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Gynecology

Public Health

Rhetoric of Pregnancy

Seigel Marika

ISBN: HB: 9780226071916, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 17 line drawings

It is a truth widely acknowledged that if you're pregnant and can afford one, you're going to pick up a pregnancy manual. From "What to Expect When You're Expecting" to "Pregnancy for Dummies", these guides act as portable mentors for women who want...

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History

Great Medical Discoveries An Oxford Story

Keating Conrad

ISBN: PB: 9781851240036, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2013
96 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 colour illus.

The "miracle drug" penicillin was first given intravenously to a patient in Oxford on 12 February 1941, leading to a transformation in the way that bacterial infection is understood and treated. What was to become one of the greatest stories in biome...

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History

Wounded Storyteller Body, Illness, and Ethics (Second Edition)

Frank Arthur W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226004976, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
260 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Since it was first published in 1995, "The Wounded Storyteller" has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective portrait of a so-called "remission society" of those who suffer from some type of illness or disability an...

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Popular Science

Pharmacy

Drug Book: From Arsenic to Xanax 250 Milestones in the History of Drugs

Gerald Michael C.

ISBN: HB: 9781402782640, GMC Group, Sterling, August 2013
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

Throughout history, humans everywhere have searched for remedies to heal our bodies and minds. Covering everything from ancient herbs to cutting-edge chemicals, this book in the hugely popular Milestones series looks at 250 of the most important mome...

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History

Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine

Cooter Roger, Stein Claudia

ISBN: HB: 9780300186635, Yale University Press, July 2013
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

A collection of ten essays paired with substantial prefaces, this book chronicles and contextualizes Roger Cooter's contributions to the history of medicine. Through an analysis of his own work, Cooter critically examines the politics of conceptual a...

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Neurology

Fatal Flaws How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain

Ingram Jay

ISBN: HB: 9780300189896, Yale University Press, April 2013
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 7 black&white illus.

Discovered and identified as the cause of mad cow disease only three decades ago, the prion is a protein molecule that, when misshapen in the brain, becomes fatal. Novel and controversial, prions have provoked a scientific revolution. They challenge...

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Genetics

Technology & Engineering

Genentech The Beginnings of Biotech

Smith Hughes Sally

ISBN: PB: 9780226045511, ISBN: HB: 9780226359182, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, April 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit,...

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Genetics

Genomes and What to Make of Them

Barnes Barry, Dupre John

ISBN: PB: 9780226054568, ISBN: HB: 9780226172958, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
288 pp., 23x15 cm

The announcement in 2003 that the Human Genome Project had completed its map of the entire human genome was heralded as a stunning scientific breakthrough: our first full picture of the basic building blocks of human life. Since then, boasts about th...

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History

Knowledge in the Time of Cholera The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

Whooley Owen

ISBN: PB: 9780226017631, ISBN: HB: 9780226017464, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 1 map, 7 halftones

Vomiting. Diarrhea. Dehydration. Death. Confusion. In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. For the rest of the century, epidemics swept through American cities and towns like wildfire, kil...

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Sign Language

Public Health

Surgical Consent Bioethics and Cochlear Implantation

Komesaroff Linda

ISBN: PB: 9781563685835, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
208 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 7 tables

With the rate of cochlear implantation reaching 80% to 90% of all deaf children, some as young as five months old, "Surgical Consent: Bioethics and Cochlear Implantation" arrives at a critical juncture. This comprehensive collection features essays b...

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