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Minds Behind the Brain
Oxford University Press, USA 2004; US$ 22.99Preface. 1. Introduction: A Voyage Across Time. 2. An Ancient Egyptian Physician: The Dawn of Neurology. 3. Hippocrates: The Brain as the Organ of the Mind. 4. Galen: The Birth of Experimentation. 5. Andreas Vesalius: The New "Human" Neuroanatomy. 6. Rene Descartes: The Mind-Body Problem. 7. Thomas Willis: The Functional Organization of the... more...
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 16.00Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells?taken without her knowledge?became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first ?immortal? human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for... more...
Mission and Method
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 46.00This book argues that the french led the way in the nineteenth-century public health movement. more...
Traumatic Pasts
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 30.00The essays in this book trace the origins of ongoing heated debates regarding trauma. more...
Multiple Sclerosis - The History of a Disease
Demos Medical Publishing 2005; US$ 29.95Multiple Sclerosis: The History of a Disease won a 2005 ForeWord Book of the Year Silver Medal! Click here to learn more about the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards. The basic facts about multiple sclerosis are well known: it is the most common neurologic disease of young adults, usually beginning with episodic attacks of neurologic symptoms, then entering... more...
William Osler
Oxford University Press, USA 1999; US$ 19.99William 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... more...
The Pain Chronicles
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010; US$ 17.99Each of us will know physical pain in our lives, but none of us knows when it will come or how long it will stay. Today as much as 10 percent of the population of the United States suffers from chronic pain. It is more widespread, misdiagnosed, and undertreated than any major disease. While recent research has shown that pain produces pathological... more...
Witches, Midwives, & Nurses
The Feminist Press at CUNY 2010; US$ 8.95A bestseller for decades, this contemporary classic gets a substantial new introduction by the authors. more...
The Lobotomy Letters
Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd 2013; US$ 19.69The rise and widespread acceptance of psychosurgery constitutes one of the most troubling chapters in the history of modern medicine. By the late 1950s, tens of thousands of Americans had been lobotomized as treatment for a host of psychiatric disorders. Though the procedure would later be decried as devastating and grossly unscientific, many patients,... more...
The London Clinic
Royal Society of Medicine Press 2007; US$ 69.00This unique title gives a detailed and fascinating account of the history surrounding the development of the London Clinic. Established in 1932 by a group of Harley Street doctors, the London Clinic was originally set up to provide inpatient facilities and accommodate a need of pathology, nursing care, physiotherapy and invasive procedures for Harley... more...









