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  • Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto

    A history of medical care 1941–1990

    by Simonne Horwitz ...
    Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto illustrates how this rapidly growing, underfunded but surprisingly effective institution found the niche that allowed it to exist, to provide medical care to a massive patient body and at times even to flourish in the apartheid state. The book offers new ways of exploring the history of apartheid, apartheid medicine and health care. The long history of Chris Hani ... Read more

    $26.99 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

    $29.99 USD

  • From Boer War to World War

    Tactical Reform of the British Army, 1902–1914

    by Spencer Jones ...
    Series series Campaigns and Commanders Series
    The British Expeditionary Force at the start of World War I was tiny by the standards of the other belligerent powers. Yet, when deployed to France in 1914, it prevailed against the German army because of its professionalism and tactical skill, strengths developed through hard lessons learned a dozen years earlier. In October 1899, the British went to war against the South African Boer republics ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Rorke's Drift

    by Adrian Greaves ...
    The story of the bravest battle ever fought.On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed and destroyed the British invading force at Isandlwana, killing and ritually disemboweling over 1200 troops. That afternoon, the same Zulu force turned their attention on a small outpost at Rorke's Drift.The battle that ensued, one of the British Army's great epics, has since entered into legend. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • After Freedom

    The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa

    by Katherine S. Newman, Ariane De Lannoy ...
    Twenty years after the end of apartheid, a new generation is building a multiracial democracy in South Africa but remains mired in economic inequality and political conflict.The death of Nelson Mandela in 2013 arrived just short of the twentieth anniversary of South Africa’s first free election, reminding the world of the promise he represented as the nation’s first Black president. Despite ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Unconscious Crime

    Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London

    by 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 ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Greek Rational Medicine

    Philosophy and Medicine from Alcmaeon to the Alexandrians

    by James Longrigg ...
    The ancient Greek medical thinkers were profoundly influenced by Ionian natural philosophy. This philosophy caused them to adopt a radically new attitude towards disease and healing. James Longrigg shows how their rational attitudes ultimately resulted in levels of sophistication largely unsurpassed until the Renaissance. He examines the important relationship between philosophy and medicine in ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Vaccine

    The Debate in Modern America

    by Mark A. Largent ...
    A thoughtful evaluation of the vaccine debate, its history, and its consequences.Since 1990, the number of mandated vaccines has increased dramatically. Today, a fully vaccinated child will have received nearly three dozen vaccinations between birth and age six. Along with the increase in number has come a growing wave of concern among parents about the unintended side effects of vaccines. In ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity

    Essays on the History of Psychiatry

    by Andrew Scull ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    This compelling book brings together many of the major papers published by Andrew Scull in the history of psychiatry over the past decade and a half.Examining some of the major substantive debates in the field from the eighteenth century to the present, the historiographic essays provide a critical perspective on such major figures as Michel Foucault, Roy Porter and Edward Shorter.Chapters on ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Medical Visions

    Producing the Patient Through Film, Television, and Imaging Technologies

    by Kirsten Ostherr ...
    How do visual images shape the practice of medicine? What role does visual representation play in the cultivation of medical ways of seeing? And how has medicine's visual culture changed in the digital age? Kirsten Ostherr's ambitious study explores 120 years of medical image-making to explain how visual representations shape medical education and practice. Marshaling powerful, vivid examples she ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The One-Eyed Surgeon with Only One Thumb

    Adventures with My Dad, Harry C. Barber, Md, Facs

    by John C Barber ...
    This book tells of the life of an extraordinary physician who overcame a teenage hunting accident in which he lost his left thumb and left eye. Through hard work and diligence, he became an excellent surgeon and medical leader in Central Illinois. The highlight of his career was the two years during World War II that he spent above the Arctic Circle repairing injured soldiers. After the war, he ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Students Must Rise

    Youth struggle in South Africa before and beyond Soweto '76

    Edited by Noor Nieftagodien, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu, Bhekizizwe Peterson, Ann Heffernan ...
    A detailed account of the incredibly influential Soweto Student Uprising of 1976The Soweto Student Uprising of 1976 was a decisive moment in the struggle against apartheid. It marked the expansion of political activism to a new generation of young activists, but beyond that it inscribed the role that young people of subsequent generations could play in their country's future. Since that momentous ... Read more

    $26.99 USD