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  • Des Origines De La Métallothérapie, Part Qui Doit Être Faite Au Magnétisme Animal Dans Sa Découverte
    Burq Victor 1823-1884
    Découvrez l’histoire des origines de la métallothérapie et les contributions du magnétisme animal, du burquisme et du perkinisme dans sa découverte. Un ouvrage essentiel pour les passionnés et les chercheurs en médecine.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'publ...
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    33,68 €

  • Medical Work Of The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society
    Annie Ryder Gracey
    This book is an exploration of the medical work carried out by the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society Methodist Episcopal Church, with special emphasis on their work in Asia, Africa and other such areas. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the challenges faced by female medical workers in the mission field and showcases the incredible work done by these pioneering women. ...
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    35,52 €

  • 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 €

  • Hysteria; Six Lectures Delivered to the Students of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1866
    Frederic Carpenter Skey
    This groundbreaking book explores the fascinating topic of hysteria, a condition that was once widely misunderstood and misdiagnosed. Using case studies and medical research, the author sheds light on the history of hysteria and its impact on society. Whether you’re a medical professional or simply interested in the history of science and medicine, this book is a thought-provok...
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    20,22 €

  • Five Essays
    John Kearsley Mitchell / Silas Weir Mitchell
    A collection of five essays by John Kearsley Mitchell and Silas Weir Mitchell on topics including medical research and mental illness. Both authors were prominent physicians in the 19th century and made significant contributions to the field of medicine. This volume offers insight into their thoughts and ideas on various aspects of the medical world.This work has been selected ...
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    27,04 €

  • Aus dem Leben eines New Yorker Arztes, Zweiter Band
    Edward H. Dixon
    Der zweite Band von Edward H. Dixons Aus dem Leben eines New Yorker Arztes beschreibt das Leben und Arbeiten während der RenaissanceThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
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    34,74 €

  • Synopsis Of the Contents Of the Museum Of the Royal College Of Surgeons Of
    Royal College of Surgeons of England
    An informative catalogue of the collections held at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, covering a range of topics in the history of medical science and surgery. With detailed descriptions of the specimens and artifacts on display, this book is an important resource for researchers and historians of medicine.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally impo...
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    33,88 €

  • Cold, hard steel
    Agnes Arnold-Forster
    Cold, hard steel anatomises the surgical stereotype in modern and contemporary Britain. It offers a new social, cultural and emotional history of this specialty, explores the development of its professional identity and foregrounds experiences of surgeons at work. ...
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    42,93 €

  • Digitizing Diagnosis
    Andrew S Lea
    A fascinating history of the first attempts to computerize medical diagnosis.Beginning in the 1950s, interdisciplinary teams of physicians, engineers, mathematicians, and philosophers began to explore the possible application of a new digital technology to one of the most central, and vexed, tasks of medicine: diagnosis. In Digitizing Diagnosis, Andrew Lea examines these effort...
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    67,06 €

  • Immigrant Physicians
    Ghazi Rayan MD
    Ghazi Rayan, MD delivers this pivotal and immersive history detailing the growth of medical progress and its connection to the movement of people and ideas across borders. From the desk of acclaimed speaker and academic Ghazi Rayan, MD comes a broad and ambitious work of both history and culture.Beginning with the origins of medical practice in ancient history and continuing to...
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    19,47 €

  • Immigrant Physicians
    Ghazi Rayan MD
    Ghazi Rayan, MD delivers this pivotal and immersive history detailing the growth of medical progress and its connection to the movement of people and ideas across borders. From the desk of acclaimed speaker and academic Ghazi Rayan, MD comes a broad and ambitious work of both history and culture.Beginning with the origins of medical practice in ancient history and continuing to...
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    28,41 €

  • Liber De Secretis Naturae
    Christopher Templesage / RAYMUNDI Lulli
    This is the complete set of books one through four.'Liber de Secretis Naturae,' by Ramon Llull, delves deep into the intertwined realms of alchemy, medicine, surgery, proto-chemistry, and early medieval science. This enigmatic work, believed to be a pseudo-Lullian creation originating from a clandestine medical school, uncovers the hidden secrets within these disciplines. With ...
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    97,36 €

  • Paediatrics in the Reichsuniversität Straßburg
    Aisling Shalvey
    Examines the experience of paediatric patients, and the staff who determined their treatment, in the Reichsuniversitat Strasbourg, a Nazi-run hospital in occupied France from 1941 to 1944. ...
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    135,38 €

  • Neuroliterature 2 Biography, Semiology, Miscellany
    Andrew J Larner
    Neuroliterature 2 Biography, Semiology, Miscellany gathers occasional and more substantive pieces written around the theme of medical history in the 17th 18th and 19th centuries including biographical pieces, considerations of the semiology of terms used in clinical medicine, and a miscellany of pieces on related medical topics. It will be of interest to those who are intereste...
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    21,64 €

  • The malleable body
    Heidi Hausse
    This invaluable study reveals how practices for treating the loss of limbs in early modern Germany transformed western medicine. From amputations to mechanical arms, surgical and artisanal interventions forged a growing perception, fundamental to biomedicine today, that humans could alter the body-that it was malleable. ...
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    51,73 €

  • Lazaretto
    David Barnes
    How the controversial practice of quarantine saved nineteenth-century Philadelphia after a series of deadly epidemics.In the 1790s, four devastating yellow fever epidemics threatened the survival of Philadelphia, the nation’s capital and largest city. In response, the city built a new quarantine station called the Lazaretto downriver from its port. From 1801 to 1895, a strict q...
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    40,73 €

  • The Medieval Hospital
    Nicole R. Rice
    Nicole Rice’s original study analyzes the role played by late medieval English hospitals as sites of literary production and cultural contestation.The hospitals of late medieval England defy easy categorization. They were institutions of charity, medical care, and liturgical commemoration. At the same time, hospitals were cultural spaces sponsoring the performance of drama, the...
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    138,88 €

  • Madness, Mayhem, and Modern Medicine
    Dr. L.H. Nelson
    Strong’s Concordance: 5331. Pharmakeiapharmakeia: the use of medicine, drugs or spellsOriginal Word: φαρμακεία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, FeminineTransliteration: pharmakeiaPhonetic Spelling: (far-mak-i’-ah)Definition: the use of medicine, drugs or spellsUsage: magic, sorcery, enchantment.pharmakeía (from pharmakeuō, 'administer drugs') - properly, drug-related sorcery, like t...
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    25,69 €

  • Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America
    Leslie A. Schwalm
    This social and cultural history of Civil War medicine and science sheds important light on the question of why and how anti-Black racism survived the destruction of slavery. During the war, white Northerners promoted ideas about Black inferiority under the guise of medical and scientific authority. In particular, the Sanitary Commission and Army medical personnel conducted war...
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    127,09 €

  • Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America
    Leslie A. Schwalm
    This social and cultural history of Civil War medicine and science sheds important light on the question of why and how anti-Black racism survived the destruction of slavery. During the war, white Northerners promoted ideas about Black inferiority under the guise of medical and scientific authority. In particular, the Sanitary Commission and Army medical personnel conducted war...
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    31,71 €

  • Publics and their health
    Why are some groups and individuals seen as problems for public health? How does this change over time and place? Through a series of case-studies, this collection explores the making of ’problem publics’ and their relationship with public health authorities. ...
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    169,84 €

  • Netley Diary 1915-1916
    Alec Riley
    Corporal Alec Riley served at Gallipoli in 1915 with the British 42nd (East Lancashire) Division. ’Four months of Gallipoli gave me four diseases and 12 months in Netley.’Riley chose the Royal Victoria Hospital for his convalescence because he wanted to know what a great military hospital was like, that knowledge recorded in a diary of his time at Netley.’I have tried,’ says Ri...
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    34,86 €

  • The Language of Disease
    Steven Wilson
    While the ’venereal peril’ of nineteenth-century France was responsible for thousands of deaths, much attention has focused on the range of social anxieties with which it was associated, including degeneracy, depopulation, state surveillance and public morality. In this interdisciplinary study, Steven Wilson redirects attention onto the body as locus of syphilis. Combining a cr...
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    17,75 €

  • Hybrid healing
    Lori Ann Garner
    This book works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies. Taking a case study approach, it offers close readings tailored to individual remedies, drawing from biology, rhetoric, archaeology, folkloristics and disability studies. ...
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    156,94 €

  • The Reasoning of Traditional Chinese Medicine
    Song Xuan Ke
    This book is intended as an introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for students, practitioners, or lay people with a general interest in Chinese medicine. It provides a clear and compact delivery of TCM’s reasoning, history, philosophy, theory, and treatment principles. The author has approached this from the perspective of the reasoning behind Chinese medicine, its...
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    45,87 €

  • The Reasoning of Traditional Chinese Medicine
    Song Xuan Ke
    This book is intended as an introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for students, practitioners, or lay people with a general interest in Chinese medicine. It provides a clear and compact delivery of TCM’s reasoning, history, philosophy, theory, and treatment principles. The author has approached this from the perspective of the reasoning behind Chinese medicine, its...
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    81,41 €

  • Why Wellness Sells
    Colleen Derkatch
    How and why the idea of wellness holds such rhetorical--and harmful--power.In Why Wellness Sells, Colleen Derkatch examines why the concept of wellness holds such rhetorical power in contemporary culture. Public interest in wellness is driven by two opposing philosophies of health that cycle into and amplify each other: restoration, where people use natural health products to ...
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    62,91 €

  • Masters of Health
    Christopher Willoughby
    Medical science in antebellum America was organized around a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human yet still human enough to be viable as experimental subjects, as cadavers, and for use in the training of medical students. By taking a hard look at the racial ideas of both northern and southern medical schools, Christopher D. E. Willoughby reveals that rac...
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    126,89 €

  • Masters of Health
    Christopher Willoughby
    Medical science in antebellum America was organized around a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human yet still human enough to be viable as experimental subjects, as cadavers, and for use in the training of medical students. By taking a hard look at the racial ideas of both northern and southern medical schools, Christopher D. E. Willoughby reveals that rac...
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    38,03 €


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