Zbirka: Zgodovina medicine
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British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860–1918(2017) BROCK, CLAIRE (UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER)Drawing upon a rich archive, Brock explores the cultural, social and self-representation of the woman surgeon in Britain from 1860 to the end of the Great War. This book is essential reading for those interested in medical history, providing wide-rangingVezava: Trda157,27 € -
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 € -
Remarkable Story of Vaccines(2022) BEGG, NORMANThis remarkable book tells you everything you need to know about vaccines. Having nearly 40 years’ experience of the subject, the author covers the history of vaccines, how they work, how research is carried out, their safety, how they are used in societyVezava: Mehka49,41 € -
Best Medicine(2022) KLASS, PERRI (NEW YORK UNIVERSITY)The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring and the way we liveVezava: Mehka24,94 € -
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 € -
Short History of Disease(2022) MARTIN, SEANA Short History of Disease chronicles the historical and geographical evolution of infectious and non-infectious diseases, from their prehistoric origins to the present. A new afterword explores the origins of Covid-19 and examines how governments acrossVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
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 € -
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 € -
Making Medicines(2005)Making Medicines is a concise, chronological discussion of the history of therapeutics and pharmacy from the Egyptians through to the present day. It focuses on the discovery and uses of medicines to treat illness through the ages, and the evolving role oVezava: Mehka51,32 € -
American Contagions(2022) WITT, JOHN FABIANA concise history of how American law has shaped—and been shaped by—the experience of contagionVezava: Mehka20,89 € -
Dangerous Medicine(2022) HALPERN, SYDNEY A.The untold history of America’s mid-twentieth-century program of hepatitis infection research, its scientists’ aspirations, and the damage the project caused human subjectsVezava: Trda47,52 € -
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 €
