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The Witch in the Waiting Room : A Physician Examines Paranormal Phenomena in Medicine
Robert S. Bobrow
Paperback - $26.95
Telepathy, reincarnation, voodoo, and witchcraft are just a few examples of phenomena now defined as paranormal activity. But just because these marvels lie beyond the reach of current scientific explanation does not mean that future developments wil ...
Plagues & Poxes : The Impact of Human History on Epidemic Disease
Alfred Jay Bollett
Paperback - $47.95
- infectious diseases- non-infectious diseases- bioterrorism
A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities
Jan Bondeson
Paperback - $27.95
In this book of amazing oddities, Bondeson explores unexpected, gruesome, and bizarre aspects of the history of medicine--from stories of spontaneous human combustion to vicious tribes of tailed men to the fame of Julia Pastrana, exhibited around the ...
Becoming a Physician
Thomas Neville Bonner
Hardcover - $235.95
Written by eminent education scholar Thomas Neville Bonner, Becoming a Physician is a groundbreaking, comprehensive history of Western medical education. The only work of its kind, it covers the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany. Chal ...
Becoming a Physician : Medical Education in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1750-1945
Thomas Neville Bonner
Paperback - $43.95
"A lucid map of the changes in pedagogy over two hundred years in four major centres of learning in the western world." -- English Historical Review
The Medical Detectives : Revised Edition
Berton Boueche
Paperback - $26.95
Contains three fascinating tales of strange illnesses, rare diseases, poisons, and parasites--each tale a thriller of medical suspense by the incomparable Beron Roueche.
The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750-1820
Thomas H. Broman
Paperback - $82.95
By examining German university medicine between 1750 and 1820, this book presents a new interpretation of the emergence of modern medical science. It demonstrates that the development of modern medicine as a profession linking theory and practice did ...
Scurvy : How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
Stephen R. Brown
Paperback - $24.95
Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. The threat of the disease kept ships close to home and doomed those vessels that ventured too far from port. The willful ignorance of the ...