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The History of Scurvy and Vitamin C
Kenneth J. Carpenter
Paperback - $86.95
The first modern survey of the long and fascinating history of the various ideas and theories about the cause of scurvy, the nutritional deficiency disease that has caused (with the exception of famine) the most human suffering in recorded history. P ...
American Medicine and Statistical Thinking, 1800-1860
James H. Cassedy
Paperback - $38.95
This comprehensive narrative history of early and mid-nineteenth-century American medicine is also an important account of the rapid introduction of statistical methods during the same period.
Cassedy illuminates clinical medicine, public health, s ...
Medicine in America : A Short History
James H. Cassedy
Paperback - $54.95
"Well written, with a very useful bibliographical essay and index, this book can be recommended for medical and general readers alike."--Guenter B. Risse, M.D., Ph.D., Journal of the American Medical Association.
"The best brief history of health c ...
Fighting for Our Lives : New York's AIDS Community and the Politics of Disease
Susan Maizel Chambre
Paperback - $51.95
Medicine in England During the Reign of George III : The Fitzpatrick Lectures Delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, 1917-1918 (1919)
Arnold Chaplin
Paperback - $33.95
Bullets and Bacilli : The Spanish-American War and Military Medicine
Vincent J. Cirillo
Hardcover - $109.95
For each soldier killed in combat during the Spanish-American War, more than seven died from diseases such as typhoid fever and malaria-a rate higher than that of the Civil War. During a time of rapid medical innovation and discovery, why did these s ...
Legal Medicine in History
Michael Clark
Hardcover - $254.95
A collection of essays on the social history of legal medicine including case studies on infanticide, abortion, coroners' inquests and criminal insanity.
Modern Medicine : The New World Religion
Olivier Clerc
Paperback - $22.95
Put forth in this book is the assertion that medicine is actually ruled by a set of beliefs, myths, and rites of Christianity it has never freed itself from. Supporting this claim are discussions about the ways in which physicians have taken the plac ...
Stutter's Casebook : A Junior Hospital Doctor, 1839-1841
E. E. Cockayne
Paperback - $62.95
For most of his career W.G. Stutter (1815-77) was a respected general medical practitioner in the village of Wickhambrook, a small Suffolk backwater. As a younger man, however, he spent some time as House Apothecary and House Surgeon to the Suffolk G ...