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What Is Medical History
John C. Burnham
Paperback - $41.95
The field of the history of medicine and health has expanded spectacularly in recent times. In What is Medical History? John C. Burnham explores the reasons for this expansion, introducing medical history for those who know little of the subject. He ...
Fever of War : The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army During World War I
Carol R. Byerly
Paperback - $46.95
Fever of War examines the impact of the deadly 1918 influenza epidemic on the Ammrican army, its medical officers, and their profession. The targedy begins with overly confident medical officers whose inflated sense of their ability to prevent diseas ...
Medicine and the Five Senses
W. F. Bynum
Paperback - $128.95
From the days of Hippocratic 'bedside medicine' to the advent of the CAT scanner, doctors have always relied on their senses in diagnosing and treating disease. Medical education, from the apprenticeship, to the rise of the laboratory, has sought to ...
The Western Medical Tradition : 1800-2000
W. F. Bynum
Hardcover - $187.95
Written by leading experts who not only describe the most important people, events, and transformations, but give explanations for why medicine developed as it did, this new edition contains one of the first historical summaries of the development of ...
The Western Medical Tradition : 1800-2000
W. F. Bynum
Paperback - $62.95
Written by leading experts who not only describe the most important people, events, and transformations, but give explanations for why medicine developed as it did, this new edition contains one of the first historical summaries of the development of ...
An American Health Dilemma, Volume II, Race, Medicine, and Health Care in the United States 1900-2000
W. Michael Byrd
Hardcover - $70.95
Backed by exhaustive research, Byrd and Clayton argue that healthcare racism is a systemic, culturally embedded problem that in the last hundred years has been marked by small gains, disastrous setbacks, and a passive acceptance of African Americans ...
An American Health Dilemma : A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race
W. Michael Byrd
Hardcover - $107.95
"An American Health Dilemma" presents a comprehensive, groundbreaking history of race, race relations and the African-American medical experience. It offers an extensive exam of the history of intellectual and scientific racism that evolved to give s ...