Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Materials and Medicine	Pratik Chakrabarti	Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials …	OL15644068W
Medicine in Mexico	Gordon Schendel	xiv, 329 pages : 24 cm	OL161512W
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
Grundriss der Geschichte der Medicin	Lajos Ádám,Heinrich Haeser	Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.	OL19809047W
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
Daniel Drake and his followers	Juettner, Otto	Daniel Drake (1785-1852) was a physician and writer who established a medical practice in Cincinnati in 1807. He helped organize the Medical College of Ohio in Cincinnati in 1819, and in 1827 founde…	OL238667W
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
Disease and death in America	Gerald N. Grob	"The Deadly Truth chronicles the complex interactions between disease and the peoples of America from the pre-Columbian world to the present. Grob's ultimate lesson is stark but valuable: there can b…	OL3952340W
The ivory leg in the ebony cabinet	Thomas Cooley	"From Samuel Morton's collection of Native American skulls to William James's writings on the consciousness of lost limbs, this book examines a startling array of artifacts that reflect nineteenth-ce…	OL4082614W
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
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
Mystery, Magic and Medicine	Howard Wilcox Haggard	A concise history of scientific medicine. Copiously illustrated. There is probably no more fascinating story than that of the rise of scientific medicine. Its beginnings were in mystery and superstit…	OL6329884W
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
Medical heroes and heretics	Wayne Martin	An account of the history of medical giants whose cancer-related discoveries met with inevitable rejection by the establishment. Includes Max Gerson, John Beard, William Kelley, William Coley, Ernst …	OL7093057W
Wisconsin Medicine	Ronald L. Numbers,Judith Walzer Leavitt	The March of medicine through Wisconsin is a fascinating story, full of triumph and failure, heroes and quacks, and -- overriding all -- stuttering steps toward a modern system of health care that ha…	OL8511493W