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The myth of the Negro past
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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… |
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Women gain a place in medicine
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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… |
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Materials and Medicine
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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 … |
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Clean
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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… |
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Medicine in Mexico
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Gordon Schendel |
xiv, 329 pages : 24 cm |
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Leonardo's foot
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Carol Ann Rinzler |
Step right up for a toe-curling cultural biography of humanity's earthbound extremity! |
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History of medicine in India
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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. |
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Health and science
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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… |
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Revolutionary medicine, 1700-1800
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C. Keith Wilbur |
Chronicles the treatments and theories of American medicine in the 18th century. |
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Extreme medicine
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Kevin Fong |
An anesthesiologist and NASA adviser explores how pioneering doctors and scientists have built on findings about the body's response to extreme environments and physical challenges to develop such me… |
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Grundriss der Geschichte der Medicin
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Lajos Ádám,Heinrich Haeser |
Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. |
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The body in question
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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 … |
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The value of medicine
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Philip Rhodes |
3-159 p. ; 23 cm |
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Daniel Drake and his followers
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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… |
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Notes of a medical maverick
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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… |
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Christiaan Barnard
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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… |
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The legacy of Egypt
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J. R. Harris |
This completely revised edition of a classic study of ancient Egypt takes full account of recent scholarly work. Tracing the values and achievements of the early inhabitants of the Nile valley, the l… |
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Medicine and the German Jews
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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… |
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Disease and death in America
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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… |
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The ivory leg in the ebony cabinet
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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… |
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