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Contagious Cause The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine

Wolfe Scheffler Robin

ISBN: PB: 9780226628370, ISBN: HB: 9780226458892, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Is cancer a contagious disease? In the late nineteenth century this idea, and attending efforts to identify a cancer "germ", inspired fear and ignited controversy. Yet speculation that cancer might be contagious also contained a kernel of hope that t...

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Itch, Clap, Pox Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination

Gallagher Noelle

ISBN: HB: 9780300217056, Yale University Press, March 2019
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

In eighteenth-century Britain, venereal disease was everywhere and nowhere: while physicians and commentators believed the condition to be widespread, it remained shrouded in secrecy, and was often represented using slang, symbolism, and wordplay. In...

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Revolting Remedies from the Middle Ages

Wakelin Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9781851244768, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2017
112 pp., 17x11 cm

"For a zitty face. Take urine eight days old and heat it over the fire; wash your face with it morning and night". In late medieval England, ordinary people, apothecaries and physicians gathered up practical medical tips for everyday use. While some...

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Finest Traditions of My Calling One Physician's Search for the Renewal of Medicine

Nussbaum Abraham M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300227048, Yale University Press, May 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm

Patients and doctors alike are keenly aware that the medical world is in the midst of great change. We live in an era of continuous healthcare reforms, many of which focus on high volume, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. This compelling, thoughtfu...

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Life on Ice A History of New Uses for Cold Blood

Radin Joanna

ISBN: HB: 9780226417318, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

After the atomic bombing at the end of World War II, anxieties about survival in the nuclear age led scientists to begin stockpiling and freezing hundreds of thousands of blood samples from indigenous communities around the world. These samples were...

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Contesting Medical Confidentiality Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany

Maehle Andreas-Holger

ISBN: HB: 9780226404820, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Medical confidentiality is an essential cornerstone of effective public health systems, and for centuries societies have struggled to maintain the illusion of absolute privacy. In this age of health databases and increasing connectedness, however, th...

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Neither Donkey nor Horse Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity

Hsiang-lin Lei Sean

ISBN: PB: 9780226379401, ISBN: HB: 9780226169880, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 1 line drawing

"Neither Donkey nor Horse" tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China's exploration of its own modernity half a century later....

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Discovering Tuberculosis A Global History, 1900 to the Present

McMillen Christian W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300190298, Yale University Press, August 2015
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

Tuberculosis is one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases, killing nearly two million people every year, now more than at any other time in history. While the developed world has nearly forgotten about TB, it continues to wreak havoc across mu...

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Medical Book 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine (New Edition)

Pickover Clifford A.

ISBN: HB: 9781435148048, GMC Group, Sterling, April 2014
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

The history of medicine is as old as the history of human civilization. In "The Medical Book", popular science writer Clifford A. Pickover explores 250 milestone discoveries in medicine that span more than 12,000 years. Whether writing on "hard scien...

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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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