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  • Paracelsus's Theory of Embodiment

    Conception and Gestation in Early Modern Europe

    by Amy Eisen Cislo ...
    Series series The Body, Gender and Culture
    Paracelsus has been called the father of modern chemistry and is legendary for his treatment of syphilis. This work argues that Paracelsus developed an understanding of the body as composed of two distinct sexes, revolutionizing early modern conceptions of the female body as an inversion of or flawed approximation of the male body. ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

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  • The Family That Couldn't Sleep

    A Medical Mystery

    by D. T. Max ...
    For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a primitive tribe is nearly obliterated by a sickness whose chief symptom is uncontrollable laughter. Across Europe, millions of sheep rub their fleeces ... Read more

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  • Demons

    Our changing attitudes to alcohol, tobacco, and drugs

    by Virginia Berridge ...
    Tabloid headlines attack the binge drinking of young women. Debates about the classification of cannabis continue, while major public health campaigns seek to reduce and ultimately eliminate smoking through health warnings and legislation. But the history of public health is not a simple one of changing attitudes resulting from increased medical knowledge, though that has played a key role, for ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Doctors

    The Biography of Medicine

    by Sherwin B. Nuland ...
    From the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the way.How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Plagues in World History

    by John Aberth ...
    Series series Exploring World History
    Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS. Geographically, these diseases have spread across the entire globe; temporally, they stretch from the sixth century to the present. John Aberth considers not only the varied impact that disease has had upon human history ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • A Special Hell

    Institutional Life in Alberta's Eugenic Years

    by Claudia Malacrida ...
    Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the dark history of the treatment of “mentally defective” children and adults in twentieth-century Alberta. Focusing on the Michener Centre in Red Deer, one of the last such facilities operating in Canada, A Special Hell is a sobering account of the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • History of the Social Determinants of Health

    Global Histories, Contemporary Debates

    Edited by Harold J. Cook, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Anne Hardy ...
    Every subject has its history, including the Social Determinants of Health. It is a subject that investigates differences in human health that occur because of social life, from income and class to family life and neighbourhood. Social determinants can have very large effects on longevity, just as do other determinants, such as the provision of medical care or clean drinking water. A Commission to ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Small Matters

    Canadian Children in Sickness and Health, 1900-1940

    by Mona Gleason ...
    Series Book 39 - McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
    What was it like to be young and sick in the past? Who taught children how to be healthy and what were they expected to learn? In Small Matters, Mona Gleason explores how medical professionals, lay practitioners, and parents understood young patients and how children responded.During the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in the interwar decades, a number of changes took shape ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Banking on the Body

    by Kara W. Swanson ...
    Each year Americans supply blood, sperm, and breast milk to "banks" that store these products for use by strangers in medical procedures. Who gives, who receives, who profits? Kara Swanson traces body banks from the first experiments that discovered therapeutic uses for body products to current websites that facilitate a thriving global exchange. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Imaging and Imagining the Fetus

    The Development of Obstetric Ultrasound

    by Malcolm Nicolson, John E. E. Fleming ...
    How engineers and clinicians developed the ultrasound diagnostic scanner and how its use in obstetrics became controversial.To its proponents, the ultrasound scanner is a safe, reliable, and indispensable aid to diagnosis. Its detractors, on the other hand, argue that its development and use are driven by the technological enthusiasms of doctors and engineers (and the commercial interests of ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • 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

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History and Evolution of Healthcare in America

    The Untold Backstory of Where We’Ve Been, Where We Are, and Why Healthcare Needs Reform

    by Thomas W. Loker ...
    From the beginning of mankind, health and health issues have played a major role in life, but the issues and care have evolved enormously from the time when the first settlers set foot in America to the present. In The History and Evolution of Healthcare in America, author Thomas W. Loker provides a historical perspective on the state of healthcare and offers fresh views on changes to Obamacare ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD