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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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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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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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Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911 The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease

Summers William C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300183191, Yale University Press, January 2013
192 pp., 21x14 cm, 14 black&white illus.

When plague broke out in Manchuria in 1910 as a result of transmission from marmots to humans, it struck a region struggling with the introduction of Western medicine, as well as with the interactions of three different national powers: Chinese, Japa...

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Can Onions Cure Ear-Ache? Medical Advice from 1769

Buchan William, King Melanie, Winston Robert

ISBN: HB: 9781851243822, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2012
208 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 26 black&white illus.

What common condition can be treated with cow dung? How do crushed oystershells ease heartburn? Can eels cure deafness? And how do you stop a stubborn case of the hiccups? If someone was struck down by illness or injury in the late eighteenth century...

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Medical Book: From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine

Pickover Clifford A.

ISBN: HB: 9781402785856, GMC Group, Sterling, September 2012
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

Following his hugely successful "The Math Book" and "The Physics Book", Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology,...

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Asia

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Mixed Medicines Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia

Au Sokhieng

ISBN: PB: 9780226031644, ISBN: HB: 9780226031637, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 2 tables, 19 halftones, 4 line illus.

During the first half of the twentieth century, representatives of the French colonial health services actively strove to expand the practice of Western medicine in the frontier colony of Cambodia. But as the French physicians ventured beyond their c...

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Making of Modern Medicine Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease

Bliss Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226059013, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
112 pp., 21.8x14.8 cm, 26 halftones

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, we have become accustomed to medical breakthroughs and conditioned to assume that, regardless of illnesses, doctors almost certainly will be able to help – not just by diagnosing us and alleviating our pain, b...

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Medicine at Yale The First 200 Years

Falvey Kerry L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300167306, Yale University Press, January 2011
240 pp., 30.5x24.9 cm, 350 illus.

Founded in 1810, the Yale School of Medicine was among the nation's first medical schools. Over the past 200 years it has grown and evolved to become a world-class institution for research, education, and patient care, as well as a hub of medical inn...

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Atmosphere of Heaven The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes an His Sons of Genius

Jay Mike

ISBN: PB: 9780300168914, Yale University Press, August 2010
296 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

At the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, founded in the closing years of the eighteenth century, dramatic experiments with gases precipitated not only a revolution in scientific medicine but also in the history of ideas. Guided by the energy of maver...

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