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Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 124.95Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt investigates the use of medicine as a 'tool of Empire' to serve the state building processes in Egypt by the British colonial administration, which effectively transformed Egyptian medical practice and medical knowledge in ways that were decidedly gendered. The book shows how the introduction... more...
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Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 58.99Brown-Seguard: An Improbable Genius Who Transformed Medicine traces the strange career of an eccentric, restless, widely admired, nineteenth-century physician-scientist who eventually came to be scorned by antivivisectionists for his work on animals, by churchgoers who believed that he encouraged licentious behavior, and by other scientists for his... more...
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A Cretan Healer's Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition
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