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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A history of multiple sclerosis	Colin Lee Talley	This book examines how a rare, uncommon disease suddenly became mainstream.	OL11776949W
Healing traditions	Karen Elizabeth Flint	Annotation	OL12049285W
The anatomist	Bill Hayes	"Hayes's history of the illustrated medical text "Gray's Anatomy" coincides with the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of its first publication. Fascinated by the fact that little was known about the …	OL12388629W
Rhyming reason	Michelle Faubert	During the Romantic era, psychology and literature enjoyed a fluid relationship. Faubert focuses on a hitherto little -known group of psychologist-poets who grew out of the liberal literary-medical c…	OL12642887W
97 Orchard	Jane Ziegelman	In 97 Orchard, Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York's Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth century—a city within a city, where Germans, Irish,…	OL15178517W
Hugh Williamson	George F. Sheldon	361 p., [8] p. of plates : 22 cm	OL15440528W
Neurology and modernity	Laura Salisbury,Andrew Shail	"An exploration of the habits of the modern era beside cultural notions discovering brain function and the nervous system to be central to health and illness. It looks at debates within neurology and…	OL15907590W
The Italian boy	Sarah Wise	Describes the 1831 murder of a young vagrant and the sale of his body to a London medical college, a case that led to the arrest of his killers, "resurrection men" who acted to satisfy the demand for…	OL16026125W
A history of British sports medicine	Vanessa Heggie	This text offers a comprehensive study, and social history, of the development of sports medicine in Britain, as practiced by British doctors and on British athletes in national and international set…	OL16080738W
Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880-2000	Karol K. Weaver	While much has been written about immigrant traditions, music, food culture, folklore, and other aspects of ethnic identity, little attention has been given to the study of medical culture, until now…	OL16262739W
Dangerous work	Arthur Conan Doyle	Conan Doyle's diary and log of his time served as a surgeon on a whaling ship in 1880. Annotated, and includes several incidental pieces derived from his experience, including the Sherlock Holmes st…	OL16672658W
Celebrating nurses	Christine E. Hallett	Looks at the development of the profession, describes the work of nurses through the ages, and depicts the work of nurses in peace and wartime.	OL16686363W
Schizophrenia is a misdiagnosis	C. Raymond Lake	Schizophrenia is the most widely known and feared mental illness worldwide, yet a rapidly growing literature from a broad spectrum of basic and clinical disciplines, especially epidemiology and molec…	OL16688103W
The age of hypochondria	George C. Grinnell	"Examining the ways in which hypochondria forms both a malady and a metaphor for a range of British Romantic writers, Grinnell contends that this is not one illness amongst many, but a disorder of th…	OL18347899W
King Leopold's ghost	Adam Hochschild	In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocid…	OL1869541W
Contagion	Andrew Robert Aisenberg	vii, 238 pages ; 22 cm	OL1950569W
The remedy	Thomas Goetz	"The riveting history of tuberculosis, the world's most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it tragically intertwined, and the birth of medical science. In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest di…	OL19709681W
Another person's poison	Matthew Smith	To some, food allergies seem like fabricated cries for attention. For others, they pose a dangerous health threat. Food allergies are bound up with so many personal and ideological concerns that it i…	OL20006473W
Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832	David E. Shuttleton	Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726?1832 examines the ramifications of Scottish medicine for literary culture within Scotland, throughout Britain, and across the transatlantic world. The con…	OL20932776W
The pure society	André Pichot	Amid the eulogies and celebrations commemorating the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth, the darker side of evolutionary theory should not be forgotten. In The Pure Society, André Pichot, one of F…	OL24122419W