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  • Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond

    Autopsy, Pathology and Display

    Edited by Piers Mitchell ...
    Excavations of medical school and workhouse cemeteries undertaken in Britain in the last decade have unearthed fascinating new evidence for the way that bodies were dissected or autopsied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book brings together the latest discoveries by these biological anthropologists, alongside experts in the early history of pathology museums in British medical ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • William Osler: A Life in Medicine

    A Life in Medicine

    by Michael Bliss ...
    William Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July 12, 1849. In a life lasting seventy years, he practiced, taught, and wrote about medicine at Canada's McGill University, America's Johns Hopkins University, and finally as Regius Professor at Oxford. At the time of his death in England in 1919, many considered him to be the greatest doctor in the world. Osler, who was a brilliant, ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Separate Beds

    A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s

    by Maureen K. Lux ...
    Separate Beds is the shocking story of Canada’s system of segregated health care. Operated by the same bureaucracy that was expanding health care opportunities for most Canadians, the “Indian Hospitals” were underfunded, understaffed, overcrowded, and rife with coercion and medical experimentation. Established to keep the Aboriginal tuberculosis population isolated, they became a means of ensuring ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • From Poison Arrows to Prozac

    How deadly toxins changed our lives forever

    by Professor Stanley Feldman ...
    Stanley Feldman is a leading light in the field of modern anaesthetics, a former Professor of Anaesthetics at London University and was appointed to the Imperial College School of Medicine. He is the author of many books, papers and lectures on the subject. He is also the author of Life Begins..., a positive guide to retirement, and co-editor of the acclaimed Panic Nation with Vincent Marks. ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Sexual Chemistry: A History of the Contraceptive Pill

    by Lara V. Marks ...

    $15.99 USD

  • On Ancient Medicine (Illustrated Edition)

    by Hippocrates ...
    Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.) is one of the best known of the Ancient Greeks, and his Hippocratic Oath is still in use today. An ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens, Hippocrates is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine, known simply as the Father of Western medicine in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field as ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The History of Radiology

    by Adrian M. K. Thomas, Arpan K. Banerjee ...
    Series series Oxford Medical Histories
    In 1890, Professor Arthur Willis Goodspeed, a professor of physics at Pennsylvania USA was working with an English born photographer, William N Jennings, when they accidentally produced a Röntgen Ray picture. Unfortunately, the significance of their findings were overlooked, and the formal discovery of X-rays was credited to Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895. The discovery has since transformed the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Knowledge in the Time of Cholera

    The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

    by Owen Whooley ...
    Vomiting. Diarrhea. Dehydration. Death. Confusion. In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. For the rest of the century, epidemics swept through American cities and towns like wildfire, killing thousands. Physicians of all stripes offered conflicting answers to the cholera puzzle, ineffectively responding with opiates, bleeding, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Good Doctor

    What Patients Want

    by Ron Paterson ...
    Drawing upon real accounts of negligence, incompetence, and distrust, this book seeks to identify the key competencies of a good doctor, the ways in which medical care fails, and the roadblocks to ensuring that every licensed doctor is capable. Arguing that it is possible to improve patient care—by lifting the veils of secrecy and better informing patients, by establishing more effective ways of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • AIDS Between Science and Politics

    by Peter Piot ...
    Translated by Laurence Garey ...
    Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), recounts his experience as a clinician, scientist, and activist fighting the disease from its earliest manifestation to today. The AIDS pandemic was not only catastrophic to the health of millions worldwide but also fractured international relations, global access to new technologies, and public ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Hurt

    The Inspiring, Untold Story of Trauma Care

    by Catherine Musemeche ...
    Trauma is a disease of epidemic proportions that preys on the young, killing more Americans up to age thirty-seven than all other afflictions combined. Every year an estimated 2.8 million people are hospitalized for injuries and more than 180,000 people die. We take for granted that no matter how or where we are injured, someone will call 911 and trained first responders will show up to insert IVs ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Blood in Motion

    by Abraham Noordergraaf ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Blood in Motion is a textbook in Cardiovascular Science. It sets out to introduce, entice and explain the cardiovascular system to the reader using a classical system in teaching anatomy, physiology, general operation and specific systems. It is specifically designed to support the interests of students, experienced physiologists and clinicians.The book is subdivided into three parts, comprising a ... Read more

    $49.99 USD