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The myth of the Negro past 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 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
Materials and Medicine 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
Clean 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
Medicine in Mexico Medicine in Mexico Gordon Schendel xiv, 329 pages : 24 cm OL161512W
Leonardo's foot 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 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 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 Revolutionary medicine, 1700-1800 C. Keith Wilbur Chronicles the treatments and theories of American medicine in the 18th century. OL1928343W
Extreme medicine Extreme medicine 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… OL19708318W
Grundriss der Geschichte der Medicin 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 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 The value of medicine Philip Rhodes 3-159 p. ; 23 cm OL2364847W
Daniel Drake and his followers 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
Notes of a medical maverick 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 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
The legacy of Egypt The legacy of Egypt 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… OL2647898W
Medicine and the German Jews 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
Disease and death in America 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 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
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