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  • Beyond Nightingale

    Nursing on the Crimean War battlefields

    de Carol Helmstadter ...
    Series series Nursing History and Humanities
    Beyond Nightingale is the first book to explore the inception of modern nursing from a transnational perspective, studying the development of the new military nursing in the five Crimean War armies. The story is told within the broader context of the different political, social and economic cultures from which modern nursing arose. Although the Russians were battling industrialised armies with ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Nursing before Nightingale, 1815-1899

    de Carol Helmstadter, Judith Godden ...
    Nursing Before Nightingale is a study of the transformation of nursing in England from the beginning of the nineteenth century until the emergence of the Nightingale nurse as the standard model in the 1890s. From the nineteenth century on historians have considered Florence Nightingale, with her training school established at St. Thomas's Hospital in 1860, the founder of modern nursing. This book ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

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  • Get Me Out

    A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank

    de Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D. ...
    "[An] engrossing survey of the history of childbirth." —Stephen Lowman, Washington PostMaking and having babies—what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver—have mystified women and men throughout human history. The insatiably curious Randi Hutter Epstein journeys through history, fads, and fables, and to the fringe of science. Here is an entertaining must-read—an enlightening ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Separate Beds

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • From Poison Arrows to Prozac

    How deadly toxins changed our lives forever

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy:Bodies, books, fortune, fame

    Bodies, books, fortune, fame

    de Ruth Richardson ...
    Gray's Anatomy is probably one of the most iconic scientific books ever published: an illustrated textbook of anatomy that is still a household name 150 years since its first edition, known for its rigorously scientific text, and masterful illustrations as beautiful as they are detailed.The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy tells the story of the creation of this remarkable book, and the individuals who ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Not Your Ordinary Doctor

    de Jim Leavesley ...
    Throughout history, many doctors have worked outside the occupation for which they were originally trained. Not Your Ordinary Doctor reveals sixty such medical truants who found fame in fields other than medicine.Meet Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's inspiration for Sherlock Holmes; cringe as Stalin tortures each of his eight doctors; follow John Keats, who abandons medicine to pursue his literary career. ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Veiled Warriors

    Allied Nurses of the First World War

    de Christine E. Hallett ...
    Caring for the wounded of the First World War was tough and challenging work, demanding extensive knowledge, technical skill, and high levels of commitment. Although allied nurses were admired in their own time for their altruism and courage, their image was distorted by the lens of popular mythology. They came to be seen as self-sacrificing heroines, romantic foils to the male combatant and ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Bergen-belsen 1945: A Medical Student's Journal

    de David Bowen Hargrave ...
    Between 1941 and 1945 as many as 70,000 inmates died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northwestern Germany. The exact number will never be known. A large number of these deaths were caused by malnutrition and disease, mainly typhus, shortly before and after liberation.It was at this time, in April of 1945, that Michael Hargrave answered a notice at the Westminster Hospital Medical School ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Miracle Cure

    The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine

    de William Rosen ...
    The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma.As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less than a generation with the discovery and development of a new category of medicine known as antibiotics. ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • The History of Radiology

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Unconscious Crime

    Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London

    de Joel Peter Eigen ...
    A sleepwalking, homicidal nursemaid; a "morally vacant" juvenile poisoner; a man driven to arson by a "lesion of the will"; an articulate and poised man on trial for assault who, while conducting his own defense, undergoes a profound personality change and becomes a wild and delusional "alter." These people are not characters from a mystery novelist's vivid imagination, but rather defendants who ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD