(Hardback)
By: Murray C. Meikle
ISBN: 9781877578397
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: Otago University Press
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How four surgeons revolutionised plastic surgery and the treatment of facial trauma, working on soldiers, fighter pilots and civilians disfigured by bombs, shrapnel and burns.
(Paperback)
By: Benjamin Kingsbury
ISBN: 9781988545981
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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From 1906 to 1925 Quail Island was the site of New Zealand's leprosy colony. It was a place that some people wanted to forget, but its stories are worth remembering: among them are stories of remarkable generosity and selfessness, as well as of violence and great suffering.
(Hardback)
By: Victoria Shepherd
ISBN: 9780861540914
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2022
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The extraordinary worlds created in our minds
(Paperback)
By: Victoria Shepherd
ISBN: 9780861545308
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2023
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The extraordinary worlds created in our minds
(Hardback)
By: Carol Cooper
ISBN: 9780711294622
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 24th October 2024
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
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A History of Medicine in 12 Objects is an entertaining and insightful guide through the instruments that have come to shape modern medicine as we know it.
(Hardback)
By: Waltraud Ernst
ISBN: 9781526159403
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and impacts public perceptions of drinking. This book maps the historical and cultural dimensions of the phenomenon, emphasising medical attitudes to alcohol and the changing perception of consumption in psychiatry and mental health.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Sarah Chaney
ISBN: 9781788162463
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th July 2023
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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The riveting history of the strange science of the 'Normal', and the origins of an anxiety-ridden modern obsession
(Paperback)
By: Kate Cole-Adams
ISBN: 9781922268747
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Text Publishing
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An astonishing work of creative non-fiction exploring the mysteries of general anaesthesia, now in a smaller, competitively priced format.
(Hardback)
By: Mones Abu-Asab
ISBN: 9781594774324
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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The first contemporary translation of the 1,000-year-old text at the foundation of modern medicine and biology
(Paperback)
By: Roy Porter
ISBN: 9781789142792
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A magisterial account by Roy Porter of representations of the body in health, disease and death.
(Paperback)
By: Athena Aktipis
ISBN: 9780691207865
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Conrad Keating
ISBN: 9781851240036
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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This short illustrated history chronicles the story of Oxford's contribution to science, from its medieval origins to its present status as one of the world's leading scientific institutions. In charting Oxford's remarkable history, the book showcases twenty discoveries which have shaped medical science across the centuries, with worldwide impact.
(Paperback)
By: Rachelle Buchbinder
ISBN: 9781742237350
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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In Hippocrasy, two world-leading doctors rheumatologist and epidemiologist Rachelle Buchbinder and orthopaedic surgeon Ian Harris reveal the true state of modern medicine and how doctors are letting their patients down.
(Hardback)
By: Laura Lindgren
ISBN: 9780922233281
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Blast Books,U.S.
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(Paperback)
By: Jacqueline Leckie
ISBN: 9781991016720
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: Massey University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Lydia Kang
ISBN: 9781523513291
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 16th November 2021
Publisher: Workman Publishing
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A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and their patient zeros), plus chapters on the science, culture, and cures for different types of epidemics and pandemics. Popular reading on a timely topic.
(Paperback)
By: Professor Emeritus Christopher D. Stanley
ISBN: 9780567708151
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Lydia Kang
ISBN: 9780761189817
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 17th October 2017
Publisher: Workman Publishing
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A tour of medicine's most outlandish misfires, Quackery dives into 35 "treatments", exploring their various uses and why they thankfully fell out of favour - some more recently than you might think.
(Hardback)
By: Colin Salter
ISBN: 9780711280748
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 20th July 2023
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
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The Anatomists Library is a lavishly illustrated compendium of the anatomical publications that have informed medicine over six centuries.
(Hardback)
By: Robin Choudhury
ISBN: 9781837931767
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Eugenia Pacitti
ISBN: 9781350373723
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
ISBN: 9780141983387
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Lucy Ward
ISBN: 9780861545186
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 16th February 2023
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The astonishing true story of how Catherine the Great joined forces with a Quaker doctor from Essex to spearhead a groundbreaking public health campaign
(Paperback)
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
ISBN: 9780141990293
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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