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  • Untersuchungen zur hippokratischen Schrift "Über die alte Heilkunst"by Brice Maucolin

    De Gruyter 2009; US$ 126.00

    This study takes as its subject the polemical text attributed to Hippocrates On Ancient Medicine , which challenges the views of the causes and treatment of illness prevalent at the time of its composition (around 400 BC). The main emphasis of the study is placed on the analysis of the author?s scientific polemic. With this approach, a text which has... more...

  • 300 Jahre Charité - im Spiegel ihrer Instituteby Karl Max Einhäupl

    Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2010; US$ 84.00

    Im Berliner Wissenschaftsjahr 2010 wird die Charité, das größte Universitätsklinikum Europas, ihr 300-jähriges Jubiläum feiern. Zu diesem Anlass entstand der vorliegende Band „Charité 300 - Geschichte, Gegenwart, Horizonte". Es zeigt, wie aus dem 1710 als Pesthaus vor den Toren Berlins gegründeten Krankenhaus... more...

  • Der zweite Blickby Beate Kunst; Gottfried Bogusch; Thomas Schnalke

    De Gruyter 2010; US$ 84.00

    Wax anatomical models, pathological specimens, obstetrical instruments, art objects, manuscripts: Since 2002 scientists and curators of the collection of the Medical History Museum of the Charité in Berlin have presented special objects. 15 contributions have been selected to serve as examples in this book. more...

  • Classic Descriptions of Diseaseby Ralph Major

    Charles C Thomas 1978; US$ 107.95

    By Ralph H. Major. This text presents two hundred and eighty-seven selections from the original, epoch making accounts of authorities whose contributions and discoveries have furnished the foundation of our knowledge of clinical medicine. The articles included are the first known, one of the earliest, or one of the most interesting accounts of the... more...

  • Medicine in the Remote and Rural North, 1800-2000by J T H Connor; Stephan Curtis

    Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2011; US$ 99.00

    This volume of thirteen essays focuses on the health and treatment of the peoples of northern Europe and North America over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. more...

  • Practising Colonial Medicineby Anna Crozier

    I.B.Tauris 2007; US$ 89.00

    The role of the Colonial Medical Service - the organisation responsible for healthcare in British overseas territories - goes to the heart of the British Colonial project. "Practising Colonial Medicine" is a unique study based on original sources and research into the work of doctors who served in East Africa. It shows the formulation of... more...

  • Achievements in Medicine 1974-1989by T.K. Chan

    Hong Kong University Press 1989; US$ 24.00

    This commemorative volume has been prepared by the teaching staff of the Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, in honour of Professor david Todd, as a tribute to his distinguished tensure as Head of the Department of Medicine from 1974-1989. In addition to his biography and curriculum viate, achievements in each subspecialty of Medicine... more...

  • Making and Marketing Medicine in Renaissance Florenceby James Shaw; Evelyn Welch

    Editions Rodopi 2011; US$ 72.00

    What did you do when you fell ill in fifteenth-century Florence? How did you get the medicines that you needed at a price you could afford? What would you find when you entered an apothecary’s shop? This richly detailed study of the Speziale al Giglio in Florence provides surprising answers, demonstrating the continued importance of highly personalised... more...

  • Modern Medicine in the Holy Landby Yaron Perry; Efraim Lev

    I.B.Tauris 2007; US$ 89.00

    "Modern Medicine in the Holy Land" provides an in-depth assessment of the pioneering work of British Hospitals in Palestine in the nineteenth century, and finds these institutions made great contributions to the modernization of the country. The large numbers of Europeans, spearheaded by British missionaries, who began to visit Palestine... more...

  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicineby Mark Jackson

    OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 149.99

    The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. In recent decades, the history of medicine has emerged as a rich and mature sub-discipline within history, but the strength of the field has not precluded vigorous debates about methods, themes, and sources. Bringing together over... more...