Zbirka: Zgodovina medicine
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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 € -
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: Trda64,61 € -
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: Trda119,00 € -
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 € -
Generation. Nature of the Child. Diseases 4. Nature of Women. Barrenness(2012) HIPPOCRATESThis volume, the tenth of Hippocrates’ invaluable texts on the practice of medicine in antiquity, provides essential information about human reproduction and reproductive disorders and expounds a general theory of physiology and pathology, in five Greek tVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Tale of Two Viruses(2021) SANKARAN, NEERAJAThe first study of medical virology to compare the history of bacteriophages and sarcoma agents.Vezava: Trda101,73 € -
American Contagions(2022) WITT, JOHN FABIANA concise history of how American law has shaped—and been shaped by—the experience of contagionVezava: Mehka20,89 € -
Disorder(2022) SWENSON, PETER A.An incisive look into the problematic relationships among medicine, politics, and business in America and their effects on the nation's health.Vezava: Trda32,08 €
