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  • Authorized to Heal

    Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930

    by Sandra Lee Barney ...
    In this book, Sandra Barney examines the transformation of medical care in Central Appalachia during the Progressive Era and analyzes the influence of women volunteers in promoting the acceptance of professional medicine in the region. By highlighting the critical role played by nurses, clubwomen, ladies' auxiliaries, and other female constituencies in bringing modern medicine to the mountains, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl

    How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis

    by Arthur Allen ...
    “Thought-provoking…[Allen] writes without sanctimony and never simplifies the people in his book or the moral issues his story inevitably raises." —Wall Street JournalFew diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed—refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples—causing hallucinations, terrible headaches, boiling fever, and often death. The disease ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Virus Hunt

    The search for the origin of HIV/AIDs

    by Dorothy H. Crawford ...
    The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans. Dorothy H. Crawford traces the story back to the remote rain forests of Africa - home to the primates that carry the ancestral virus - and reveals how HIV-1 first jumped from chimpanzees ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 42 Fair Share

    Country and City in Australia

    by Judith Brett ...
    Series Book 42 - Quarterly Essay
    Once the country believed itself to be the true face of Australia: sunburnt men and capable women raising crops and children, enduring isolation and a fickle environment, carrying the nation on their sturdy backs. For almost 200 years after white settlement began, city Australia needed the country: to feed it, to earn its export income, to fill the empty land, to provide it with distinctive images ... Read more

    $6.99 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

  • Lovie

    The Story of a Southern Midwife and an Unlikely Friendship

    by Lisa Yarger ...
    Series series Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
    From 1950 to 2001, Lovie Beard Shelton practiced midwifery in eastern North Carolina homes, delivering some 4,000 babies to black, white, Mennonite, and hippie women; to those too poor to afford a hospital birth; and to a few rich enough to have any kind of delivery they pleased. Her life, which was about giving life, was conspicuously marked by loss, including the untimely death of her husband ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • 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

  • Fractured States

    Smallpox, Public Health and Vaccination Policy in British India

    by Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Michael Worboys ...
    Series series NPSAH
    This work provides a well rounded history of official smallpox measures and their links with the development of public health in policies and programmes in Brititsh India. It examines vaccination policy and technology from a political, economic and technical perspective as well as the cultural and religious implications of medical intervention in smallpox eradication. There is an exposition of the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Five Plays

    by Samuel D. Hunter ...
    "An important new voice in the American theater."—Los Angeles Times"If there's a soul adrift—physically or spiritually—in the Gem State, chances are good he sprang from the fertile pen of Samuel D. Hunter."—Playbill"Mr. Hunter . . . writes with unusual insight into, and empathy for, people whose lives have settled into sad stasis, or strategic withdrawal . . . [He is] sure-footed when it comes to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The American Disease

    Origins of Narcotic Control

    by David F. Musto ...
    The American Disease is a classic study of the development of drug laws in the United States. Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David F. Musto examines the relationz between public outcry and the creation of prohibitive drug laws from the end of the Civil War up to the present. Originally published in 1973 ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Battlefield Surgeon

    Life and Death on the Front Lines of World War II

    by Paul A. Kennedy, John T. Greenwood ...
    Series series American Warriors Series
    In November 1942, Paul Andrew Kennedy (1912–1993) boarded the St. Elena in New York Harbor and sailed for Casablanca as part of Operation Torch, the massive Allied invasion of North Africa. As a member of the US Army's 2nd Auxiliary Surgical Group, he spent the next thirty-four months working in North Africa, Italy, France, and Germany, in close proximity to the front lines and often under air or ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Hour of Eugenics"

    Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America

    by Nancy Leys Stepan ...
    Stepan's warning regarding the politics of scientific interpretation in the future seems most appropriate.... This is an important book, meticulously done, and will be of significant value to Latin Americanists (especially Brazilianists), to historians of science and medicine and to those concerned with the history of ideas as well as those interested in the rise (and fall?) of eugenics.―American ... Read more

    $25.99 USD