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  • Molyneux’s Problem

    Three Centuries of Discussion on the Perception of Forms

    de M. Degenaar ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Suppose that a congenitally blind person has learned to distinguish and name a sphere and a cube by touch alone. Then imagine that this person suddenly recovers the faculty of sight. Will he be able to distinguish both objects by sight and to say which is the sphere and which the cube?This was the question which the Irish politician and scientist William Molyneux posed in 1688 to John Locke. ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

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  • Viruses, Plagues, and History

    Past, Present and Future

    de Michael B. A. Oldstone, M.D. ...
    The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses. Oldstone begins with smallpox, polio, and measles. Nearly 300 million people were killed by ... Leer más

    $14.29 USD

  • Not Your Ordinary Doctor

    de Jim Leavesley ...
    Throughout history, many doctors have worked outside the occupation for which they were originally trained. Not Your Ordinary Doctor reveals sixty such medical truants who found fame in fields other than medicine.Meet Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's inspiration for Sherlock Holmes; cringe as Stalin tortures each of his eight doctors; follow John Keats, who abandons medicine to pursue his literary career. ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Diagnosing Giants

    Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World

    de Philip A. Mackowiak ...
    Could Lincoln have lived? After John Wilkes Booth fired a low-velocity .44 caliber bullet into the back of the president's skull, Lincoln did not perish immediately. Attending doctors cleaned and probed the wound, and actually improved his breathing for a time. Today medical trauma teams help similar victims survive-including Gabby Giffords, whose injury was strikingly like Lincoln's. In ... Leer más

    $30.59 USD

  • King of Poisons: A History of Arsenic

    de John Parascandola ...
    For centuries, arsenic's image as a poison has been inextricably tied to images of foul play. In King of Poisons, John Parascandola examines the surprising history of this deadly element. From Gustave Flaubert to Dorothy Sayers, arsenic has long held a place in the literary realm as an instrument of murder and suicide. It was delightfully used as a source of comedy in the famous play Arsenic and ... Leer más

    $27.50 USD

  • The Midwife

    de Susan Cohen ...
    Series Libro 821 - Shire Library
    The midwife: medical professional, friend in a woman's hour of greatest need, potent social and cultural symbol. Though the role of midwife has existed since time immemorial, it is only since the Victorian era that it has been a recognised and regulated profession. This book, from social history expert Susan Cohen, looks at midwifery in Britain from ancient times up to the present, paying ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Shape of Spectatorship

    Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany

    de Scott Curtis ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Scott Curtis draws our eye to the role of scientific, medical, educational, and aesthetic observation in shaping modern spectatorship. Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology in Germany between the 1890s and World War I, he follows researchers, teachers, and intellectuals as they negotiated the fascinating, at times fraught relationship between technology, discipline, and ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • OCR GCSE History SHP: The Making of America 1789-1900

    de Alex Ford ...
    Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series, combining best practice teaching methods and worthwhile tasks to develop students' historical knowledge and skills.> Tackle unfamiliar topics with c ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Written in the Flesh

    A History of Desire

    de Edward Shorter ...
    Series series Heritage
    Written in the Flesh is a history of sexual desire – a startling and provocative history of what people yearn to do sexually. It is the story of the whole body's need for sexual attention rather than simply the genitalia and their procreational function.The desire for sexual pleasure and total body sex – that is, the expansion of sexuality from a limited focus on the face and genitals to include ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Selling Science

    Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin

    de Stephen E. Mawdsley ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
    Today, when many parents seem reluctant to have their children vaccinated, even with long proven medications, the Salk vaccine trial, which enrolled millions of healthy children to test an unproven medical intervention, seems nothing short of astonishing. In Selling Science, medical historian Stephen E. Mawdsley recounts the untold story of the first large clinical trial to control polio using ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • A Global History of Medicine

    Edición de Mark Jackson ...
    In recent decades, there has been considerable interest in writing histories of medicine that capture local, regional, and global dimensions of health and health care in the same frame. Exploring changing patterns of disease and different systems of medicine across continents and countries, A Global History of Medicine provides a rich introduction to this emergent field. The introductory chapter ... Leer más

    $17.09 USD

  • Nursing before Nightingale, 1815-1899

    de Carol Helmstadter, Judith Godden ...
    Nursing Before Nightingale is a study of the transformation of nursing in England from the beginning of the nineteenth century until the emergence of the Nightingale nurse as the standard model in the 1890s. From the nineteenth century on historians have considered Florence Nightingale, with her training school established at St. Thomas's Hospital in 1860, the founder of modern nursing. This book ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD