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  • Pain Chronicles
    Melanie Thernstrom
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    16,73 €

  • When Doctors Became Killers Jewish Physicians, Nazi Medicine, Auschwitz, and the Holocaust in the Third Reich
    Julia Wolbrook
    They swore the same oath. Then one half of the medical profession turned the other half into an experiment.Nearly half of all German physicians joined the Nazi Party, the largest professional group to do so. Doctors didn’t just comply with Hitler’s regime; they built it, from the sterilization laws to the euthanasia centers that became the blueprint for Auschwitz. Men sworn to ...
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    18,60 €

  • Battle Station Sick Bay
    Jan K Herman
    In this compelling history, Navy medical personnel recall the major role Navy Medicine played in World War II. Physicians, dentists, nurses, and hospital corpsmen report their gripping testimonies in both the European and Pacific theaters. Their courage and skills were both tested and sharpened at Pearl Harbor, Corregidor, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Normandy, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. W...
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    73,43 €

  • The Importance of Having A Brain
    Tonse N. K. Raju. MD
     The fascinating world of the history of medicine Navigate through the rich and delightful history of one of man’s oldest of creeds-the medical profession (not the other, its less illustrious competitor). Told with a perfect blend of historical accuracy, wit, and humor, these assorted stories from the annals of medicine are informative, illuminating, and entertaining. This is a...
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    22,42 €

  • On the Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery
    Joseph Lister
    In 1867 a Glasgow surgeon published a few pages that changed the odds of survival on every operating table. Reasoning from Pasteur’s discovery that putrefaction is the work of living organisms, Joseph Lister argued that the deadly infection of surgical wounds was caused by germs the surgeon could destroy with carbolic acid. This facsimile source edition reproduces that foundati...
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    22,82 €

  • The Extension of the Germ Theory to the Etiology of Certain Common Diseases
    Louis Pasteur
    On 3 May 1880, Louis Pasteur stood before the French Academy of Sciences and argued that the living microbes he had shown to drive fermentation also caused certain common diseases. This is that argument, in the contemporary English translation of H. C. Ernst, M.D. - a primary witness to the germ theory mid-passage, confident enough to assert and contested enough to require the ...
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    18,35 €

  • Die Aetiologie der Tuberculose
    Robert Koch
    On 24 March 1882, Robert Koch told the Physiological Society of Berlin that he had found the cause of tuberculosis: a single slow-growing bacillus, made visible by a new stain, grown in pure culture, and proved by inoculation. This edition reproduces his announcement in the original German, exactly as his first readers met it, with editorial apparatus supplied for the modern re...
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    22,28 €

  • The Power of Four
    W. Nikola-Lisa
    The Power of Four: Elements, Humors, Temperaments, Types is a sweeping history of four foundational concepts that have guided Western thought from the earliest days of Western civilization. Divided into four parts, the book takes an evolutionary stance, looking at how each concept developed and then evolved into the next. It also leans heavily on the nature or 'power' of four, ...
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    20,52 €

  • Japanese Medical Lives in Transformation
    Ellen Gardner Nakamura
    At the end of the 19th century, Japanese modernizers abandoned the traditional Chinese-style medicine that had dominated for centuries, and turned instead to Western medical theory and practice. In this book, Ellen Gardner Nakamura reconsiders the story of the adoption of Western medicine through the eyes of six medical practitioners. The men who took the lead in transforming J...
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    51,32 €

  • Load-Bearing
    Atanu Biswas
    Every nose job, every reconstruction, every silicone implant and lunchtime injectable has a price - and the price was never an accident.For a century, the story of plastic surgery has been told as a story of vanity, or of medical heroics. It is neither. It is a story about money.In Load-Bearing, board-certified plastic surgeon Atanu Biswas traces how financial forces - world wa...
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    29,50 €

  • The Situated Science of Nicola Caputi
    Manuel De Carli
    The Situated Science of Nicola Caputi examines the scientific writings of Nicola Caputi (1696-1761), a physician from Salento and member of the Neapolitan Academy of Sciences. The book offers the first comprehensive study of Caputi’s oeuvre, reconstructing his role as a local observer within the early eighteenth-century scientific culture of the Kingdom of Naples.. At the cente...
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    36,04 €

  • Warum es uns so schwerfällt, gesund zu leben
    Daniel Schäfer
    Was können wir für unsere Gesundheit tun? Lebensregeln begleiten die Menschheit seit Jahrtausenden in zahlreichen kulturellen Kontexten. Neben einer richtigen Ernährung spielen auch Fragen der körperlichen und geistigen Bewegung, der Erholung, der Sexualität und der Umwelt eine wichtige Rolle. Anhand dieser Faktoren wurden und werden in der Fachwelt komplexe Konzepte aufgestell...
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    31,84 €

  • Making of a Physician
    John E Heffner
    During the 1970s, young physicians learned medicine in a world of autonomy, responsibility, and uncertainty. Resident-driven hospital teams often made life-and-death decisions with limited supervision and few of the technological resources available today.  In Making of a Physician, John E. Heffner, MD recounts his journey through that formative era, when bedside observation ...
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    19,83 €

