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Genetics

Heredity under the Microscope Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome

de Chadarevian Soraya

ISBN: PB: 9780226685113, ISBN: HB: 9780226685083, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones

By focusing on chromosomes, "Heredity under the Microscope" offers a new history of postwar human genetics. Today chromosomes are understood as macromolecular assemblies and are analyzed with a variety of molecular techniques. Yet for much of the twe...

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History

Merchants of Medicines The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century

Dorner Zachary

ISBN: HB: 9780226706801, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 5 tables

The period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century – the so-called long eighteenth century of English history – was a time of profound global change, marked by the expansion of intercontinental empires, long distance trade, and huma...

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Physiology

Science of Walking Investigations into Locomotion in the Long Nineteenth Century

Mayer Andreas

ISBN: HB: 9780226328355, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

"The Science of Walking" recounts the story of the growing interest and investment of Western scholars, physicians, and writers in the scientific study of an activity that seems utterly trivial in its everyday performance and yet essential to our hum...

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Public Health

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Plague Years A Doctor's Journey through the AIDS Crisis

Slotten Ross A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226718767, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten had the dubious distinction of signing more death certificates in the city of Chicago – and, by inference, the state of Illinois – than any other physician. As a family physician, he trained to care for patients from birt...

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Pharmacy

Law

Medical Monopoly Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry

Gabriel Joseph M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226710228, ISBN: HB: 9780226108186, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, April 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

During much of the nineteenth century, physicians and pharmacists alike considered medical patenting and the use of trademarks by drug manufacturers unethical forms of monopoly; physicians who prescribed patented drugs could be, and were, ostracized...

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Psychiatry

Psychology

Mental Traveler A Father, a Son, and a Journey through Schizophrenia

Mitchell W. J. T.

ISBN: HB: 9780226695938, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 18 halftones

How does a parent make sense of a child's severe mental illness? How does a father meet the daily challenges of caring for his gifted but delusional son, while seeking to overcome the stigma of madness and the limits of psychiatry? W. J. T. Mitchell...

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Physiotherapy

Sport

Anatomy and Strength Training Without Specialized Equipment

Seijas Guillermo

ISBN: PB: 9781782551935, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, March 2020
152 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 408 colour illus.

Keeping in shape and showing off a toned body is not only an aesthetic advantage, but also a basic requirement for good health and total physical strength. The good news is that exercisers don't have to pump iron at a gym to achieve this! This is bec...

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Health & Wellbeing

Nutrition

Renaissance Diet 2.0 Your Scientific Guide to Fat Loss, Muscle Gain, and Performance

ISBN: PB: 9781782551904, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, March 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 illus

The Renaissance Diet 2.0 is a hands-on guide that presents a sports nutrition approach to eating for fat loss, muscle gain, and enhanced sport performance by incorporating comprehensive evidence, setting it apart from all the misinformation on nutrit...

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Nutrition

Health & Wellbeing

Living Low Carb The Complete Guide to Choosing the Right Weight Loss Plan for You

Bowden Jonny

ISBN: PB: 9781454935049, GMC Group, Sterling, March 2020
352 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, illus.

The best low-carb guide keeps getting better! This revised edition of the book by nationally known nutrition expert Jonny Bowden provides up-to-date insight on how to choose the perfect diet for you. In their quest to lose weight and live healthily,...

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Neurology

Evolution

True Creator of Everything How the Human Brain Shaped the Universe as We Know It

Nicolelis Miguel

ISBN: HB: 9780300244632, Yale University Press, February 2020
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 39 black&white illus.

Renowned neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis introduces readers to a revolutionary new theory of how the human brain evolved to become an organic computer without rival in the known universe. Nicolelis undertakes the first attempt to explain the entirety...

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