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Books on Medical > History
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Devra Davis
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2009]
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From the National Book Award finalist, author of When Smoke Ran Like Water , a searing, haunting and deeply personal account of the War on Cancer Description: From the National Book Award finalist and author of "When Smoke Ran Like Water" comes this searing, haunting, and deeply personal account of... more
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Florence Nightingale
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2003]
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Esteemed as the first nursing textbook, Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not was written to help spread Florence Nightingale’s vision for a better healthcare system. First published in 1859, it remains relevant today as it expounds on issues of food, bedding, light, cleanliness, and ventilations.... more
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Lois N Magner
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2005]
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Stressing major themes in the history of medicine, this Second Edition stimulates further exploration of the events, methodologies, and theories that shaped medical practices in decades past and in modern clinical practice-highlighting the practices of civilizations around the world, as well as the research of pioneering scientists and physicians who... more
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Hal Hellman
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Description: "An exciting, well-researched work, which should appeal to anyone with an interest in the nature and progress of the human race." - American Scientist The cataclysmic clash of medical ideas and personalities comes to colorful life In this follow-up to the critically acclaimed Great Feuds in Science (Wiley: 0-471-16980-3),... more
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Best Henry B M
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2003]
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copy not allowed. Print not allowed. Read aloud not allowed. Description: More than just the story of Charles Best's discovery of insulin, this is the tale of an extraordinary couple, told through diaries, scrapbooks, and photographs.... more
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Petrina Brown
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2007]
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Description: To relieve sore breasts, drink mouse dung diluted with rainwater and ass's milk . In Eve, Petrina Brown explores the changing facets of sex and relationships; the influence of religion and folklore; the changing role of the midwife; and the development of medical intervention in the birthing process. A... more
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Richard Saumarez ,
S Coleridge ,
Steven R Decker
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004]
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Description: Dr. Richard Saumarez (1764 - 1835), was a surgeon and honorary governor of Magdalen Hospital, London. The theme of Saumarez's New System of Physiology (2 vols 1798; 2nd ed 1799; 3rd ed 1813) can be briefly stated: Life is greater than the sum of its parts. It is rendered... more
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W Michael Byrd
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2000]
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Mark A Largent
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2007]
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The book begins in the 19th century when physicians began discussing the possibility of sterilizing degenerate citizens. By the turn of the century, other professionals championed the cause and lawmakers in two-thirds of the US had enacted laws that required the sterilization of various criminals, mental health patients epileptics and... more
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Richard M Swiderski
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2008]
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Formed as a word and a chemical compound in an culturally diverse Europe, calomel came to America as a solution to epidemics also imported. It grew into a primary gesture, both medical and commercial, of the healing professions. Opposition to its use, founded on experience with the effects of consuming... more
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Helen King
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 1998]
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Description: Hippocrates' Woman presents an arresting study of the origins of gynaecology, an exploration of how the interior workings of the female body were understood and the influence of Hippocrates' theories on the gynaecology of subsequent ages.... more
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Gerard N Burrow
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2002]
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W H R Rivers
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 1999]
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Joan E Lynaugh
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2002]
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Description: Nursing History Review , an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history. Regular sections include scholarly articles, over a dozen book reviews of the best publications on nursing and health care history... more
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William H Schneider
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2002]
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Description: The eight case studies in this edited volume show in detail how the Rockefeller Foundation's gifts affected medical research, education, and public health in Europe, the Soviet Union, and China between World War I and the Cold War. Despite the Foundation's goal to help countries with established medical research... more
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Frank Feldinger
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2008]
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Even the most well-meaning government controls can be more damaging than any disease. When Los Angeles and the State of California reacted to an outbreak of bubonic plague in a Hispanic neighborhood in 1924 government officials acted ruthlessly--on only partial information--to contain the outbreak and keep news of it quiet.... more
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Richard Swiderski
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2010]
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Description: Testing the boundaries between food, poison and medicine is a public show made into a continuing drama of risk and survival. This book is the first to explore the tradition of deliberate poison eating, its practitioners, and the substances that might nourish or kill them. Readers interested in the... more
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Connie Jankowski
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2009]
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A biography of the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, for whom the Hippocratic oath is named. Description: Connect content-area literacy and science with differentiated readers featuring lab activities and profiles of related scientitists... more
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Gilles Monif Md
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2011]
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Description: From its founding 1736, Bellevue Hospital has been a dumping ground into which a city poured its poor, elderly, and dying. What makes the oldest hospital in the United States unique is that Bellevue is a place from which no one in need is turned away. Bellevue Diary is... more
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David P Clark
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2010]
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""Clear, thoughtful, and thought-provoking, "Germs, Genes & Civilization" makes the case that infectious diseases have played a major role in shaping society. Clark argues that religion, morals, and even democracy have all been influenced by the smallest and most dangerous organisms on our planet. While you may not accept every... more