  • Magnetic Waters That Healed
    Malachi J King
    Magnetic Waters That Healed tells the fascinating story of Michigan’s nineteenth-century mineral-water craze and the remarkable rise of Michigan towns as some of America’s best-known health resorts. With in-depth and original introductions to the rare primary-source publications, this 200-page book explores the medical and social history behind one of Michigan’s most unusual ch...
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    11,72 €

  • The Great Dying
    E.B Cohen
    In October 1347, a fleet of Genoese galleys limped into the harbour of Messina with most of their crews already dead or dying. Within five years the disease they carried had swept across an entire continent, killing perhaps one person in two. Whole villages vanished. Cities ran out of ground to bury the dead. It was the deadliest catastrophe in recorded human history.This is th...
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    25,55 €

  • डॉक्टर मैग्नेट
    अनिल पांडेय
    डॉक्टर मैग्नेट एक छोटे से शहर के उस साधारण लड़के की असाधारण और सच्ची जीवन-यात्रा है, जिसने अपनी परिस्थितियों से कहीं बड़े सपने देखने का साहस किया। क्रॉकरी की दुकान में काम करने से लेकर कोटा की गलियों में विश्वास और संघर्ष के सहारे अपने सपनों का पीछा करने तक, आर्थिक कठिनाइयों के कारण कोचिंग से वंचित रहने से लेकर अंततः डॉक्टर का सफेद कोट पहनने तक-यह पुस्तक इस बात का जीवंत प्रमाण ...
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    8,69 €

  • The Year of the Reaper
    E.B Cohen
    In the space of about two years, between the spring of 1918 and the spring of 1920, a single strain of influenza circled the entire inhabited world. It infected perhaps five hundred million people - one in every three human beings then alive - and it killed somewhere between twenty-five and fifty million of them, possibly far more. More died than in all four years of the First ...
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    25,48 €

  • The Leopard Lily Project
    Edzard Ernst
    This book tells the bewildering tale of one of the most insidious, yet almost forgotten crimes against humanity planned by the Nazis during the Third Reich. Soon after taking power in 1933, the Nazis introduced a program of involuntary sterilization of those German citizens who they considered unworthy of reproduction. These were predominantly, but not exclusively, people affli...
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    32,17 €

  • The Sane And The Sentenced
    MARISOL KESTRANDT
    Viktoria Petrova called the war what it was. For that, a Russian court did not send her to prison. It sent her to a psychiatric hospital, with no release date attached.This has happened before. Vladimir Bukovsky knew it. So did Natalya Gorbanevskaya, who stood in Red Square with seven others and paid for it with a diagnosis instead of a sentence. So did the thousands of men and...
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    33,96 €

  • Old-Time Makers of Medicine
    James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Old-Time Makers of Medicine pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Delve into the fascinating world of medieval medicine with James J. Walsh’s 'Old-Time Makers of Medicine.' This meticulously researched history explores the lives and contributions of the students ...
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    28,78 €

  • Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine (Cram Edition)
    James Sir Elliott
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Explore the foundations of medical science with 'Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine' by James Sands Elliott. This meticulously prepared reprint delves into the rich history of ancient me...
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    20,97 €

  • A Labrador Doctor
    Wilfred Thomason Sir Grenfell
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of A Labrador Doctor pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'A Labrador Doctor: The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell' recounts the remarkable life of a physician and medical missionary who dedicated himself to the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. Grenfe...
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    29,81 €

  • History of Circumcision From the Earliest Times to the Present
    P. C. (Peter Charles) Remondino
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Explore the comprehensive history of circumcision with Peter Charles Remondino’s 'History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present.' This meticulous...
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    27,91 €

  • An Account of the Foxglove and Some of Its Medical Uses
    William Withering
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Discover the groundbreaking work of William Withering in 'Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses, With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases.' Thi...
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    35,59 €

  • Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life
    Erasmus Darwin
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Erasmus Darwin’s 'Zoonomia, Vol. 2: Or, the Laws of Organic Life' presents a fascinating exploration into 18th-century science and early concepts of evolution. This volume continues Darw...
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    45,47 €

  • Makers of Modern Medicine (Cram Edition)
    James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Makers of Modern Medicine pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Explore the fascinating evolution of healthcare in 'Makers of Modern Medicine,' a biographical journey through the lives and groundbreaking contributions of medical pioneers. Authored by James J. Wal...
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    26,95 €

  • The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. (Cram Edition)
    William Andrews
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Explore the fascinating intersection of medicine, literature, and social history with William Andrews’ 'The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc.' This meticulously ...
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    23,05 €

  • The Works of Sir Thomas Browne
    Charles Sayle / Thomas Sir Browne
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Works of Sir Thomas Browne pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Explore the fascinating intersection of faith and science in 'The Works of Sir Thomas Browne,' the first volume of a meticulously prepared three-part collection. Delve into the mind of Thomas Br...
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    28,86 €

  • The Works of Sir Thomas Browne
    Charles Sayle / Thomas Sir Browne
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Works of Sir Thomas Browne pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Explore the intersection of religion and medicine in the 17th century with 'The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3 of 3.' This meticulously prepared edition presents the writings of Thomas Bro...
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    41,39 €

  • Loimologia
    John Quincy / Nathaniel Hodges
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665 pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Explore the terrifying reality of the Great Plague of London in 1665 with 'Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665, With Prec...
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    23,16 €