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Florence Nightingale: The Nightingale School: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 12
HardcoverOriginal price $150.00 - Original price $150.00Original price $150.00$172.99$172.99 - $172.99Current price $172.99| /Although Florence Nightingale is famous as a nurse, her lifetime’s writing on nursing is scarcely known in the profession. Nursing professors ten...
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Yellow Emperor's Classic Of Medicine, The - Essential Questions: Translation Of Huangdi Neijing Suwen
HardcoverOriginal price $188.00 - Original price $188.00Original price $188.00$203.99$203.99 - $203.99Current price $203.99| /Huangdi Neijing, also known as Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, has played a pivotal role in traditional Chinese medical education for about two t...
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Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /How the FDA was shaped by public health crises and patient advocacy, told against a background of the contentious hearings on the breast cancer d...
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A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A prismatic examination of the evolution of medicine, from a trade to a science, through the exemplary lives of ten men and women. Johns Hopkins Un...
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Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Paul Craddock's Spare Parts offers an original look at the history of medicine itself through the rich, compelling, and delightfully macabre story ...
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The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A New York Times BestsellerFinalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize Named a best book of the year by The Guardian "Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking....
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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"All disasters are in some sense man-made." Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are gett...
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Histories of Hiv/AIDS in Western Europe: New and Regional Perspectives
HardcoverOriginal price $130.00 - Original price $130.00Original price $130.00$151.99$151.99 - $151.99Current price $151.99| /This edited collection showcases exciting new work on lesser-known histories of HIV/AIDS, from the earliest days of the crisis to the present day. ...
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The Itch: Scabies
PaperbackOriginal price $42.99 - Original price $42.99Original price $42.99$56.99$56.99 - $56.99Current price $56.99| /Scabies is a parasitic disease caused by the human itch mite Sarcoptes scabiei, which burrows through the skin leading to an intensely itchy rash. ...
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Sane Asylums: The Success of Homeopathy Before Psychiatry Lost Its Mind
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /- Examines the success of homeopathic psychiatric asylums in the United States from the 1870s until 1920 - Focuses on New York's Middletown State H...
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Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how women--...
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Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $48.99 - Original price $48.99Original price $48.99$62.99$62.99 - $62.99Current price $62.99| /To fend off American and European imperialism in the nineteenth century, Japan strove to strengthen itself by drawing on the most updated ideas and...
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Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR
HardcoverOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Enriched by color reproductions of tobacco advertisements, packs, and anti-smoking propaganda, Cigarettes and Soviets provides a comprehensive stud...
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Why Wellness Sells: Natural Health in a Pharmaceutical Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /How and why the idea of wellness holds such rhetorical--and harmful--power.In Why Wellness Sells, Colleen Derkatch examines why the concept of wel...
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The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to Covid-19
HardcoverOriginal price $43.99 - Original price $43.99Original price $43.99$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /A physician and historian of science and medicine at the National Institute of Health tells the hidden story of how plagues and pandemics shaped th...
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Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From an eminent surgeon and historian comes the "by turns fascinating and ghastly" (The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice) story of surge...
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American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author's quest to understand the source of h...
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Living Medicine: Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A sweeping biography of the visionary behind bone marrow transplantation and the story of the diseases cured by Don Thomas's discovery. In the las...
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A History of Medical Libraries and Medical Librarianship: From John Shaw Billings to the Digital Era
PaperbackOriginal price $42.99 - Original price $42.99Original price $42.99$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /This book covers the history of medical libraries and librarianship from the founding of the Medical Library Association in 1898 to today. The auth...
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year from the author of Extra Life "By turns a ...
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Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers i...
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The Gene: An Intimate History
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ...
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The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A New York Times Bestseller"Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hit this one out of the park." --Erik...
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The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /How the very fact of being human makes us vulnerable to pandemics—and gives us the power to save ourselves.The COVID-19 pandemic won’t be our las...
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