Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The myth of the Negro past	Melville J. Herskovits	Almost fifty years ago Melville Herskovits set out to debunk the myth that black Americans have no cultural past. Originally published in 1941, his unprecedented study of black history and culture re…	OL1135905W
Women gain a place in medicine	Edythe Lutzker	Traces the struggles of five women in the nineteenth century -- Sophia Jex-Blake, Edith Pechey, Isabel Thorne, Matilda Chaplin, Helen Evans -- as they fought to make medical education available to fe…	OL149679W
Clean	Virginia Smith	"Using first-hand accounts and sources, Clean unfolds the long history of personal hygiene and purity from pre-historic grooming rituals to New Age medicine, from medieval ascetics to 21st century co…	OL16070814W
Leonardo's foot	Carol Ann Rinzler	Step right up for a toe-curling cultural biography of humanity's earthbound extremity!	OL18014490W
History of medicine in India	Chittabrata Palit,Achintya Kumar Dutta	Contributed articles grown out of a national seminar hosted by Corpus Research Institute in 2002, in the campus of Jadavpur University.	OL18719517W
Health and science	Jenny Bryan	Examines the participation of women in medical and scientific discoveries and in the growth of health care in France, Great Britain, and the United States through the lives of Marie Curie, Cicely Sau…	OL1885121W
Revolutionary medicine, 1700-1800	C. Keith Wilbur	Chronicles the treatments and theories of American medicine in the 18th century.	OL1928343W
The body in question	Jonathan Miller	Fantastic look at how we came to discover the human body. This book is fun to read out loud as the prose is other worldly. Dr Miller looks at select systems (eg. blood, lungs, reproductive etc) in …	OL2018185W
The value of medicine	Philip Rhodes	3-159 p. ; 23 cm	OL2364847W
Notes of a medical maverick	Allen B. Weisse	Overview: Dr. Allen Weisse's fascinating new collection of essays, Notes of a Medical Maverick offers an exploration of the medical profession for readers with a taste for history and a love of langu…	OL24204660W
Christiaan Barnard	Christiaan Barnard	This book is the autobiography of the famed South African heart-transplanter. The novelistic (conversations recreated years after they took place), breathless prose disqualifies much of Barnard's sto…	OL2550538W
Medicine and the German Jews	John M. Efron	"Medicine played an important role in the early secularization and eventual modernization of German Jewish culture. And as both physicians and patients, Jews exerted a great influence on the formatio…	OL3469633W
Encyclopedia of medical history	Roderick E. McGrew	103 entries to important medical topics. Intended for the general reader, students of history, and students of medicine. Entries are essays that include references and cross references. General index.	OL4115697W
The healers	David Hamilton,Hamilton, David	2nd ed / paperback ed	OL4662783W
The Beatons	John Bannerman	The interrelationships of the various Beaton families of medical reknown of Scotland.	OL4921673W
Plague and the poor in Renaissance Florence	Ann G. Carmichael	xv, 180 pages : 24 cm	OL5101213W
Women, Nazis, and universities	Jacques R. Pauwels	"Based on official government documents and extensive secondary literature, this book revises several old assumptions on the periods of peace and war. For the 1930s, Pauwels demonstrates that declini…	OL5602543W
Invisible armies	Howard N. Simpson	Explores the neglected role disease has played in American history, posing the novel idea that susceptibility to sickness has meant weakness in war, from the first colonizations to the Civil War.	OL6320900W
When the twain meet	John Z. Bowers	xi, 173 pages ; 24 cm	OL6333407W
About doctors of long ago	Naida Dickson	Briefly introduces some pioneers in medicine from Imhotep, an Egyptian physician in 2900 B.C., to Sir James Simpson, discoverer of chloroform in 1847.	OL6706236W