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Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2011; US$ 99.00This study, based on extensive use of eighteenth-century newspapers, hospital registers and case notes, examines the experience of suffering from nervous disease a supposedly upper-class malady. Beatty concludes that nervousness was a legitimate medical diagnosis with a firm basis in eighteenth-century medical theory. more...
The Rise And Fall Of Modern Medicine
Little, Brown Book Group 2011; Not AvailableThe medical achievements of the post-war years rank as one of the supreme epochs of human endeavour. Advances in surgical technique, new ideas about the nature of disease and huge innovations in drug manufacture vanquished most common causes of early death, But, since the mid-1970s the rate of development has slowed, and the future of medicine is uncertain.... more...
The Rise And Fall Of Modern Medicine
Little, Brown Book Group 2011; US$ 29.89The medical achievements of the post-war years rank as one of the supreme epochs of human endeavour. Advances in surgical technique, new ideas about the nature of disease and huge innovations in drug manufacture vanquished most common causes of early death, But, since the mid-1970s the rate of development has slowed, and the future of medicine is uncertain.... more...
Officina Hippocratica
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 154.00It has long been appreciated that ancient medicine, and above all Hippocrates and Galen, played a significant role in the development of medicine until the Age of Enlightenment, and the last forty years have for the first time seen detailed research into questions related to this. For an adequate understanding of this instructive and powerful influence... more...
Flies in the Ointment Medical Quacks, Quirks and Oddities
HarperCollins Publishers 2010; US$ 14.49After their successful books What Killed Jane Austen? and How Isaac Newton Lost his Marbles, Dr Leavesley and Dr Biro turn their attention once again to a new collection of medical mysteries and marvels. Written with Leavesley and Biro's clinical flair and knack for diagnosing the truth, Flies in the Ointment: Medical Quacks, Quirks and Oddities... more...
How Isaac Newton Lost His Marbles And More Medical Mysteries, Marvels and Mayhem
HarperCollins Publishers 2010; US$ 14.49After their successful book speculating on What Killed Jane Austen, Dr Jim Leavesley and Dr George Biro turn their attention to How Isaac Newton Lost His Marbles and more medical mysteries. The life and death of this hypochondriac scientist is just one of over 50 intriguing stories of famous patients, doctors, medical experiments, disasters and triumphs. ... more...
The Heart of Power
University of California Press 2009; US$ 45.00Even the most powerful men in the world are human?they get sick, take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about ailing parents, and bury people they love. Young Richard Nixon watched two brothers die of tuberculosis, even while doctors monitored a suspicious shadow on his own lungs. John Kennedy received last rites four times as... more...
American Catholic Hospitals
Rutgers University Press 2011; US$ 45.95In American Catholic Hospitals, Barbra Mann Wall chronicles changes in Catholic hospitals during the twentieth century. Wall explores the Church's struggle to safeguard its religious values. As hospital leaders reacted to increased political, economic, and societal secularization, they extended their religious principles in the areas of universal... more...
Pills, Power, and Policy
University of California Press 2012; US$ 26.95Since the 1950s, the American pharmaceutical industry has been heavily criticized for its profit levels, the high cost of prescription drugs, drug safety problems, and more, yet it has, together with the medical profession, staunchly and successfully opposed regulation. Pills, Power, and Policy offers a lucid history of how the American drug industry... more...
A Brief History of Bad Medicine
Constable & Robinson 2012; US$ 13.11A doctor removes the normal, healthy side of a patient's brain instead of the malignant tumor. A man whose leg is scheduled for amputation wakes up to find his healthy leg removed. These recent examples are part of a history of medical disasters and embarrassments as old as the profession itself. In A Brief History of Bad Medicine, Robert... more...









