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ISBN: 9780415145701 - Greek Rational Medicine Greek Rational Medicine
Longrigg, James

ISBN10: 9780203033449  ISBN13: 9780203033449
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
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... More

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ISBN: 9780199215270 - Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London Simon Forman Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London Simon Forman
LAUREN, KASSELL

ISBN10: 9780191514227  ISBN13: 9780191514227
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Simon Forman (1552-1611) is one of London's most infamous astrologers. Whilst he was consulted thousands of times a year for medical and other questions he stood apart from the medical elite as he boldly asserted medical ideas that were at odds... More

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ISBN: 9780300126051 - Cutter Incident Cutter Incident
Paul A Offit, M D

ISBN10: 9780300130379  ISBN13: 9780300130379
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Vaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. Yet today only four companies make vaccines, and there is a growing crisis in vaccine availability. Why has this happened? This remarkable book recounts for the first time a... More

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ISBN: 9780415368483 - Ancient Medicine Ancient Medicine
Nutton, Vivian

ISBN10: 9780203490914  ISBN13: 9780203490914
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
Available for the first time in paperback, this first large-scale, sole-authored history of ancient medicine for almost 100 years uses both archaeological and written evidence to survey the development of medical ideas from early Greece to late... More

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ISBN: 9780199202706 - Vernacular Bodies The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England Vernacular Bodies The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England
E, FISSELL MARY

ISBN10: 9780191513947  ISBN13: 9780191513947
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Making babies was a mysterious process in seventeenth-century England. Fissell uses popular sources - songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals - to recover how ordinary men and women understood the processes of... More

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ISBN: 9780198233640 - War Epidemics An Historical Geography of Infectious Diseases in Military Conflict and Civil Strife, 1850-2000 War Epidemics An Historical Geography of Infectious Diseases in Military Conflict and Civil Strife, 1850-2000
MAT, SMALLMAN-RAYNOR

ISBN10: 9780191513459  ISBN13: 9780191513459
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Written from the viewpoints of historical geography, epidemiology, and spatial analysis, this book examines in four parts the historical occurrence and geographical spread of infectious diseases in association with wars. Part I... More

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ISBN: 9780126437652 - Paul Ehrlich's Receptor Immunology: Paul Ehrlich's Receptor Immunology:
Silverstein, Arthur M

ISBN10: 9780080538518  ISBN13: 9780080538518
Publisher: Elsevier Science Academic Press
Format: Electronic Book
This book describes the background to Paul Ehrlich's immunological works and theories and delves into the substance of his experiments in great detail. By exploring these early developments in immunology, the book lays the foundation for modern... More

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ISBN: 9781403985934 - Decolonizing International Health Decolonizing International Health

ISBN10: 9780230627369  ISBN13: 9780230627369
Publisher: Palgrave Trade
Format: Electronic Book

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ISBN: 9780393325690 - Blood and Guts Blood and Guts
Porter, Roy

ISBN10: 9780141932330  ISBN13: 9780141932330
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ePenguin
Format: Electronic Book
Mankind's battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects. This brief, witty and unusual book by Britain's greatest medical historian compresses into a tiny span a lifetime spent thinking about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to... More

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ISBN: 9780195138085 - Exploring the History of Neuropsychology Selected Papers Exploring the History of Neuropsychology Selected Papers
L, BENTON ARTHUR

ISBN10: 9780198031574  ISBN13: 9780198031574
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
The essays in this book cover diverse aspects of the evolution of thought and practice in neuropsychology and behavioral neurology. Among the topics considered are the frontal lobes, disorders of spatial thinking, developmental dyslexia and the... More