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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 € -
Scurvy(2021) BOWN, STEPHEN R.The story of how three individuals conquered the plague of the seaVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
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 € -
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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Madness in Civilization(2020) SCULL, ANDREW‘A brilliant cultural history … Scull’s book fills a gap in the literature and deserves to be widely read … outstanding’ The TimesVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
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: Mehka92,52 € -
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: Trda59,36 € -
Public Health(2016) BERRIDGE, VIRGINIA (DIRECTOR AT THE CENTRE FOR HISTORY IN PUBLIC HEALTH, LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE)This Very Short Introduction outlines the nature of public health in our world today and places public health in its historical context from the earliest times, analysing in particular the changes in public health regulation through the nineteenth centuryVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Plague(2021) SLACK, PAUL (EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF EARLY MODERN SOCIAL HISTORY, OXFORD UNIVERSITY)Throughout history plague has caused some of the greatest periods of hardship for humanity, from the Black Death to the Great Plague of London. This book explores the causes of plague, the presence of plague in art and literature, and the lasting impact oVezava: Mehka14,01 €







