Zbirka: Zgodovina medicine
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Ways of Knowing(2000) PICKSTONE, JOHN V.This classic MUP text discusses the historical development of science, technology and medicine in Western Europe and North America from the Renaissance to the present. Combining theoretical discussion and empirical illustration, it redefines the geographyVezava: Mehka25,83 € -
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Leprosy in Medieval England(2009) RAWCLIFFE, CAROLEA major reassessment, based on hitherto unpublished manuscript material, of a disease whose history has attracted more myths and misunderstandings than any other.Vezava: Mehka58,55 € -
Black Death(2009) HATCHER, JOHNHow the people of a typical English village lived and died in the worst epidemic in history.Vezava: Mehka17,61 € -
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Scourging Angel(2010) GUMMER, BENEDICTNothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease which killed millions of people in Medieval Europe. By the time it completed its pestilential journey through the British Isles iVezava: Mehka20,32 € -
Mad, Bad And Sad(2017) APPIGNANESI, LISA* 'In every generation there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy' Ian HackingVezava: Mehka20,32 € -
Medical Muses(2012) HUSTVEDT, ASTIA groundbreaking new book about the nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focussing on the renowned Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris.Vezava: Mehka20,32 € -
Giants(2013) KOREN, YEHUDA,NEGEV, EILATAn inspiring account of the Ovitz family & their time in Auschwitz.Vezava: Mehka13,54 € -
Hysteria: The Biography(2011) SCULLThe story of hysteria is a curious one, for it persists as an illness for centuries before disappearing. Andrew Scull gives a fascinating account of this socially constructed disease that came to be strongly associated with women, showing the shifts in soVezava: Mehka16,25 € -
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Madness(2003) PORTER, ROY (, FORMER PROFESSOR OF THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE, WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON)What has it been like to be insane? How have the mad been treated? Is madness real or is it just a label? This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the preseVezava: Mehka18,96 € -
Arsenic Century(2011) WHORTON, JAMES C. (PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE ,UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE)The story of arsenic in Victorian Britain, looking both at its widespread presence in everything from candles to curtains, and also its more sinister use for murder and suicide.Vezava: Mehka21,67 € -
Inconvenient People(2013) WISE, SARAHUncovers twelve shocking stories, untold for over a century and reveals the darker side of the Victorian upper and middle classes - their sexuality, fears of inherited madness, financial greed and fraudulence - and chillingly evoke the black motives at thVezava: Mehka20,32 € -
Smell of Burning(2017) GRANT, COLINHe shows us the famous people with epilepsy like Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc and Vincent van Gogh, the pioneering doctors whose extraordinary breakthroughs finally helped gain an understanding of how the brain works, and, through the tragic tale of his broVezava: Mehka14,90 € -
Rabid(2014) WASIK, BILL,MURPHY, MONICAThe most fatal virus known to science, rabies - a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans - kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. This book charts four thousand years of the history, scienceVezava: Mehka17,69 € -
LSD(2018) HOFMANN, ALBERT (DECEASED)Albert Hofmann, who died in 2008 aged 102, synthesised LSD in 1938. Although his work produced other important drugs, it was LSD that shaped his career. Shortly before his death, Hofmann approved a new and updated translation of his autobiography (first pVezava: Mehka54,76 € -
Hippocrates, Volume IX(2010) HIPPOCRATESOf the roughly seventy treatises in the Hippocratic Collection, many are not by Hippocrates (said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BC), but they are essential sources of information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theoVezava: Trda42,98 €
