(Paperback)
By: Thomas Morris
ISBN: 9781784703257
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In eleven landmark operations, Thomas Morris tells us stories of triumph, reckless bravery, swaggering arrogance, jealousy and rivalry, and incredible ingenuity, from the trail-blazing blue baby procedure to the first human heart transplant.
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By: Eric Lax
ISBN: 9780349117683
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2006
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2005
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* Subtitled 'The Remarkable True Story of the Penicillin Miracle', this book is a wonderful combination of modern narrative history and popular science.
(Hardback)
By: Dhun Sethna
ISBN: 9781541600669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Basic Books
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A revisionist history of medicine, in which blood plays the starring role
(Hardback)
By: Alison Li
ISBN: 9780807038192
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Beacon Press
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(Paperback)
By: Alistair G. Tough
ISBN: 9781851240517
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1998
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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A guide to personal papers in Rhodes House Library, Oxford.
Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
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By: Lundy Braun
ISBN: 9780816683598
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Paperback)
By: Nancy G. Siraisi
ISBN: 9780691144337
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), renowned as a mathematician, encyclopedist, astrologer, and autobiographer, was by profession a medical practitioner. This book draws on selected themes in Cardano's medical writings to explore in detail the relation between medicine and wider areas of Renaissance culture.
(Hardback)
By: Martin Atherton
ISBN: 9780719084676
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Sets a case study of deaf people's leisure in NW England within a wider British context; gives insights into a misunderstood, misrepresented community; questions perceptions of deafness as a disability; shows the importance of shared leisure in community formation and how changing patterns of socialisation are affecting British society. -- .
(Hardback)
By: Vicky Long
ISBN: 9780719085819
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Examines mental healthcare workers' efforts to educate the public between 1870 and 1970 -- .
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By: James Gray
ISBN: 9780816672417
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1960
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Hardback)
By: Ed West
ISBN: 9781510719880
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Elexious Bell
ISBN: 9780816671168
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 1951
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Hardback)
By: Anne Borsay
ISBN: 9780708320471
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2007
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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The South Wales Coalfield Collection (SWCC) is one of the largest archives of its kind in the UK and of international importance. This work attempts to make items of medical significance more accessible. It is based on a screening of the Collection funded by a Welcome Trust Research Resources in Medical History Award.
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By: Peter Borsay
ISBN: 9780708318249
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2003
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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At a time when the proper role of the state is under constant review, its relationship to the private sphere is a matter of considerable public concern, this text places this debate in historical context.
(Hardback)
By: Bruce T. Moran
ISBN: 9781789141443
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 16th September 2019
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A new account of the controversial alchemist, physician and social radical known as Paracelsus.
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By: Michael Brown
ISBN: 9780719077975
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The book offers a fresh and distinctive account of the transformation of provincial English medicine from the late eighteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field it demonstrates how the roots of modern medicine can be located in the cultural, political and ideological upheavals of the age of reform.
(Hardback)
By: Alun Withey
ISBN: 9780719085468
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales -- .
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By: Jonathan Lamb
ISBN: 9780691182933
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Jonathan Lamb
ISBN: 9780691147826
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Donald R. Kirsch
ISBN: 9781628729863
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.
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By: Galen
ISBN: 9780915145928
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1985
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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(Paperback)
By: George B. Hernndez
ISBN: 9781595348555
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Trinity University Press,U.S.
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The history of a long-serving South Texas medical institution
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By: Deborah Palmer
ISBN: 9780719090875
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nurses' health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent of the National Health Service in 1948 -- .
(Hardback)
By: Waltraud Ernst
ISBN: 9780719097690
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Breaks new ground in the history of psychiatry by focusing on the role of work in mental-health institutions. -- .
