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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 €
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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 €
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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: Trda152,40 €
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Aristotle on Matter, Form, and Moving Causes(2019) HENRY, DEVIN (UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO)Articulates, develops, and significantly revises the traditional interpretation of Aristotle's theory of generation, thereby improving our understanding of how the doctrine of form and matter - hylomorphism - informs his understanding of how new substanceVezava: Trda152,40 €
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Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology(2021) 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: Mehka86,61 €
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Taste for Poison(2022) BRADBURY, NEIL’Indecently entertaining.’ A Daily Mail Book of the Week An Amazon US Best Book of 2022 'A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains.' — Kathy ReichsVezava: Mehka15,41 €
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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 €
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History of Delusions(2022) SHEPHERD, VICTORIAThe extraordinary worlds created in our mindsVezava: Trda23,82 €
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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: Mehka23,82 €
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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 €
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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 €
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Genetics in the Madhouse(2020) PORTER, THEODORE M.The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredityIn the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admissionVezava: Mehka40,39 €