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The Western Medical Tradition : 800 BC-1800 Ad
L. Conrad
Paperback - $107.95
The influence of Greek medical practices dating back to the fifth century B.C. has had an immeasurable impact on the development of medicine in the West over the subsequent centuries. This text is designed to cover the history of Western medicine fro ...
Tropical Medicine : An Illustrated History of the Pioneers
Gordon Cook
Hardcover - $113.95
This superbly illustrated work provides short accounts of the lives and scientific contributions of all of the major pioneers of Tropical Medicine. Largely biographical, the stories discussed enlighten a new generation of scientists to the advances m ...
Companion to Medicine in the Twentieth Century
Richard Cooter
Paperback - $138.95
In 1900, western medicine was important to philanthropy and public health, but it was marginal to the state, the industrial economy and the welfare of most individuals. It is now central to these aspects of life. Our prospects seem increasingly de ...
A History of the Schism in Medical Thought : Twentieth-Century Medicine
Harris L. Coulter
Hardcover - $81.95
Science and Empire : East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal
Paul F. Cranefield
Paperback - $107.95
East Coast fever is a lethal disease of cattle caused by a parasite. It affects and distorts lymph cells and causes them to behave like cells in leukemia and lymphoma. The disease was unknown to Western science or to veterinary practice until it was ...
Private Practice : In the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Office of Dr. Richard Cabot
Christopher Crenner
Hardcover - $96.95
The beginning of the twentieth century marked the rise of advanced medical technologies, allowing doctors to diagnose and treat diseases in new ways. Although American physicians accepted the validity of the new science of medicine, they were sometim ...
Historical Atlas of Dermatology and Dermatologists
John Thorne Crissey
Hardcover - $255.95
This superbly illustrated and fascinating history sheds new light on the emergence of dermatology as a separate medical specialty and on some of the key players who have contributed to its development. Ranging from the early Egyptian period to the pr ...
The American Plague : The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History
Molly Caldwell Crosby
Paperback - $24.95
In a summer of panic and death in 1878, more than half the population of Memphis, Tennessee, fled the yellow fever epidemic. In her account, Crosby profiles several scientists, some of whom died in their fight to identify the cause of this disease th ...
Practising Colonial Medicine : The Colonial Medical Service in British East Africa
Anna Crozier
Hardcover - $168.95
This unique study is based on original sources and research into the work of doctors who served in East Africa. Anna Crozier analyses all aspects of recruitment, qualifications, training as well as the vital personal factors that shaped the Service's ...