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  • William Richard Gowers 1845-1915

    Exploring the Victorian Brain

    by Prof Ann Scott, Prof Mervyn Eadie, Prof Andrew Lees ...
    Sir William Richard Gowers was one of the pre-eminent clinical neurologists of the nineteenth century. He is best remembered for his discovery of the eponymous 'Gowers' sign', for his invention of the patella hammer, and for authoring the classic two-volume neurology textbook Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System. To date Dr Gowers has been the subject of only one published biography, while ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

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  • Gracefully Insane

    The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital

    by Alex Beam ...
    Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution-one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America. McLean "alumni" include Olmsted himself, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, James Taylor and Ray Charles, as ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Story of Pain

    From Prayer to Painkillers

    by Joanna Bourke ...
    Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. It is easy to assume this is the end of the story: 'pain-is-pain-is-pain', and that is all there is to say. But it is not. In fact, the way in ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Kelloggs

    The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek

    by Howard Markel ...
    ***2017 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Nonfiction***"What's more American than Corn Flakes?" —Bing CrosbyFrom the much admired medical historian (“Markel shows just how compelling the medical history can be”—Andrea Barrett) and author of An Anatomy of Addiction (“Absorbing, vivid”—Sherwin Nuland, The New York Times Book Review, front page)—the story of America’s empire builders: ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires

    The History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians

    by Richard Sugg ...
    Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, which saw kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribe, swallow or wear human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin in an attempt to heal themselves of epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague, cancer, gout and depression. In this comprehensive and accessible text, ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Sorcerer's Tale

    Faith and Fraud in Tudor England

    by Alec Ryrie ...
    An earl's son, plotting murder by witchcraft; conjuring spirits to find buried treasure; a stolen coat embroidered with pure silver; crooked gaming-houses and brothels; a terrifying new disease, and the self-trained surgeon who claims he can treat it. This is the world of Gregory Wisdom, a physician, magician, and consummate con-man at work in sixteenth-century London. In this book, Alec Ryrie ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Medical Man

    by Helen Webster ...
    Called out by a frightened country doctor in the dark night of a prairie winter in 1919 to assist with an emergency appendectomy, Dr. Robert Ross travels to an isolated farmhouse where he finds himself entangled in a tragedy. He is immediately caught up in an ethical dilemma where all of his life experiences, values and skills as a physician and surgeon are put to the test. Is he about to become ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Catching Cancer

    The Quest for its Viral and Bacterial Causes

    by Claudia Cornwall ...
    Catching Cancer introduces readers to the investigators who created a medical revolution—a new way of looking at cancer and its causes. Featuring interviews with notable scientists such as Harald zur Hausen, Barry Marshall, Robin Warren, and others, the book tells the story of their struggles, their frustrations, and finally the breakthroughs that helped form some of the most profound changes in ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Medicine and Public Health in Latin America

    A History

    by Marcos Cueto, Steven Palmer ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    Despite several studies on the social, cultural, and political histories of medicine and of public health in different parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, local and national focuses still predominate, and there are few panoramic studies that analyze the overarching tendencies in the development of health in the region. This comprehensive book summarizes the social history of medicine, ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Voices of the Women's Health Movement, Volume 2

    Edited by Barbara Seaman, Laura Eldridge ...
    An unprecedented and definitive collection of rabble-rousing writings on women’s health, Voices of the Women’s Health Movement explores a range of provocative topics from reproductive rights to sexuality to motherhood. Trail-blazing advocate Barbara Seaman and health activist Laura Eldridge bring the revolutionary ideas of several generations together in this powerful new book celebrating women’s ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • AIDS Doctors

    Voices from the Epidemic: An Oral History

    by Ronald Bayer, Gerald M. Oppenheimer ...
    Today, AIDS has been indelibly etched in our consciousness. Yet it was less than twenty years ago that doctors confronted a sudden avalanche of strange, inexplicable, seemingly untreatable conditions that signaled the arrival of a devastating new disease. Bewildered, unprepared, and pushed to the limit of their diagnostic abilities, a select group of courageous physicians nevertheless persevered. ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Neurological Patient in History

    by L. Stephen Jacyna, Professor Stephen Casper ...
    Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Tourette's, multiple sclerosis, stroke: all are neurological illnesses that create dysfunction, distress, and disability. With their symptoms ranging from impaired movement and paralysis to hallucinationsand dementia, neurological patients present myriad puzzling disorders and medical challenges.Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries countless stories about ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD