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  • Doctoring Freedom

    The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation

    by Gretchen Long ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been an empty victory. Even before emancipation, African Americans recognized that control of their bodies was a critical battleground in their struggle for autonomy, and they devised strategies to retain at least some of that control. In Doctoring Freedom, ... Read more

    $18.99 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

  • The History of Medicine

    A Very Short Introduction

    by William Bynum ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times to the present. Focussing on the key turning points in the history of Western medicine, such as the advent of hospitals and the rise of experimental medicine, Bill Bynum offers insights into medicine's past, while at the same time engaging ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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

    Bodies, books, fortune, fame

    by 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 ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Blessed Days of Anaesthesia

    How anaesthetics changed the world

    by Stephanie J. Snow ...
    Among all the great discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century, few offer us a more fascinating insight into Victorian society than the discovery of anaesthesia. Now considered to be one of the greatest inventions for humanity since the printing press, anaesthesia offered pain-free operations, childbirth with reduced suffering, and instant access to the world beyond consciousness. And ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Obesity: The Biography

    by Sander L. Gilman ...
    Series series Biographies of Disease
    According to the World Health Organization we are in the midst of a global obesity crisis. Is obesity a disease itself or a symptom of underlying physiological or psychological illnesses? Is it a sign of social excess and therefore not a disease in the medical sense at all? Is it really 'new'? Sander L. Gilman, a leading authority in the social and cultural history of the body, presents a ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Landmark Papers in Nephrology

    Edited by John Feehally, Christopher McIntyre, J. Stewart Cameron ...
    Series series Landmark Papers in
    Landmarks in Nephrology points the reader to some of the seminal observations which have led to the practice of nephrology as we know it today. Twenty areas of nephrology are covered by discrete chapters, with the editors selecting the ten most important papers ever published in that field. These range from observational and experimental studies from the 18th century, which laid the groundwork for ... Read more

    $118.79 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

  • Between Flesh and Steel

    A History of Military Medicine from the Middle Ages to the War in Afghanistan

    by Richard A. Gabriel ...
    Over the last five centuries, the development of modern weapons and warfare has created an entirely new set of challenges for practitioners in the field of military medicine. Between Flesh and Steel traces the historical development of military medicine from the Middle Ages to modern times.Military historian Richard A. Gabriel focuses on three key elements: the modifications in warfare and weapons ... Read more

    $34.95 USD

  • Ill Composed

    Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England

    by Prof. Olivia Weisser ...
    In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary men and women. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including personal diaries, medical texts, and devotional literature, the author enters the sickrooms of a diverse sampling of early ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Public Health in Jamaica, 1850-1940

    Neglect, Philanthropy and Development

    by Margaret Jones ...
    Using a range of primary sources from imperial, colonial and local government records, Rockefeller Foundation Archives, memoirs and reports, this study provides the most comprehensive account to date of public health in Jamaica in the post-emancipation colonial period to the onset of the Second World War. The account is framed by two pivotal Jamaican experiences that were vital in precipitating ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Black Death

    by Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker ...
    That Omnipotence which has called the world with all its living creatures into one animated being, especially reveals Himself in the desolation of great pestilences. The powers of creation come into violent collision; the sultry dryness of the atmosphere; the subterraneous thunders; the mist of overflowing waters, are the harbingers of destruction. Nature is not satisfied with the ordinary ... Read more

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