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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Dr. Henry R. Porter	L. G. Walker	"This volume details the life and times of Dr. Henry Porter, through his work as an Army surgeon and early medical practitioner in the western territories of Arizona, Dakota, and Montana. Most import…	OL11882826W
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
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
In the Kingdom of the Sick	Laurie Edwards	Thirty years ago, Susan Sontag wrote, "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick ... Sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spe…	OL16813041W
The Cruel Madness Of Love Sex Syphilis And Psychiatry In Scotland 18801930	Gayle Davis	Against a backdrop of contemporary social and sexual concerns, and potent fears surrounding the moral and physical 'degeneration' of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century society, this book exp…	OL17508627W
In the arms of Morpheus	Barbara Hodgson	Examines how the drinking of laudanum for medical reasons developed and how it became an everyday safeguard against pain, poverty, and boredom. Opium eating was catapulted into fame by the confession…	OL1840605W
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
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
Ultimate Witnesses	Niamh Ann Kelly	47 pages : 28 cm	OL21609151W
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
In search of human nature	Carl N. Degler	Now, with In Search of Human Nature, Degler turns to perhaps his largest subject yet, a sweeping history of the impact of Darwinism (and biological research) on our understanding of human nature, pro…	OL2638146W
Dr. Richard Bright, (1789-1858)	Pamela Bright	312 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 23 cm	OL5630542W
Bitter Nemesis	John Buckingham	Encouraged by the medicinal success of quinine, early 19th century scientists hoped strychnine, another plant alkaloid with remarkable properties, might also become a new weapon against disease. Phys…	OL8087920W