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  • Jewish refugees and the British nursing profession
    Jane Brooks
    This book bears witness to the personal experiences of Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe in the highly gendered profession of nursing. ...
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    157,22 €

  • Murky waters
    Sophie Vasset
    Murky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature. It gives a wide cultural perspective of the numerous spas, springs and wells of Britain, well beyond Bath, and focuses on specific political and cultural tensions while reasserting the centrality of health in spa towns. ...
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    44,05 €

  • Doing psychiatry in postwar Europe
    Looking closely at practices that contributed to reshape the psychiatric field in the second half of the 20th century, Doing psychiatry offers new insights into a mental health assistance in transformation after World War II. Through richly documented case studies across Europe, this book sheds light on marginal experiences and everyday practices. ...
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    42,45 €

  • Myth and (mis)information
    This book discusses the various cultural forms and literary works by which information, myth and misinformation on medical practices and personages were spread during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and some of the reasons for this, from authorial self-interest to scientific ignorance. ...
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    157,10 €

  • Herbal Alchemy
    Alex Carter
    Welcome to 'Herbal Alchemy: Exploring the Secrets of Chinese Medicine - Ancient Wisdom for Modern Healing.' In this transformative journey, we delve into the rich tapestry of Chinese medicine, unlocking the age-old secrets of herbal alchemy for contemporary well-being.Embark on an enlightening exploration of the historical roots of Chinese medicine, tracing its origins and evol...
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    16,27 €

  • Motherhood confined
    Rachel E. Bennett
    The book is the first extensive historical examination of motherhood in English prisons. It addresses the challenges mothers and babies have historically posed to prison systems not designed with their containment and the management of their health in mind. ...
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    43,12 €

  • Viruses and Reproductive Injustice
    Ilana Löwy
    Brazil’s Zika outbreak revealed extreme health disparities and reproductive injustice across racial and socioeconomic lines.Brazil’s 2015 Zika outbreak led to severe illnesses for many and the birth of several thousands of children with severe brain damage. Even though mosquito-borne diseases such as the Zika virus affect people across society, these children were born almost e...
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    77,17 €

  • A text-book on hygiene and pediatrics from a chiropractic standpoint
    J. H. Craven
    A text-book on hygiene and pediatrics from a chiropractic standpoint, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reforma...
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    27,58 €

  • Ten Years and Ten Months in Lunatic Asylums in Different States
    Moses Swan
    Ten Years and Ten Months in Lunatic Asylums in Different States, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...
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    19,65 €

  • Feminist mental health activism in England, c. 1968-95
    Kate Mahoney
    This book provides the first in-depth examination of feminist mental health activism in England from c.1968-1995. It explores how feminist activists initially rejected Freud before using psychoanalysis to enhance their politics; examines the development of feminist therapy; and charts the influence of feminism on national mental health charities. ...
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    157,23 €

  • Aerial Nurse Corps of America
    Cynthia Broze
    If we are sick and require air transport, we expect a skilled flight nurse will assist us. Before 1936 this was far from reality. Air transportation of critically ill patients began sporadically during World War I, but they crammed the wounded behind the pilot’s area with no one to attend to them-the sick and dying patients had to fend for themselves. Lauretta Schimmoler realiz...
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    46,75 €

  • Ten Days in a Mad-House; or, Nellie Bly’s Experience on Blackwell’s Island. Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors. The Trying Ordeal of the New York World’s Girl Correspondent.
    Nellie Bly
    Ten Days in a Mad-House; or, Nellie Bly’s Experience on Blackwell’s Island. Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors. The Trying Ordeal of the New York World’s Girl Correspondent., is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its pres...
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    20,95 €

  • Sexual Neuroses
    J. T. Kent
    Sexual Neuroses , is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not ma...
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    20,70 €

  • Situating religion and medicine in Asia
    Michael Stanley-Baker
    This volume presents studies of the mobilisation of practices for health and spiritual well-being in various regions and times across Asia. The chapters use a common structure to situate these practices within their regions and times, demonstrating how they circulated across religious, medical and scientific domains. Introducing methodological tools and positions, the chapters ...
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    168,88 €

  • Collected Studies (Volume 4)
    Joseph Shatzmiller
    In Collected Studies (Volume 4): Jews in the Medical Profession, Joseph Shatzmiller, the prominent scholar of Provence Jewry, presents a fascinating glimpse into the world of Jewish doctors and medicine in medieval Western Europe. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources and intellectual history, Shatzmiller delves into the lives and experiences of Jewish physicians who played a...
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    121,86 €

  • Surgery and Salvation
    Elizabeth O’Brien
    In this sweeping history of reproductive surgery in Mexico, Elizabeth O’Brien traces the interstices of religion, reproduction, and obstetric racism from the end of the Spanish empire through the post-revolutionary 1930s. Examining medical ideas about operations (including cesarean section, abortion, hysterectomy, and eugenic sterilization), Catholic theology, and notions of mo...
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    126,66 €

