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Blood
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 28.50Essence and emblem of life--feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times--human blood is now the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commerce. It is a commerce whose impact upon humanity rivals that of any other business--millions of lives have been saved by blood and its various derivatives,... more...
William Harvey
Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 29.95In 1628, the English physician William Harvey published his revolutionary theory of blood circulation. Offering a radical conception of the workings of the human body and the function of the heart, Harvey's theory overthrew centuries of anatomical and physiological orthodoxy and had profound consequences for the history of science. It also had... more...
Arabisk medicin
Aarhus University Press 2007; US$ 21.00Europa ser gerne sig selv som direkte arvtager til den klassiske antik. Men den europćiske renćssance kunne ikke have fundet sted uden araberne, der allerede i det 8.-9. ĺrhundrede overtog den grćsk-romerske videnskabelige arv. Mens antikkens medicin var ukendt i middelalderens Vesten, arbejdede araberne med at udvikle og opdatere arven med egne, persiske... more...
Raising the Dead
Birlinn 2012; US$ 8.44Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, "Frankenstein", introduced readers around the world to the concept of raising the dead through scientific procedures. Those who read the book were thrilled by this incredible Gothic adventure. Few, however, realised that Shelley's story had a basis in fact. What she imagined as her modern Prometheus was a serious pursuit... more...
How Everyone Became Depressed
Oxford University Press, USA 2013; US$ 21.99About one American in five receives a diagnosis of major depression over the course of a lifetime. That's despite the fact that many such patients have no mood disorder; they're not sad, but suffer from anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, or a tendency to obsess about the whole business. "There is a term for what they have," writes Edward... more...
History of the Charity Hospitals of Louisiana
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 159.95This book is the first definitive, descriptive history of the Charity Hospital System of Louisiana, a story of how poverty, politics, public health, public interest, race, gender, and class, shaped the long history of one of the most storied public healthcare systems in the state and nation, to be published in a single volume. Over a period of more... more...
Doctors Killed George Washington
Red Wheel Weiser 2002; US$ 16.95It's no joke that we are all fascinated by the medical profession and the people in it. With Doctors Killed George Washington , trivia mavens Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo explore accidental medical discoveries, medical follies, bizarre cures, and more. This titillating tome puts doctors and medical history under the microscope and exposes more than... more...
Contagionism and Contagious Diseases
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 140.00Understanding how ?contagion? and ?infection? have become powerful metaphors requires a historical reconstruction of this semantic field in the late 19th and early 20th century, when these concepts acquired a scientific meaning. The volume offers an interdisciplinary approach to the cultural history of contagionism between medical bacteriology, the... more...
Oxford Textbook of Infectious Disease Control
OUP Oxford 2013; US$ 119.99The Oxford Textbook of Infectious Disease Control: A Geographical Analysis from Medieval Quarantine to Global Eradication is a comprehensive analysis of spatial theory and the practical methods used to prevent the geographical spread of communicable diseases in humans. Drawing on current and historical examples spanning seven centuries from across... more...
Dellmann's Textbook of Veterinary Histology
Wiley 2013; US$ 106.99The leading veterinary histology text returns with a fully updated sixth edition. Written in a concise, easy-to-understand that's a pleasure to read, this new edition continues the student-friendly tradition originated by Dr. Dellman, presenting the basics of histology including cytology and microscopic anatomy. The Sixth Edition focuses on the most... more...









