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  • Raw Material

    Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture

    di Erin O'Connor ...
    Serie series Body, commodity, text
    Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrializing England’s relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, Erin O’Connor explores “the industrial logic of disease,” the dynamic that coupled pathology and production in Victorian ... Altre info

    24,95 €

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  • The Emperor of All Maladies

    A Biography of Cancer

    di Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence.Now ... Altre info

    19,16 €

  • Ending Medical Reversal

    Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives

    di Vinayak K. Prasad, Adam S. Cifu ...
    Why medicine adopts ineffective or harmful medical practices only to abandon them—sometimes too late.Medications such as Vioxx and procedures such as vertebroplasty for back pain are among the medical "advances" that turned out to be dangerous or useless. What Dr. Vinayak K. Prasad and Dr. Adam S. Cifu call medical reversal happens when doctors start using a medication, procedure, or diagnostic ... Altre info

    21,21 €

  • A Heavy Reckoning

    War, Medicine and Survival in Afghanistan and Beyond

    di Emily Mayhew ...
    What happens when you reach the threshold of life and death - and come back?As long as humans have lived on the planet, there have been wars, and injured soldiers and civilians. But today, as we engage in wars with increasingly sophisticated technology, we are able to bring people back from ever closer encounters with death.Historian Emily Mayhew explores the reality of medicine and injury in ... Altre info

    10,60 €

  • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

    A Medical History of Humanity

    di Roy Porter ...
    This edition does not include illustrations.A definitive study of the history of medicine, from the earliest humans to the present day.Medicine is advancing at an incredible rate. We now have the ability to overcome sickness but also to transform the nature of life itself: in many parts of the world, human existence has simply ceased to be ‘nasty, brutish and short’. In this titanic history of ... Altre info

    22,97 €

  • Wounds in the Middle Ages

    di Anne Kirkham, Cordelia Warr ...
    Serie series The History of Medicine in Context
    Wounds were a potent signifier reaching across all aspects of life in Europe in the middle ages, and their representation, perception and treatment is the focus of this volume. Following a survey of the history of medical wound treatment in the middle ages, paired chapters explore key themes situating wounds within the context of religious belief, writing on medicine, status and identity, and ... Altre info

    75,48 €

  • The Biology of Homosexuality

    di Jacques Balthazart, PhD ...
    Serie series Oxford Series in Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
    In this fascinating book, Jacques Balthazart presents a simple description of the biological mechanisms that are involved in the determination of sexual orientation in animals and also presumably in humans. Using scientific studies published over the last few decades, he argues that sexual orientation, both homosexual and heterosexual, is under the control of embryonic endocrine and genetic ... Altre info

    61,87 €

  • The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism

    di Alice Kuzniar ...
    Homeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann who ardently proposed that "like cures like," counter to the conventional treatment of prescribing drugs that have the opposite effect to symptoms.Alice A. Kuzniar critically examines the alternative medical practice of homeopathy within the Romantic culture in which it arose. In The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of ... Altre info

    27,86 €

  • Blood on Their Hands

    How Greedy Companies, Inept Bureaucracy, and Bad Science Killed Thousands of Hemophiliacs

    di Donna Shaw, Eric Weinberg ...
    A few short years after HIV first entered the world blood supply in the late 1970s and early 1980s, over half the hemophiliacs in the United States were infected with the virus. But this was far more than just an unforeseeable public health disaster. Negligent doctors, government regulators, and Big Pharma all had a hand in this devastating epidemic.Blood on Their Hands is an inspiring, firsthand ... Altre info

    27,13 €

  • The Polio Hole

    di Shelley Mickle ...
    As a five-year-old, Shelley Fraser is known for mischief.On Halloween in l949, she fancies her brother's devil costume and persuades her mother to hem it up for her. But her plan to scare the total baloney out of the neighbor's babies backfires.At kindergarten, she throws a six-year-old birthday party never to be forgotten, falls in love at juice time, and learns to read.Six weeks into first grade ... Altre info

    3,99 € o Gratuito con Kobo Plus

  • A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume II of II) : From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time

    di Charles Creighton ...
    A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume II of II) : From the Extinction of Plague to the Present TimeThis volume is the continuation of ‘A History of Epidemics in Britain from a.d. 664 to the Extinction of Plague’, and is the completion of the history to the present time. The two volumes may be referred to conveniently as the first and second of a ‘History of Epidemics in Britain.’ In adhering ... Altre info

    2,67 €

  • The Afterlife of Images

    Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West

    di Ari Larissa Heinrich, Arjun Appadurai, Judith Farquhar ...
    Serie series Body, Commodity, Text
    In 1739 China’s emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way to Europe, where they were interpreted as indicative of the ill health and medical backwardness of the Chinese. In the mid-nineteenth century, the celebrated Cantonese painter Lam Qua collaborated with ... Altre info

    22,87 €