Medicine & Disease
The archaeology and cultural backdrop to the study of medicine and disease from the ancient world to the present day.
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The Lung Block: Tuberculosis and Contested Spaces in Early Twentieth-Century New York [Hardback]
Adrienne deNoyelles (Author)
£46.50ISBN: 9780822947868
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environment
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Greek and Roman Medicine at the British Museum: The Instruments and Accoutrements of Ancient Medicine [Paperback]
Ralph Jackson (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861592326
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 232
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Strategies for the preservation of health and for the prevention and treatment of illness and disease have been discerned in the surviving written records and material remains of most societies since earliest times. Compared to the prehistoric pas... .... Learn More -
The Graft Hybrid: Challenging Twentieth-Century Genetics [Hardback]
Matthew Holmes (Author)
£51.50ISBN: 9780822947936
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
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Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain [Paperback]
Paula S. De Vos (Author)
£37.00ISBN: 9780822967255
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
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Winner, 2022 Edward Kremers AwardCompound Remedies examines the equipment, books, and remedies of colonial Mexico City’s Herrera pharmacy—natural substances with known healing powers that formed part of the basis for modern-day healing traditions ... .... Learn More -
Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science [Paperback]
Maya J. Goldenberg (Author)
£23.50ISBN: 9780822966906
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science, Values, and the Public
The public has voiced concern over the adverse effects of vaccines from the moment Dr. Edward Jenner introduced the first smallpox vaccine in 1796. The controversy over childhood immunization intensified in 1998, when Dr. Andrew Wakefield linked t... .... Learn More -
The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America [Hardback]
Diego Armus (Editor); Pedro F. Gómez (Editor)
£39.50ISBN: 9780822946854
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Health practitioners working in gray zones, or between official and unofficial medicines, played a fundamental role in the shaping of Latin America from the colonial period onward. The Gray Zones of Medicine offers a human, relatable, complex exam... .... Learn More -
Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–1914 [Hardback]
Kristin Hussey (Author)
£39.50ISBN: 9780822946861
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Since at least the eighteenth century, European administrators and officers, military men, soldiers, missionaries, doctors, wives, and servants moved back and forth between Britain and its growing imperial territories. The introduction of steam-po... .... Learn More -
China and the Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring Society under Mao [Paperback]
Xiaoping Fang (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780822966838
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward campaign organized millions of Chinese peasants into communes in a misguided attempt to rapidly collectivize agriculture with disastrous effects. Catastrophic famine lingered as the global cholera pandemic of the ea... .... Learn More -
Contemporary Public Health: Principles, Practice, and Policy [Paperback]
James W. Holsinger (Editor); Eli Capiluto (Author); F. Douglas Scutchfield (Author); Steven H. Woolf (Other); Paula Braveman (Other)
£27.00ISBN: 9780813180779
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
"Public health" refers to the management and prevention of disease within a population by promoting healthy behaviors and environments in an effort to create a higher standard of living. In this comprehensive volume, editor James W. Holsinger Jr. ... .... Learn More -
Fat Chance: Diet Mania, Greed, and the Infamous Fen-Phen Swindle [Hardback]
Rick Christman (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9781949669305
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
During the early 1990s, the diet drugs fen-phen and Redux achieved tremendous popularity. The chemical combination was discovered by chance, marketed with hyperbole, and prescribed to millions. But as the drugs' developer, pharmaceutical giant Ame... .... Learn More
