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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The most fatal virus known to science, rabies-a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans-kills nearly one hundred percent of its victim...
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King”* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the...
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Heart: A History
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tickFor centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our und...
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Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /This renowned history of intersex in America has been comprehensively updated to reflect recent shifts in attitudes, bioethics, and medical and l...
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography "Janice P. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in al...
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Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /“Farber [is] a lucid and courageous witness to the power-play behind the first ‘scamdemic,’ . . . [Her] work is journalism at its best—solid, luc...
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Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no s...
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Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /“Comprehensive, encyclopedic, and lucid, this book is a must for all practitioners of the healing arts who want to broaden their understanding. R...
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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"A stirring tale of survival, thanks to man's best friend." —Seattle Times When a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925,...
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The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /“A monumental achievement” (New York Times) and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark h...
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While We Were Sleeping: Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /Public health has made our lives safer—but it often works behind the scenes, without our knowledge, that is, "while we are sleeping." This book p...
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Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /From the author of the best-selling The Man Who Knew Infinity, comes an unprecedented look at the traditional master-apprentice relationship aliv...
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Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s, has become a profound...
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Who Goes First?: The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine
PaperbackOriginal price $33.95 - Original price $33.95Original price $33.95$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /Lawrence Altman has authored the only complete history of the controversial and understudied practice of self-experimentation. In telling the sto...
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Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Icons of Life tells the engrossing and provocative story of an early twentieth-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's proj...
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This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine
PaperbackOriginal price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Throughout history women have practiced the art of medicine and healing. Yet they have always faced difficulties in the medical profession—not on...
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The Mirage of Health: Utopia, Progress, and Biological Change / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /'Complete freedom from disease and from struggle is almost incompatible with the process of living, ' Rene Dubos asserted in this classic essay o...
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Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
HardcoverOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no s...
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Diagnosing Giants: Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World
HardcoverOriginal price $46.99 - Original price $46.99Original price $46.99$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Could Lincoln have lived? After John Wilkes Booth fired a low-velocity .44 caliber bullet into the back of the president's skull, Lincoln did not...
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American Plagues: Lessons from Our Battles with Disease
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, and polio, fearful diseases that once beset Americans, are now largely, just unhappy history. Yet from our confr...
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A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey
HardcoverOriginal price $57.00 - Original price $57.00Original price $57.00$71.99$71.99 - $71.99Current price $71.99| /He has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Michael DeBakey rose from humble beginnings in a bac...
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Privacy and the Past: Research, Law, Archives, Ethics
HardcoverOriginal price $60.95 - Original price $60.95Original price $60.95$75.99$75.99 - $75.99Current price $75.99| /When the new HIPAA privacy rules regarding the release of health information took effect, medical historians suddenly faced a raft of new ethical...
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Osler: Inspirations from a Great Physician / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $84.00 - Original price $84.00Original price $84.00$100.99$100.99 - $100.99Current price $100.99| /Sir William Osler (1849-1919), one of the world's most influential physicians at the turn of the twentieth century, remained popular long after h...
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Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /An analysis of the efforts of American nurses to establish nursing as an academic discipline and nurses as valued researchers in the decades afte...
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