Zbirka: Zgodovina medicine
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Murderous Contagion(2015) DOBSON, MARYThe human stories behind disease, plagues and epidemics and their deadly impact through history.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Blood and Guts(2016) HOLLINGHAM, RICHARDAccompanying a BBC series, Blood and Guts is an incredible story of stolen corpses, medical fraud, lobotomized patients - and every now and then courageous advances that have saved the lives of millions around the world. You may think twice before goingVezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Hidden Affliction(2019)Multidisciplinary collection of essays on the relationship of infertility and the "historic" STIs--gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis--producing surprising new insights in studies from across the globe and spanning millennia.Vezava: Trda223,95 € -
Book of Phobias and Manias(2022) SUMMERSCALE, KATEA thrilling compendium of our deepest fears and obsessions by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Rats, Lice and History(2017) ZINSSER, HANSFrom the pestilence which contributed to the downfall of Rome to the dancing manias of medieval Europe, the aristocracy’s fashion for wearing wigs and the role of typhus in the First World War, Hans Zinsser reveals just how disease and epidemics have shapVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Florence Nightingale at Home(2020) CRAWFORD, PAUL,GREENWOOD, ANNA,BATES, RICHARD,MEMEL, JONATHANAs a young woman, feeling imprisoned at home, she broke free to become a woman of action, bringing home comforts to the soldiers in the Crimean War and advising the British population on the home front how to create healthier, contagion-free homes.Vezava: Mehka41,57 € -
Abortion Care As Moral Work(2022)Brings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counsellors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and historians to discuss how and why providing abortion care is moral work. The collection offers voices not usually heard as cliniciansVezava: Mehka42,76 € -
Bartonellas and Peruvian Medicine(2019) ALARCON, GRACIELA S,ALARCON, RENATO DExplores the events surrounding the discovery of the etio-pathogenic agent of the Oroya Fever, also known as Peruvian Verruga or Carrión's disease by Dr. Alberto Leonardo Barton. Graciela S. Alarcón and Renato D. Alarcón recount Barton's persistent work aVezava: Mehka70,55 € -
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: Trda127,75 € -
End of Genetics(2022) GOLDSTEIN, DAVID B.An urgent plea for a broader understanding and awareness of the unconsidered dangers of new genetic technologiesVezava: Trda38,02 € -
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: Mehka58,93 € -
Atomic Doctors(2020) NOLAN, JAMES L., JR.Physicians were essential to the Manhattan Project, keeping participants and Americans near test sites safe from radiation. But they also downplayed the risks when military exigency demanded. James Nolan tells the story of these conflicted healers, who usVezava: Trda42,91 € -
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: Trda49,27 € -
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 € -
Scurvy(2021) BOWN, STEPHENThe 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 €
