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  • The Lock and Key of Medicine

    Monoclonal Antibodies and the Transformation of Healthcare

    by Lara V. Marks ...
    This book is the first to tell the extraordinary yet unheralded history of monoclonal antibodies. Often referred to as Mabs, they are unfamiliar to most nonscientists, yet these microscopic protein molecules are everywhere, quietly shaping our lives and healthcare. Discovered in the mid-1970s in the laboratory where Watson and Crick had earlier unveiled the structure of DNA, Mabs have radically ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Useful Bodies

    Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century

    A collection of essays that offers "a significant contribution to our understanding of the role of the state in human subjects research" ( Journal of the History of Biology).Though notoriously associated with Germany, human experimentation in the name of science has been practiced in other countries, as well, both before and after the Nazi era. The use of unwitting or unwilling subjects in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Abject

    Tales of Modern Unease

    Series series Comma Modern Horror
    SOMETHING HAS FALLEN AWAY.We have lost a part of ourselves, our history, what we once were. That something, when we encounter it again, look it straight in the eyes, disgusts us, makes us retch. This is the horror of the abject.Following the success of Comma’s award-winning New Uncanny anthology, The New Abject invites leading authors to respond to two parallel theories of the abject – Julia ... Read more

    $8.18 USD

  • Women and Children First (Routledge Revivals)

    International Maternal and Infant Welfare, 1870-1945

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1992, this book explores the efforts to counteract the high maternal and infant death rates present between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War. It looks at the problem in five different continents and shows the varying approaches used by the governments, institutions and individuals in those countries. Contributors display how policy and practice have ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Engineering Health

    How Biotechnology Changed Medicine

    Edited by Lara Marks ...
    Biotechnology harnesses cellular and biochemical systems to advance knowledge of the molecular cause of disease and to provide new diagnostic tools and more precisely targeted drugs. Within a decade, global investment in medical biotechnology has increased more than ten-fold, resulting in therapies for previously untreatable conditions. But what exactly is biotechnology and what are its origins? ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Migrants, Minorities & Health

    Historical and Contemporary Studies

    Edited by Lara Marks, Michael Worboys ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    How has twentieth-century medicine dealt with immigrants and minorities? The contributors to Migrants, Minorities and Health have studied a number of different types of migrant and minority groups from different societies around the world in order to examine the complex relations between health issues and ideas of ethnicity and race. The collection explores the historical origins and the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Flow

    Interior, Landscape and Architecture in the Era of Liquid Modernity

    Flow combines cutting-edge scholarship with practitioner perspectives to address the concept of 'flow' and how it connects interiors, landscapes and buildings, expanding on traditional notions of architectural prominence. Contributors explore the transitional and intermediary relationships between inside/outside. Through a range of case studies, authors extend the notion of flow beyond the western ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Jealousy Man and Other Stories

    Unabridged

    20 hours 19 min

    **#1 New York Times bestselling author Jo Nesbo's story "The Jealousy Man" is now a major motion picture Killer Heat starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, and Richard Madden – from Amazon MGM Studios and streaming on Prime Video.From “the greatest contemporary writer of the thriller” (The New York Times), THE JEALOUSY MAN is a dark and chilling short story collection that takes us on a ... Read more

    $27.50 USD

  • Of Words and Water - 2014

    Of Words and Water, #2

    Series Book 2 - Of Words and Water
    A new collection of short stories, poems and non-fiction from the talented members of Words and Water Group. This international group was formed in 2013 to encourage donations to WaterAid. In 2014 there are contributions from many of the original members, and new members have joined. In this very high quality work you will find early morning sunlight glistening in a drop of water, pivotal moments ... Read more

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    Of Words and Water, #1

    Series Book 1 - Of Words and Water
    Published in support of WaterAid, this delightful selection of short stories and poems has a cohesive theme of water. Donated by an international group of top class authors, there are many styles of writing which will each, in its own way, entertain you. Song lyrics and a poem were donated by renowned folk singer, musician and activist Peggy Seeger,Many of us take water for granted. With a simple ... Read more

    Free

  • Audiobook

    The Sandman

    A novel

    by Lars Kepler ...
    Narrated by Saul Reichlin ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - Killer Instinct

    Unabridged

    14 hours 27 min

    **“With its tight, staccato chapters and cast of dangerous wraiths lurking everywhere, The Sandman is a nonstop fright.” —Janet Maslin, The New York TimesThe #1 internationally best-selling thriller from the author of The Hypnotist tells the chilling story of a manipulative serial killer and the two brilliant police agents who must try to beat him at his own game.**Late one night, outside ... Read more

    $25.00 USD