Zbirka: Zgodovina medicine
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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: Mehka20,31 € -
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: Mehka23,11 € -
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: Mehka21,02 € -
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: Mehka15,41 € -
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: Mehka19,63 € -
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: Mehka57,20 € -
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: Trda44,47 € -
Invention of the Modern Dog(2022) WORBOYS, MICHAEL (CHSTM, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER),STRANGE, JULIE-MARIE (PROFESSOR, DURHAM UNIVERSITY),PEMBERTON, NEIL (CHSTM, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER)Vezava: Mehka36,54 € -
Heraldry and Stained Glass at Apothecaries' Hall(2020) SHAND, WILLIAM,WALLINGTON-SMITH, ANDREWThe first comprehensive study of heraldry and stained glass in one of the oldest surviving Livery Halls of the City of London, dating from 1672.Vezava: Trda82,03 € -
Ignaz Semmelweis and the Vienna School of Medicine(2020) KADAR, NICHOLASBased on newly available documents and others translated for the first time, Nicholas Kadar sheds important new light on the thinking of the celebrated Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis at the Vienna School of Medicine, where he discovered the cause and pVezava: Trda150,48 € -
Why Talk About Madness?(2020) COLEBORNE, CATHARINEThis short book argues for the relevance of historical perspectives on mental health, exploring how these histories can and should inform debates about mental healthcare today.Vezava: Mehka41,57 € -
DSM(2021) HORWITZ, ALLAN V. (DEAN OF SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY)Vezava: Trda54,36 € -
Ending Medical Reversal(2019) PRASAD, VINAYAK K. (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE, NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE AND NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH),CIFU, ADAM S. (PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)Vezava: Mehka40,10 € -
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History of Global Health(2016) PACKARD, RANDALL M. (DIRECTOR, THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY)Designed to be read and taught, the book offers a critical historical view, providing historians, policy makers, researchers, program managers, and students with an essential new perspective on the formation and implementation of global-health policies anVezava: Mehka58,81 € -
Heart: A History - Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019(2019) SANDEEP JAUHARVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Making of a Tropical Disease(2011) PACKARD, RANDALL M. (DIRECTOR, THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY)Authoritative, fascinating, and eye-opening, this short history of malaria concludes with policy recommendations for improving control strategies and saving lives.Vezava: Mehka34,45 €
