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  • A Colonial Lexicon

    Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo

    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the “colonial encounter” paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, to reveal how concerns about strange new objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of ... Leer más

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  • Great Speeches

    Words that Shaped the World

    de John Boyes ...
    Great Speeches collects over forty of the most powerful and stirring addresses delivered in the English language.It captures the significant historical events of the past 400 years in the words of their participants, from those speeches given in times of war and sorrow, such as Winston Churchill's 'This Was Their Finest Hour', to those delivered at moments of hope, such as Barack Obama's election ... Leer más

    $34 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Medical Detective

    John Snow, Cholera And The Mystery Of The Broad Street Pump

    de Sandra Hempel ...
    In 1831, an unknown, horrifying and deadly disease from Asia swept across Continental Europe, killing millions in its path and throwing the medical profession into confusion. Cholera is a killer with little respect for class or wealth. When it arrived in Britain, its repercussions rocked Victorian England - from the filthy lanes of the Sunderland quayside and the squalid streets of Soho, to the ... Leer más

    $237 MXN

  • Legacy

    A Genetic History of the Jewish People

    Who are the Jews--a race, a people, a religious group? For over a century, non-Jews and Jews alike have tried to identify who they were--first applying the methods of physical anthropology and more recently of population genetics. In Legacy, Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist and authority on the genetics of the Jewish people, explores not only the history of these efforts, but also the insights ... Leer más

    $476 MXN

  • On Fractures (Mobi Classics)

    The Hippocratic Corpus (Latin: Corpus Hippocraticum) is a collection of around seventy early medical works from ancient Greece, written in Ionic Greek…..The Hippocratic Corpus contains textbooks, lectures, research, notes and philosophical essays on various subjects in medicine, in no particular order. These works were written for different audiences, both specialists and laymen, and were ... Leer más

    $17 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Beyond the Box

    B.F. Skinner's Technology of Behaviour from Laboratory to Life, 1950s-1970s

    B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) is one of the most famous and influential figures in twentieth century psychology. A best-selling author, inventor, and social commentator, Skinner was both a renowned scientist and a public intellectual known for his controversial theories of human behavior. Beyond the Box is the first full-length study of the ways in which Skinner's ideas left the laboratory to become ... Leer más

    $490 MXN

  • Fractured States

    Smallpox, Public Health and Vaccination Policy in British India

    Series series NPSAH
    This work provides a well rounded history of official smallpox measures and their links with the development of public health in policies and programmes in Brititsh India. It examines vaccination policy and technology from a political, economic and technical perspective as well as the cultural and religious implications of medical intervention in smallpox eradication. There is an exposition of the ... Leer más

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  • OCR GCSE History SHP: The Making of America 1789-1900

    de Alex Ford ...
    Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series, combining best practice teaching methods and worthwhile tasks to develop students' historical knowledge and skills.> Tackle unfamiliar topics with c ... Leer más

    $383 MXN

  • Medicine and the Saints

    Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956

    The colonial encounter between France and Morocco took place not only in the political realm but also in the realm of medicine. Because the body politic and the physical body are intimately linked, French efforts to colonize Morocco took place in and through the body. Starting from this original premise, Medicine and the Saints traces a history of colonial embodiment in Morocco through a series of ... Leer más

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  • Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine

    There was a time when birth was treated as a natural process rather than a medical condition. Before 1800, women gave birth seated in birth chairs or on stools and were helped along by midwives. Then societal changes in attitudes toward women and the practice of medicine made birthing a province of the male-dominated medical profession.In Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine, Amanda Carson Banks ... Leer más

    $311 MXN

  • Vanishing Bone

    Conquering a Stealth Disease Caused by Total Hip Replacements

    When dozens of holes appeared in a patient's femur alongside his hip prosthesis, experts were baffled as such a phenomenon had never been seen before. Over the first four decades of total hip surgery, the severe bone destruction multiplied, crippling many thousands of patients. Eventually identified as "periprosthetic osteolysis," this devastating disease affected over 1 million patients and was ... Leer más

    $345 MXN

  • Doing Good

    The Life of Toronto's General Hospital

    de J.T.H. Connor ...
    Series series Heritage
    A history of Toronto’s general hospital offers a window on a broader history of Upper Canada and Ontario over the last two centuries. In this lively and authoritative account, J.T.H. Connor traces the hospital’s two-hundred-year evolution, as its mandate to ‘do good’ forced constant adjustment to changing social, medical, and government attitudes.Doing Good presents the hospital’s history in three ... Leer más

    $535 MXN