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  • The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine

    A History

    by Thomas Helling ...
    A startling narrative revealing the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I.The Great War of 1914-1918 burst on the European scene with a brutality to mankind not yet witnessed by the civilized world. Modern warfare was no longer the stuff of chivalry and honor; it was a mutilative, deadly, and humbling exercise to wipe ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Healers

    Physicians, Spiritualists, and Shamans in the Search for Holistic Health

    by Thomas S. Helling ...
    Human suffering is inevitable, and it is universal. It has provoked in societies a deep desire to fix, to restore, and to mend. That yearning to heal is physical and metaphysical; science and art; objectivity and intimacy. To do so one must touch the flesh but also that inner essence called spirit or soul. In that regard, healing involves what can be understood—the disease—and what eludes ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Historical Foundations of Liver Surgery

    by Thomas S. Helling, Daniel Azoulay ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    For the surgeon of antiquity the liver has been an organ of mystery – and danger. Attempts to repair its wounds or remove tumors were fraught with hemorrhage and often a fatal outcome. Most forays were those to remove easily accessible tumors on the liver edge, but bleeding was a feared consequence still and surgeons wielded a plucky fortitude to take on even those. Not until the mid-20th Century ... Read more

    $96.09 CAD

  • Critical Explorations of Crisis

    Politics, Precariousness, and Potentialities

    Edited by Helle Rydstrom, Mo Hamza, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Vanja Berggren ...
    Series series Global Discourse
    Claims to ‘crisis’ reverberate across societal and academic discourses, as people around the world face dire situations and detrimental challenges. Yet, the study of crisis tends to remain siloed and therefore oblivious to the multi-dimensional nature of crisis, which inhibits learning from one type of crisis to the next. Bringing together a broad team of contributors, this book argues for a new ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Sickly Vapors

    Disease and Doctoring in the Old South

    by Thomas Helling, MD ...
    The southern climate, with its heat, oppressive humidity, and stagnant marshland, accentuated disease and suffering for inhabitants of the Old South, from its early settling through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Vicious illnesses—from malaria and yellow fever to dysentery, cholera, typhoid fever, typhus, and smallpox—beleaguered those dwelling in the South and were blamed on the particular ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Cellulose Science and Technology

    Chemistry, Analysis, and Applications

    Edited by Thomas Rosenau, Antje Potthast, Johannes Hell ...
    This book addresses both classic concepts and state-of-the-art technologies surrounding cellulose science and technology. Integrating nanoscience and applications in materials, energy, biotechnology, and more, the book appeals broadly to students and researchers in chemistry, materials, energy, and environmental science.• Includes contributions from leading cellulose scientists worldwide, with ... Read more

    $247.99 CAD

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    The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine

    A History

    by Thomas Helling MD ...
    Narrated by Mack Sanderson ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 24 min

    A startling narrative revealing the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War IThe Great War of 1914–1918 burst on the European scene with a brutality to mankind not yet witnessed by the civilized world. Modern warfare was no longer the stuff of chivalry and honor; it was a mutilative, deadly, and humbling exercise to wipe ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Desperate Surgery in the Pacific War

    Doctors and Damage Control for American Wounded, 1941-1945

    by Thomas Helling, , M.D. ...
    Caring for the wounded in the World War II Pacific Theater posed serious challenges to doctors and surgeons. The thick jungles, remote atolls and heavily defended Japanese islands of the Pacific presented dangers to medical personnel never before encountered in modern warfare, as did the devastating new kamikaze attacks.Sophisticated treatments, including complex surgery, were by necessity far ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    The Biography of Medicine

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    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

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  • The Great Influenza

    The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

    by John M. Barry ...
    **#1 New York Times bestseller“Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.”—Bill Gates"Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."—Chicago Tribune**The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic.Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of ... Read more

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  • Rabid

    A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

    by Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy ...
    From Greek myths to zombie flicks, from the laboratory heroics of Louis Pasteur to the contemporary search for a lifesaving treatment, Rabid is a fresh and often wildly entertaining look at one of humankind's oldest and most fearsome foes.The most fatal virus known to science, rabies—a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans—kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the ... Read more

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  • SURVIVOR: USS Russell a World War Two Destroyer

    by Barry Friedman ...
    SURVIVORThrough six grueling years of warfare, USS Russell and her gallant crew pitted their prowess against a determined enemy.From the pre-Pearl Harbor Battle of the Atlantic to the campaigns in the Pacific, She was home to warriors who fought off attacks by submarines, planes and ships. She saw them through sixteen major engagements of World War Two including the Battles of Coral Sea, Java, ... Read more

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