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  • Medicine and the Saints

    Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956

    by Ellen J. Amster ...
    The colonial encounter between France and Morocco took place not only in the political realm but also in the realm of medicine. Because the body politic and the physical body are intimately linked, French efforts to colonize Morocco took place in and through the body. Starting from this original premise, Medicine and the Saints traces a history of colonial embodiment in Morocco through a series of ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    Written in the 1850s when its author was a young doctor, Gray's Anatomy was the most comprehensive and accessible medical textbook of its time. This edition comprises an abridged version of the classic 1860 text - the last to be published during Gray's lifetime - and the masterly wood-block illustrations that ensured the runaway success of the original book.A national and international treasure, ... Read more

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  • The Barbary Plague

    The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco

    by Marilyn Chase ...
    “San Francisco in 1900 was a Gold Rush boomtown settling into a gaudy middle age. . . . It had a pompous new skyline with skyscrapers nearly twenty stories tall, grand hotels, and Victorian mansions on Nob Hill. . . . The wharf bristled with masts and smokestacks from as many as a thousand sailing ships and steamers arriving each year. . . . But the harbor would not be safe for long. Across the ... Read more

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  • On Speed

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  • Penicillin Man

    Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution

    by Kevin Brown ...
    Penicillin revolutionized healthcare and turned the modest, self-effacing Alexander Fleming into a world hero. This book tells the story of the man and his discovery set against a background of the transformation of medical research from 19th-century individualism through to teamwork and modern-day international big business. ... Read more

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  • A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest

    by James Henry Breasted ...
    James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago.In 1901 he became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the university, where he continued to concentrate on Egypt. In 1905 Breasted was promoted to professor, and was the first chair in ... Read more

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  • Enigmas of Health and Disease

    How Epidemiology Helps Unravel Scientific Mysteries

    by Alfredo Morabia ...
    This book is the principal account of epidemiology's role in the development of effective measures to identify, prevent, and treat diseases. Throughout history, epidemiologists have challenged conventional knowledge, elucidating mysteries of causality and paving the way for remedies. From the outbreak of the bubonic plague, cholera, and cancer to the search for an effective treatment of AIDS and ... 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

    $33.99 CAD

  • Politics and Power in the Maghreb

    Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco from Independence to the Arab Spring

    by Michael Willis ...
    The overthrow of the regime of President Ben Ali in Tunisia on 14 January 2011 took the world by surprise. The popular revolt in this small Arab country and the effect it had on the wider Arab world prompted questions as to why there had been so little awareness of it up until that point. It also revealed a more general lack of knowledge about the surrounding western part of the Arab world, or the ... Read more

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  • Trans-Saharan Africa in World History

    by Ralph A. Austen ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    During the heyday of camel caravan traffic--from the eighth century CE arrival of Islam in North Africa to the early twentieth-century building of European colonial railroads that linked the Sudan with the Atlantic--the Sahara was one of the world's great commercial highways, bringing gold, slaves, and other commodities northward and sending both manufactured goods and Mediterranean culture ... Read more

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  • Wounds in the Middle Ages

    by Anne Kirkham, Cordelia Warr ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    Wounds were a potent signifier reaching across all aspects of life in Europe in the middle ages, and their representation, perception and treatment is the focus of this volume. Following a survey of the history of medical wound treatment in the middle ages, paired chapters explore key themes situating wounds within the context of religious belief, writing on medicine, status and identity, and ... Read more

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  • Infantile Autism

    The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior by Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.

    by Robert K. Naviaux, Paul Millard Hardy, Lucy Jane Miller, Matthew Goodwin, Jillian Sullivan, Jon Pangborn, Simon Baron-Cohen, Bonnie Auyeung, Michael Lombardo, V. Mark Durand, Richard E. Frye, Darold A. Treffert, Martha R. Herbert, James B. Adams, Sidney M. Baker ...
    In 1964, the release of Dr. Bernard Rimland's book, Infantile Autism, revolutionized the autism field by providing the autism community with much-needed guidance on how to understand and treat individuals on the spectrum. He single-handedly realigned the field from a psychodynamic, parent-blaming perspective to a scientific, physiological course of action. This 50th anniversary edition presents ... Read more

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