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Oncology

Cancer on Trial Oncology as a New Style of Practice

Keating Peter, Cambrosio Alberto

ISBN: PB: 9780226143040, ISBN: HB: 9780226428918, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 24 halftones, 28 line illus.

Until the early 1960s, cancer treatment consisted primarily of surgery and radiation therapy. Most practitioners then viewed the treatment of terminally ill cancer patients with heroic courses of chemotherapy as highly questionable. The randomized cl...

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History

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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Genetics

Philosophy

Creating a Physical Biology The Three-Man Paper and Early Molecular Biology

Sloan Phillip R., Fogel Brandon

ISBN: PB: 9780226767833, ISBN: HB: 9780226767826, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 9 halftones, 11 line illus.

In 1935 geneticist Nikolai Timofeeff-Ressovsky, radiation physicist Karl G. Zimmer, and quantum physicist Max Delbruck published "On the Nature of Gene Mutation and Gene Structure", known subsequently as the "Three-Man Paper". This seminal paper adva...

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Sign Language

Public Health

Cochlear Implants Evolving Perspectives

Paludneviciene Raylene, Leigh Irene W.

ISBN: HB: 9781563685033, Gallaudet University Press, September 2011
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 6 tables, 2 figures

The cochlear implant debate has changed, as evidenced in this cogent collection that presents 13 chapters by 20 experts, including several who communicate through sign language but also utilize cochlear implants. The impetus for this change stems fro...

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Surgery

Challenging Operations Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery

Kellogg Katherine C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226430034, ISBN: HB: 9780226430027, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
248 pp., 25x15 cm, 4 tables, 7 line illus.

In 2003, in the face of errors and accidents caused by medical and surgical trainees, the American Council of Graduate Medical Education mandated a reduction in resident work hours to eighty per week. Over the course of two and a half years spent obs...

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Genetics

Philosophy

Contested Reproduction Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate

Evans John H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226222653, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables, 3 line illus.

Scientific breakthroughs have led us to a point where soon we will be able to make specific choices about the genetic makeup of our offspring. In fact, this reality has arrived – and it is only a matter of time before the technology becomes widesprea...

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