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Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion : A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles
Emily K. Abel
Paperback - $46.95
Creating the American Junkie : Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control
Caroline Jean Acker
Paperback - $52.95
"Acker presents a fascinating account of how addicts' negative image came to dominate public and official perceptions, as well as how it forced some users into the mold." -- New England Journal of Medicine
A Short History of Medicine
Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht
Paperback - $40.95
Since it was first published in 1955, A Short History of Medicine has been hailed as the best available book of its kind: a concise and readable introduction to the history of medicine, written for students and professionals alike. This new, revised ...
Medicine by Design : The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943
Annmarie Adams
Paperback - $57.95
Medical Firsts : From Hippocrates to the Human Genome
Robert E. Adler
Hardcover - $39.95
" Each disease has a nature of its own, and none arises without its natural cause." With this simple, yet revolutionary idea, the Greek physician Hippocrates laid the foundation for modern medicine over two millennia ago. Of course, prior t ...
Introduction to the History of Medical and Veterinary Mycology
G. C. Ainsworth
Paperback - $82.95
This book is the first to give a well-documented, illustrated survey of the historical background to disease caused by fungi in man and domesticated animals. Medical and veterinary mycology includes the study of infectious diseases caused by actinomy ...
Life History of Cardiovascular Disease and Its Risk Factors : Multistate Life Table Approach and Application to the Framingham Heart Study
Abdullah Al Mamun
Paperback - $68.95
This book aims at contributing to the study of chronic diseases and the debate on compression versus expansion of morbidity by applying a new methodology that integrates demography and epidemiology and by deriving indicators of cardiovascular disease ...
Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia : Public Health and Urban Disaster
John T. Alexander
Paperback - $109.95
John T. Alexander's study dramatically highlights how the Russian people reacted to the Plague, and shows how the tools of modern epidemiology can illuminate the causes of the plague's tragic course through Russia. Bubonic Plauge in Early Modern Russ ...
Who Goes First? the Story of Self-Experimentation
Lawrence K. Altman
Paperback - $52.95
This collection of stories of pioneering medical researchers provide readers with a look into the fascinating history of many of the most important medical advancements in recent years, and brings readers up to date on the ethics and controversies in ...