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Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen
University of California Press 2003; US$ 80.00The Huang Di nei jing su wen, known familiarly as the Su wen, is a seminal text of ancient Chinese medicine, yet until now there has been no comprehensive, detailed analysis of its development and contents. At last Paul U. Unschuld offers entry into this still-vital artifact of China?s cultural and intellectual past. Unschuld traces the history... more...
"Our Gallant Doctor"
Dundurn 2007; US$ 35.00On September 13, 1942, HMCS Ottawa was sunk by a German U-boat. Dr. George Hendry, exhausted from hours of difficult surgery, was lost, along with many others. more...
200 Jahre Psychiatrie an der Universität Leipzig
Springer 2005; US$ 47.99Leipzig als Wiege der akademischen Psychiatrie Wussten Sie, dass der Ursprung der zwei Jahrhunderte umfassenden Entwicklung der akademischen Psychiatrie nicht etwa in Paris, in Berlin oder Edinburgh liegt, sondern in Leipzig? Dort wurde als erster Lehrer f]r ein seelenheilkundliches Fach an einer Universitdt im Jahre 1811 Heinroth berufen. Damit beginnt... more...
24 hours to save the NHS
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 28.99"24 hours to save the NHS". It was a political slogan but it hid a deeper question. Could the NHS survive? Could it continue to offer free health care for every citizen regardless of their ability to pay? Could the extraordinary, liberating ambition and dream of its founders 50 years before be maintained in the 21st Century - that everyone,... more...
300 Jahre Charité - im Spiegel ihrer Institute
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2010; US$ 84.00Im 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...
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...
Achievements in Medicine 1974-1989
Hong Kong University Press 1989; US$ 24.00This 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...
Acres of Skin
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 45.95At a time of increased interest and renewed shock over the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, Acres of Skin sheds light on yet another dark episode of American medical history. In this disturbing expose, Allen M. Hornblum tells the story of Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. more...
Addicts Who Survived
University of Tennessee Press 2013; US$ 27.95The authors employ the techniques of oral history to penetrate the nether world of the drug user, giving us an engrossing portrait of life in the drug subculture during the "classic" era of strict narcotic control. Praise for the hardcover edition: "A momentous book which I feel is destined to become a classic in the category... more...
The Administration of Sickness
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 95.00This book is the first comprehensive study of French medicine in nineteenth-century Algeria. It argues that the medicalization was a priority for colonial regimes, but this goal was thwarted by ineffectual French medicine, institutional rivalries, and the manner in which medicine became a focus for the resistance of French domination and rule. more...









