Zbirka: Zgodovina medicine
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In-Vitro Fertilization(2018)With thousands of IVF babies born every year, this science based memoir records the early history and pioneering spirit of in-vitro fertilization. Chapters by internationally-recognized specialists in the field record their personal views on the developmeVezava: Trda134,75 € -
World Health Organization(2019) CUETO, MARCOS,BROWN, THEODORE M. (UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK),FEE, ELIZABETHA history of the World Health Organization, covering major achievements in its seventy years while also highlighting the organization's internal tensions. This account by three leading historians of medicine examines how well the organization has pursuedVezava: Mehka62,73 € -
Patterns of Plague(2022) JONES, LORIThrough a comparative analysis of medical texts produced in England and France, Lori Jones reveals changing perceptions across four centuries. Using plague tracts to explore how medical and wider social understandings of the plague evolved, this innovativVezava: Mehka57,03 € -
Necropolis(2022) OLIVARIUS, KATHRYNIn antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were less equal. Kathryn Olivarius explores the resulting framework of “immunocapital.” For whites, immunity signaled creditworthiness. For enslavVezava: Trda33,09 € -
Medieval Islamic Medicine(2007) PORMANN, PETER (WELLCOME TRUST LECTURER IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK.),SAVAGE-SMITH, EMILIE (PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF ISLAMIC SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)An up-to-date survey of medieval Islamic medicine offering new insights to the role of medicine and physicians in medieval Islamic culture.Vezava: Mehka44,78 € -
British Dentist(2015) BAIRSTO, RACHELLooks at this whole grisly history as well as at the increasing professionalism seen from the late nineteenth century onwards, which has led to very dramatic improvements in dental treatment, including modern dentures, amalgam fillings, anaesthetics and oVezava: Mehka13,89 € -
Origins of AIDS(2021) PEPIN, JACQUES (UNIVERSITE DE SHERBROOKE, CANADA)It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and scientists. In this updated edition of his acclaimed book, Jacques Pépin traces the origins and amplification of AIDS, and describes the events that transforVezava: Mehka45,62 € -
Royal Art of Poison(2019) HERMAN, ELEANORThe story of poison is the story of power... The Royal Art of Poison is a hugely entertaining work of popular history that traces the use of poison as a political - and cosmetic - tool in the royal courts of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the KremVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Smile Stealers(2017) BARNETT, RICHARDAn incisive and startling international review of the evolution of dentistry from the Bronze Age to the present day, presented in a beautifully crafted book of cult appeal.Vezava: Trda35,05 € -
Bedlam(2019) CHAMBERS, PAULA new paperback edition of Paul Chambers' critically-acclaimed Victorian historyVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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Frances Burney and the Doctors(2019) WILTSHIRE, JOHN (LA TROBE UNIVERSITY, VICTORIA)This book advocates Frances Burney as the unconscious pioneer of the modern genre of pathograhy, or the illness narrative. It will appeal to readers with an interest in Frances Burney (both her writings and biographically), in medical history and literatuVezava: Trda160,51 € -
Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology(2026) SHORTER, EDWARD (PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AND HISTORY OF MEDICINE, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AND HISTORY OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO)In The Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology, esteemed historian Edward Shorter proposes that the recent history of psychiatry is that of a failed scientific discipline of medicine. Medicine generally is about the story of progress, but psychiatrVezava: Mehka87,38 € -
Taste for Poison(2022) BRADBURY, NEIL'Indecently entertaining' A Daily Mail Book of the WeekVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Empress and the English Doctor(2022) WARD, LUCYThe astonishing true story of how Catherine the Great joined forces with a Quaker doctor from Essex to spearhead a groundbreaking public health campaignVezava: Trda32,16 € -
Royal Hospital Haslar(2013) BIRBECK, ERIC,WARD, PHIL,RYDER, ANNThe photographs in this fascinating illustrated history will stir the memory of all those who have entered The Royal Hospital Haslar, as either staff or patients, and provide a unique record of a singular and celebrated institution.Vezava: Mehka32,23 € -
Ivan Pavlov(2014) TODES, DANIEL P. (PROFESSOR, INSTITUTE OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, PROFESSOR, INSTITUTE OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, BALTIMORE, MD)This is the first scholarly biography of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) in any language. Based upon a wealth of archival material, it weaves his life and science into some 100 years of Russian history and offers a fundamental reinterpretatioVezava: Trda55,49 €
