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Reinventing Depression : A History of the Treatment of Depression in Primary Care, 1940-2004
Christopher M. Callahan
Hardcover - $107.95
To inform future research, treatment, and policy decisions, this book traces the scientific and social developments that shaped the current treatment model for depression in primary care over the past half century. While new strategies for diagnosing ...
A History of Dialysis
J. Stewart Cameron
Hardcover - $209.95
This book tells the extraordinary story of how the function of the first- and so far almost the only- human organ was replaced by a machine, and the "artificial kidney" entered medical and public folk-lore. A practical articial kidney, or dialyser, c ...
Anglo Saxon Medicine
Malcolm Laurence Cameron
Hardcover - $210.95
This is the first book to make a comprehensive study of Old English medical texts. Professor Cameron compares Anglo-Saxon medical practice with that of the Greeks and Romans from whom the Anglo-Saxons borrowed freely. He analyses the position of phys ...
Anglo-Saxon Medicine
Malcolm Laurence Cameron
Paperback - $86.95
This is the first book to make a comprehensive study of Old English medical texts. Professor Cameron compares Anglo-Saxon medical practice with that of the Greeks and Romans from whom the Anglo-Saxons borrowed freely. He analyses the position of phys ...
The Normal and the Pathological
Georges Canguilhem
Paperback - $32.95
"The Normal and the Pathological is one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in the last half century. Canguilhem analyzes the radically new way in which health and disease were defined in the early nineteenth century, showing that ...
The Medical Profession in Upper Canada, 1783-1850 : An Historical Narrative, with Original Documents Relating to the Profession (1894)
William Canniff
Paperback - $80.95
Health, Disease, and Illness : Concepts in Medicine
Arthur L. Caplan
Paperback - $86.95
In the 1850s, "Drapetomania" was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desire to run away from their masters. In earlier centuries gout was understood as a metabolic disease of th ...
Books of the Body : Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning
Andrea Carlino
Hardcover - $75.95
We usually see the Renaissance as a marked departure from older traditions, but Renaissance scholars often continued to cling to the teachings of the past. For instance, despite the evidence of their own dissections, which contradicted ancient and me ...
Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B
Kenneth J. Carpenter
Hardcover - $117.95
In this comprehensive account of the history and treatment of beriberi, Kenneth J. Carpenter traces the decades of medical and chemical research that solved the puzzle posed by this mysterious disease. Caused by the lack of a minute quantity of the c ...