Category - Medical
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Religion and Medicine: A History of the Encounter Between Humanity's Two Greatest Institutions
HardcoverOriginal price $42.99 - Original price $42.99Original price $42.99$56.99$56.99 - $56.99Current price $56.99| /Though the current political climate might lead one to suspect that religion and medicine make for uncomfortable bedfellows, the two institutions h...
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Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /See the greatest medical breakthroughs come to life through superb illustrations!From ancient herbal medicine to traditional Chinese medicine, take...
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The Curious History of the Heart: A Cultural and Scientific Journey
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body. In cultures around the world, the heart--not ...
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers--some wil...
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Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks...
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How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Six decades ago, visionary doctors achieved the impossible: the humble kidney, acknowledged since ancient times to be as essential to life as the h...
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The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Now an LA Times Book Prize finalist: a timely and fascinating account of the raucous public demand for smallpox inoculation during the American Rev...
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The Gene: An Intimate History
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /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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Egg: A Dozen Ovatures
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The egg is a paradox--both alive and not alive--and a symbol as old as culture itself. In this wide-ranging and delightful journey through its natu...
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The Masters of Medicine: Our Greatest Triumphs in the Race to Cure Humanity's Deadliest Diseases
HardcoverOriginal price $31.95Original price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /An in-depth look at the mavericks, moments, and mistakes that sparked the greatest medical discoveries in modern times--plus the cures that will he...
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is "an extraordinary achievement" (The New Yor...
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A Surgeon and a Maverick: The Life and Pioneering Work of Magdi Yacoub
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /"[A] remarkable journey."--The Telegraph The incredible life story of legendary cardiac surgeon and scientist Magdi Yacoub, an outsider who succee...
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Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE SELECTION "A propulsive, utterly engrossing history... None of it is simple and all of it is captivating."--The New...
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This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /'A vital subject that needs to be discussed -KATY HESSEL, AUTHOR OF THE STORY OF ART WITHOUT MEN 'A valuable sociological perspective on women's bo...
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Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A Telegraph Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable WorkA Times Book of the YearA Hughes Award Finalist "An indisputable masterpiece...comprehens...
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Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780063071292 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Publication Date: 05-07-2024 Pages: 320 Product Dim...
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The extraordinary account of James Garfield's rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his a...
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize! Named a New York Times Notable Book ...
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is "an extraordinary achievement" (The New Yor...
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The Girl in the Iron Lung: The Dianne O'Dell Story
HardcoverOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781956027679 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Acclaim Press, Inc. Publication Date: 11-15-2023 Pages: 160 Product Dimensio...
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Remarkable Women of the Finger Lakes
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The majesty of New York's Finger Lakes region has produced some equally majestic women who have left their mark on American history. From women med...
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Tools and the Organism: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations of human anatomy and its operat...
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Do I Know You?: From Face Blindness to Super Recognition
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /A fascinating history of how we recognize faces--or fail to recognize them.In Do I Know You? Sharrona Pearl explores the fascinating category of fa...
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Becoming Dr Jones: A Wild Life
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /'Inspirational' - Professor Alice Roberts'Engrossing' - Professor Ben GarrodRhys Jones was brought up on a council estate in South Wales where ex...
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