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Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine
Amanda Carson Banks
Paperback - $54.95
A fascinating study of how birthing methods have evolved and how key practices have returned.
Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts : China, Healing, and the West to 1848
Linda L. Barnes
Hardcover - $116.95
When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the "rediscovery" of Chinese acupuncture in the 1970s. In "Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts, Linda Barnes leads us back, instead, to the thirteenth century to uncover t ...
Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts : China, Healing, and the West to 1848
Linda L. Barnes
Paperback - $39.95
When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the "rediscovery" of Chinese acupuncture in the 1970s. In "Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts," Linda Barnes leads us back, instead, to the thirteenth century to uncover ...
Conception Control and Its Effects on the Individual and the Nation (Dodo Press)
Florence E. Barrett
Paperback - $22.95
Written in response to many requests for some statement regarding the individual and national effects of the widespread practice of conception control. By a Consulting Obstetric and Gyn?cological Surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital, and President of t ...
The Great Influenza : The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
John M. Barry
Paperback - $27.95
At the height of WWI, historys most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS kille ...
Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions
Don Bates
Paperback - $86.95
However much the three great traditions of medicine-- Galenic, Chinese and Ayurvedic--differed from each other, they had one thing in common: scholarship. The foundational knowledge of each could only be acquired by careful study under teachers relyi ...
The Eradication of Smallpox : Edward Jenner and the First and Only Eradication of a Human Infectious Disease
Herve Bazin
Hardcover - $164.95
Simply, and with great humanity, The Eradication of Smallpox tells the story of smallpox - it's origins, the horror of the disease, and the millions of people killed or disfigured by it. During the 18th and 19th centuries, it is estimated that one ou ...
Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem
W. K. R. Bedford
Paperback - $44.95
Being a history of the English hospitallers of St. John, their rise and progress. Contents: foundation of the Order; Cyprus and Rhodes; the Order in England; Malta and the great siege; Grand Masters of Malta; English revival; ambulance movement; Char ...
Health Culture in the Heartland, 1880-1980 : An Oral History
Lucinda McCray Beier
Paperback - $39.95