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History of medicine. Medical expeditions

  • Mountains Beyond Mountainsby Tracy Kidder; Michael French

    Profile 2013; US$ 15.98

    Profound and powerful, Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba and Russia, as the charismatic but flawed genius Dr Paul Farmer challenges widely-held preconceptions about poverty and healthcare.As a medical student, Farmer found his life's calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern... more...

  • Padma: An Ancient Tibetan Herbal Formulaby Nan Kathryn Fuchs PhD

    Basic Health Publications 2013; US$ 2.49

    Learn how this ancient Tibetan formula reduces plaque in veins and arteries, and controls bacterial infections in the lungs that lead to asthma and allergies. more...

  • To Bear Witnessby Kevin M. Cahill

    Fordham University Press 2013; US$ 22.00

    For more than fifty years, Dr. Cahill has been helping to heal the world, as a leading specialist in tropical medicine and as a driving force in humanitarian assistance and relief efforts around the globe. In this revised and expanded edition, he chronicles extraordinary achievements of compassion and commitment. Bringing together a rich selection... more...

  • Angels of Mercyby Eileen Crofton

    Birlinn 2013; US$ 13.50

    This is the story of the wartime experiences of a group of women who ran a field hospital near the trenches during World War I, often under conditions of great hardship. The text draws on the women's diaries and letters home. The Scottish Women's Hospitals unit offered their services to France and opened a hospital in the ancient Abbey of Royaumont,... more...

  • Medieval Chinese Medicineby Christopher Cullen; Vivienne Lo

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 39.95

    In recent decades various versions of Chinese medicine have begun to be widely practised in Western countries, and the academic study of the subject is now well established. However, there are still few scholarly monographs that describe the history of Chinese medicine and there are none at all on the medieval period. This collection represents... more...

  • Traditional Chinese Medicine in the United Statesby Emily S. Wu

    Lexington Books 2013; US$ 74.99

    This book provides a historically, socially, and culturally-contextualized portrayal of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as a complementary and alternative medical profession in the United States. Through interviewing TCM practitioners, observing in TCM schools and clinics, and referencing on classical Chinese medical and philosophical sources,... more...

  • Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt:Ibn al-Nafis, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrectionby Nahyan Fancy

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 145.00

    The discovery of the pulmonary transit of blood was a ground-breaking discovery in the history of the life sciences, and a prerequisite for William Harvey?s fully developed theory of blood circulation three centuries later. This book is the first attempt at understanding Ibn al-Naf?s?s anatomical discovery from within the medical and theological works... more...

  • Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greeceby Steven M. Oberhelman

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 119.95

    This volume centers on dreams in Greek medicine from the fifth-century B.C.E. Hippocratic Regimen down to the modern era. Medicine is here defined in a wider sense than just formal medical praxis, and includes non-formal medical healing methods such as folk pharmacopeia, religion, ’magical’ methods (e.g., amulets, exorcisms, and spells),... more...

  • Medicine and the Reformationby Andrew Cunningham; Ole Peter Grell

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 136.00

    The tremendous changes in the role and significance of religion during Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation affected all of society. Yet, there have been few attempts to view medicine and the ideas underpinning it within the context of the period and see what changes it underwent. Medicine and the Reformation charts how both popular... more...

  • Disease and the Modern World: 1500 to the Present Dayby Mark Harrison

    Wiley 2013; US$ 29.95

    In this lively and accessible book, Mark Harrison charts the history of disease from the birth of the modern world around 1500 through to the present day. more...