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White Coat Tales
Springer 2010; US$ 15.99Features various chapters that present the many tales of legendary medical innovators, diseases that changed history, insightful clinical sayings, famous persons and their illnesses, and epic blunders made by physicians and scientists. This book highlights what health professionals should know about the career path they have chosen. more...
Influenza and Public Health
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 115.00Major influenza pandemics pose a constant threat. As evidenced by recent H5N1 avian flu and novel H1N1, influenza outbreaks can come in close succession, yet differ in their transmission and impact. With accelerated levels of commercial and population mobility, new forms of flu virus can also spread across the globe with unprecedented speed. Responding... more...
Patients and Practitioners
Cambridge University Press 1986; US$ 46.00The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness. more...
Abortion, Doctors and the Law
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 40.00This book focusses on the evolution of the law and medical practice of abortion in England. more...
Evidence and Interpretation in Studies on Early Science and Medicine
BRILL 2009; US$ 147.00Containing sixteen essays and a substantial introduction by noted historians of premodern science, this book provides a fresh look at divergent yet complementary traditions of interpreting the natural world, ranging from Greek mechanics to early modern Chinese theories of dragons. more...
Quality and Quantity
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 66.00An account of eugenicists' efforts to improve the inherited biological quality of the French population. more...
Science and Empire
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 52.00The story of East Coast fever, a lethal disease of cattle, and its scientific study. more...
Medicine in Society
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 47.00These essays synthesises many of the most significant findings of recent research from ancient Greece to the present day. more...
Explaining Epidemics
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 34.00Medicine until recently remained a history written by and for practitioners, these essays diverge from this tradition. 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...









