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Planet of Viruses Third Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226782591, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
In 2020, an invisible germ – a virus – wholly upended our lives. We're most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or Covid-19. But viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like g...
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£12,00
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Plague Years A Doctor's Journey through the AIDS Crisis
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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£16,00
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Pandemic Century One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris
ISBN: HB: 9781787381216, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us b...
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£20,00
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Polio The Odyssey of Eradication
ISBN: HB: 9781849049566, Hurst Publishers, June 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 1988, the World Health Organization launched a twelve-year campaign to wipe out polio. Thirty years and several billion dollars over budget later, the campaign grinds on, vaccinating millions of children and hoping that each...
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£25,00
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Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
ISBN: PB: 9780226063959, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 8 line drawings, 2 tables
The search for a "patient zero" – popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic – has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the eme...
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£26,50
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Planet of Viruses Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226294209, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
128 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 12 colour plates
The past year has been one of viral panic – panic about viruses, that is. Through headlines, public health warnings, and at least one homemade hazmat suit, we were reminded of the powerful force of viruses. They are the smallest living things known t...
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£10,00
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Politics of Pain Medicine A Rhetorical-Ontological Inquiry
ISBN: HB: 9780226264059, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 15 line drawings, 2 tables
Chronic pain is a medical mystery, debilitating to patients and a source of frustration for practitioners. It often eludes both cause and cure and serves as a reminder of how much further we have to go in unlocking the secrets of the body. A new fiel...
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£40,00
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Portrait of the Brain
ISBN: PB: 9780300158311, Yale University Press, July 2009
256 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.
In this compelling book, neurologist Adam Zeman tells the stories of patients with a variety of neurological disorders, some familiar (epilepsy, chronic fatigue, stroke, memory loss) and others relatively mysterious (narcolepsy, chronic deja vu, comp...
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£9,99
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Parents' Guide to Cochlear Implants
ISBN: PB: 9781563681295, Gallaudet University Press, October 2002
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Now, parents of deaf children have at hand a complete guide to the process of cochlear implantation. Written by two eminent professionals in deaf education, "The Parents' Guide to Cochlear" Implants explains in a friendly, easy-to-follow style each s...
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£19,00
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