Zbirka: Zgodovina medicine
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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: Trda123,83 € -
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: Mehka81,80 € -
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 € -
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 € -
Insulin - The Crooked Timber(2022) HALL, KERSTEN T. (SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS)One hundred years after a milestone medical discovery, 'Insulin - The Crooked Timber' tells the story of how insulin was transformed from what one clinician called 'thick brown muck' into the very first drug to be produced using genetic engineering, one wVezava: Trda61,76 € -
Geography of Infection(2022) SMALLMAN-RAYNOR, MATTHEW R. (HEAD OF SCHOOL AND PROFESSOR OF ANALYTICAL GEOGRAPHY, HEAD OF SCHOOL AND PROFESSOR OF ANALYTICAL GEOGRAPHY, SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM),CLIFF, ANDREW D. (EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF THEORETICAL GEOGRAPHY, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF THEORETICAL GEOGRAPHY, DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE; EMERITUS FELLOW, CHRIST'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE),ORD, J. KEITH (EMERITUS PROFESSOR, EMERITUS PROFESSOR, MCDONOUGH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY,),HAGGETT, PETER (PROFESSOR EMERITUS AND SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW IN URBAN AND REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY, PROFESSOR EMERITUS AND SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW IN URBAN AND REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY, SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL)Despite advances in modern medicine, the power of plagues to terrify, disrupt and bring huge swings in morbidity and mortality in their wake remains potent. A Geography of Infection explores the spatial mechanisms by which infectious diseases, such as meaVezava: Trda113,75 € -
Anecdotes and Antidotes(2020) USAYBI'AH, IBN ABIIbn Abi Usaybi'ah was a Syrian Arab physician of the 13th century who compiled a biographical encyclopedia of notable physicians, and scholars from the Greeks, Romans, Syriacs and Indians including Galen and Avicenna.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
HIV & AIDS(2016) WHITESIDE, ALAN (CIGI CHAIR IN GLOBAL HEALTH POLICY, BALSILLIE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND WILFRED LAURIER UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSOR EMERITUS UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL)HIV/ AIDS continues to be a major public health issue, affecting millions of sufferers worldwide. This Very Short Introduction explains the science, the international and local politics, the demographics, and the devastating consequences of the disease, aVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Hippocrates, Volume I(2022) HIPPOCRATESVolume I of the Loeb Hippocrates presents an exemplary selection of works by or attributed to the “Father of Medicine” that illustrate his fundamental contributions to the theory, philosophy, and practice of medicine. Included are Ancient Medicine; Airs,Vezava: Trda44,47 €
