many of the significant events of the twentieth century. Margaret & Charley is the story of these two people from their ... Read more

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  • Within and Without the Nation

    Canadian History as Transnational History

    Edited by Karen Dubinsky, Adele Perry, Henry Yu ...
    In some ways, Canadian history has always been international, comparative, and wide-ranging. However, in recent years the importance of the ties between Canadian and transnational history have become increasingly clear. Within and Without the Nation brings scholars from a range of disciplines together to examine Canada’s past in new ways through the lens of transnational scholarship.Moving beyond ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Religion of Chiropractic

    Populist Healing from the American Heartland

    by Holly Folk ...
    Chiropractic is by far the most common form of alternative medicine in the United States today, but its fascinating origins stretch back to the battles between science and religion in the nineteenth century. At the center of the story are chiropractic’s colorful founders, D. D. Palmer and his son, B. J. Palmer, of Davenport, Iowa, where in 1897 they established the Palmer College of Chiropractic. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD