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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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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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