  • Surgery and Salvation
    Elizabeth O’Brien
    In this sweeping history of reproductive surgery in Mexico, Elizabeth O’Brien traces the interstices of religion, reproduction, and obstetric racism from the end of the Spanish empire through the post-revolutionary 1930s. Examining medical ideas about operations (including cesarean section, abortion, hysterectomy, and eugenic sterilization), Catholic theology, and notions of mo...
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    41,72 €

  • Nothing But Nets
    Kirsten Moore-Sheeley
    How insecticide-treated bed nets became a staple of global public health initiatives and reshaped health practices in Africa and beyond.Distributed to millions of people annually across Africa and the global south, insecticide-treated bed nets have become a cornerstone of malaria control and twenty-first-century global health initiatives. Despite their seemingly obvious public ...
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    62,94 €

  • Do I Know You?
    Sharrona Pearl
    A fascinating history of how we recognize faces--or fail to recognize them.In Do I Know You? Sharrona Pearl explores the fascinating category of face recognition and the 'the face recognition spectrum,' which ranges from face blindness at one end to super recognition at the other. Super recognizers can recall faces from only the briefest exposure, while face blind people lack t...
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    44,76 €

  • The Medical Casebook of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson
    Nick Howlett
    Arthur Conan Doyle was a GP before he became a writer. He uses his medical knowledge widely in the Sherlock Holmes stories. He bases the deductive skills of his hero detective on the diagnostic techniques a GP uses with a patient. He even gives Sherlock a GP sidekick. This all contributes to the enduring popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories, over 130 years after the first ...
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    30,95 €

  • DOCTOR REDFERN
    Annegret Hall
    William Redfern is Australia’s first medical graduate. His pioneering work in public health medicine is acknowledged with the William Redfern Oration given at the annual congress of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.Redfern was a surgeon’s mate aboard HMS Standard during the 1797 Nore mutiny. For his involvement he was sentenced to death and spent three years in Cold...
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    17,00 €

  • A Hard Silence
    Melanie Brooks
    'A profound and riveting journey through shame and grief, A Hard Silence is, quite simply, unforgettable.' Monica Wood, author of When We Were the KennedysIn the mid 1980s, Canada’s worst public health disaster was unfolding. Catastrophic mismanagement of the country’s blood supply allowed contaminated blood to be knowingly distributed nationwide, infecting close to two thousan...
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    19,57 €

  • The Origins of the International Vaccine Institute
    Seung-il Shin
    The Short History of the Founding of the International Vaccine InstituteAccording to the 25th Year Impact Report issued by IVI, the list of its accomplishments over the past quarter century was truly impressive. The report said that more than 3,000 vaccine professionals from all corners of the world received training through IVI’s annual International Vaccinology Course. IVI wa...
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    20,11 €

  • The Modern Malady; Or, Sufferers from 'Nerves'
    Cyril Bennett
    The Modern Malady; Or, Sufferers from 'Nerves', a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books a...
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    20,73 €

  • Forensic cultures in modern Europe
    This book makes an important contribution to our knowledge of modern European forensic practices. It shows how the performance of forensic scientists has been shaped by political regimes, law and ideology, leading to different forensic cultures. ...
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    42,70 €

  • Sanitation in Panama
    William Crawford Gorgas
    Sanitation in Panama, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned cop...
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    24,75 €

  • The Sanitary Evolution of London
    Henry Jephson
    The Sanitary Evolution of London, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of...
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    32,92 €

  • Germs and governance
    This book addresses global concerns about microbial resistance. Combining historical case studies and first-hand practitioner accounts, it offers insights beyond current literature. Contributions from leading scholars, practitioners and policy makers explore outbreaks of MRSA and compare infection control measures in different case-study contexts. ...
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    43,96 €

  • Geschichte Des Grauen Staares
    Hugo Magnus
    Dieses Buch widmet sich der Geschichte des Grauen Staases, einer Augenerkankung, die im Mittelalter weit verbreitet war und zu Erblindung führen konnte. Der Autor bietet einen detaillierten Überblick über die medizinische und kulturelle Bedeutung der Erkrankung, von den ersten Beschreibungen in antiken Texten bis hin zur modernen Forschung. Dabei geht er auch auf die sozialen u...
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    37,39 €

  • The American Eclectic Practice of Medicine; Volume 1
    Ichabod Gibson Jones
    A comprehensive guide to the American Eclectic School of Medicine, an alternative medical practice that emerged in the 19th century and was known for its use of botanical remedies and non-invasive therapies. Written by prominent physician Ichabod Gibson Jones, this book explains the principles of the Eclectic School and provides detailed instructions for diagnosis and treatment...
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    48,95 €


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