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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Revolution in medicine	Lynnette Brent Sandvold	"Discusses the history of medicine, how the technology developed, and the science behind it"--Provided by publisher.	OL13691856W
Medical mysteries	Ann Reynolds	Medical Mysteries takes you to the front lines of the medical fringe, where absolutely anything is possibleFrom the files of the hit ABC primetime show Medical Mysteries comes this impossible-to-put-…	OL14934136W
The modulated scream	Cohen, Esther	This book provides an integral, readable account of changing attitudes toward pain in late medieval Europe. Since pain itself cannot be known, the book looks at pain by chronicling what people wrote …	OL15091800W
The last 100 years, medicine	Daniel Cohen	Highlights major developments in medicine such as the use of x-rays, certain now-common drugs, and many surgical techniques that have occurred over the last 100 years.	OL15218589W
The doctor	Katie Marsico	"Explore the life of a colonial doctor and his importance to the community, as well as everyday life, responsibilities, and social practices during that time"--Provided by publisher.	OL15444801W
Polio	David M. Oshinsky	[This book] tells the ... story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond.-Dust jacket.	OL16075437W
Mary Putnam Jacobi and the politics of medicine in nineteenth-century America	Carla Jean Bittel	In the late nineteenth century, as Americans debated the "woman question," a battle over the meaning of biology arose in the medical profession. Some medical men claimed that women were naturally wea…	OL16800272W
Your head shape reveals your personality!	Christine Zuchora-Walske	"What if someone told you that your liver pumped blood through your body? You'd think that person was crazy! Discover how thought about the human body has changed over the centuries."--	OL17897065W
Contagion	Andrew Robert Aisenberg	vii, 238 pages ; 22 cm	OL1950569W
Doctors: The Illustrated History of Medical Pioneers	Sherwin B. Nuland	The best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning How We Die chronicles the history of medicine through profiles of important physicians and research scientists and reviews key medical theor…	OL19641931W
Public Health In History	Virginia Berridge	Part of the Understanding Public Health series, this book offers a critical overview of public health in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as critical and long-term perspectives on current issues.	OL19897849W
Simpson	Morrice McCrae	"This is the story of one of the great events in the history of medicine. In 1847, challenging the firmly held convictions of the medical profession of the time, James Young Simpson demonstrated for …	OL19943775W
Strange medicine	Nathan Belofsky	Belofsky casts a gimlet eye on the practice of medicine through the ages and highlights the most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest blunders.	OL19968922W
Medicine and public health through time	Tony McAleavy,Derek Patterson	Written specifically for the new AQA Specification A, this text includes core coverage of major issues and topics featured in the Medicine Through Time course.	OL26283943W
Flu	Gina Kolata	The fascinating, true story of the world's deadliest disease. In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic felled the young and healthy virtually overnight. An estimated forty million people died as the epidemic …	OL2699188W
Learning to heal	Luz María Hernández Sáenz	"The professionalization of medicine in Mexico may be traced back to the eighteenth century when new European ideologies, organization of the Bourbon armies, and changing social values laid its found…	OL3244260W
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
Medicine and the Reign of Technology	Stanley Joel Reiser	Based chiefly on material from primary sources, this book describes some technological advances made in the art and practice of medicine during the past three centuries and shows how these advances h…	OL6691421W
Famous firsts in medicine	Bette Jean Crook	Surveys the history of medicine by introducing many of its "firsts:" the first abdominal surgery, the first woman doctor, the first antiseptic.	OL7207961W
Blood and Guts	Porter, Roy,Roy Porter	Mankind's battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects. This brief, witty and unusual book by Britain's greatest medical historian compresses into a tiny span a lifetime spent thinking about …	OL7969789W