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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
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
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
Liberating medicine, 1720-1835	Tristanne J. Connolly,Clark, S. H.	"During the eighteenth century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselves apart from the unspecialized, hack 'bar…	OL16939783W
St Marylebone Church And Burial Ground In The 18th To 19th Centuries Excavations At St Marylebone S…	Adrian Miles	"St Marylebone parish grew from humble beginnings on the city's margins to become, in the 18th and 19th centuries, one of the wealthiest in London, home to the elite and fashionable." "Archaeological…	OL17483235W
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
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
The anatomy murders	Lisa Rosner	Up the close and down the stair, Up and down with Burke and Hare. Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the man who buys the beef. —anonymous children's song On Halloween night 1828, i…	OL1993523W
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