Medicine & Disease
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Bodies of Knowledge [Paperback]
Sally Crawford (Author); Christina Lee (Author)
Regular Price: £19.00
Special Price: £10.00
ISBN: 9781407307145
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2170
Six papers which reassess medieval medicine. Contents: Rage Possession: A Cognitive Science Approach to Early English Demon Possession (Kirsten C. Uszkalo); Outlawry and Moral Perversion in Old Norse Society (Anne Irene Riis); Hermaphroditism ... .... Learn More -
Vitamin C for prevention of CRPS-I in traumatology and orthopaedic surgery [Paperback]
Paul E. Zollinger (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9789088900099
Published by : Sidestone Press
Complex regional pain syndrome type I (CRPS-I), formerly known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, can occur after a trauma to an arm or leg. CRPS is frequently seen after wrist fractures. The diagnosis of CRPS is based on clinical signs and sympt... .... Learn More -
Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing [Hardback]
Susan P. Mattern (Author)
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ISBN: 9780801888359
Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press
Galen is the most important physician of the Roman imperial era. Many of his theories and practices were the basis for medical knowledge for centuries after his death and some practices-like checking a patient's pulse-are still used today. He also... .... Learn More -
Tales from Kentucky Doctors [Hardback]
William Lynwood Montell (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780813124827
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
When Edmund Wilson died in 1972 he was widely acclaimed as one of America's great literary critics. But it was often forgotten by many of his admirers that he was also a brilliant and penetrating critic of American life. In a literary career spann... .... Learn More -
Sex, Aging, & Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium [Hardback]
M. Teresa Tavormina (Editor)
Regular Price: £96.00
Special Price: £24.95
ISBN: 9780866983358
Published by : Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society
Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.52 is one of the most important extant witnesses to vernacular medical and scientific writing in late medieval England. This two-volume collection of essays and texts opens with studies of the physical manuscript,... .... Learn More -
The Latin Alexander Trallianus: The Text and Transmission of a Late Latin Medical Book [Paperback]
D. R. Langslow (Author)
Regular Price: £65.00
Special Price: £6.95
ISBN: 9780907764328
Published by : Roman Society Publications
Series: JRS Monograph
Volume: 10
The present work offers an extensive introduction to the text and transmission of the ancient Latin version of the medical works "Therapeutica" and "On Fevers" of the great sixth-century Greek doctor Alexander of Tralles. The importance of the ... .... Learn More -
Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America's Most Valuable Plant [Hardback]
Kristin Johannsen (Author)
£30.50ISBN: 9780813123844
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Tales of alien abductions, miraculous relics, and haunted castles have attracted believers and skeptics across the globe for centuries. Paranormal investigator Joe Nickell tackles the world's most seemingly inexplicable myths in Adventures in Par... .... Learn More -
Health in Antiquity [Hardback]
Helen King (Author)
Regular Price: £93.99
Special Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9780415220651
Published by : Routledge
Some ancients believed that disease and ill-health came from Pandora's jar, as prescribed in myth, whilst others saw man as the protagonist of his own ill-health. This collection of fourteen essays on health in antiquity takes an approach which... .... Learn More -
Practitioners, Practices and Patients: New Approaches to Medical Archaeology and Anthropology [Paperback]
Patricia Anne Baker (Author); Gillian Carr (Author)
£38.00ISBN: 9781842170793
Published by : Oxbow Books
Medical care in the past, and indeed present societies, can be studied in a number of different ways, including palaeopatholoy, palaeobotany, literary evidence, material culture and different medical ideologies and belief systems. These 15 pape... .... Learn More -
PCBs: Recent Advances in Environmental Toxicology and Health Effects [Hardback]
Larry W. Robertson (Editor); Larry G. Hansen (Editor)
£95.00ISBN: 9780813122267
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Kentucky occupied an unusual position with regard to slavery during the Civil War as well as after. Since the state never seceded, the emancipation proclamation did not free the majority of Kentucky's slaves; in fact, Kentucky and Delaware were th... .... Learn More
