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Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics

By Andrew J. Hogan

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Hardcover:

9781421420745 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, November 1, 2016, cover price $40.00

Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine

By Jeremy A. Greene

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Hardcover:

9781421414935 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 20, 2014, cover price $29.95

9780373046805, titled "Little Darling" | Large print edition (Harlequin Mills & Boon, February 1, 2001), cover price $23.95 | also contains Little Darling

Paperback:

9781421421643 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 1, 2016), cover price $24.95

A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples

By Randall M. Packard

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Hardcover:

9781421420325 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 28, 2016, cover price $65.00

Paperback:

9781421420332 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 28, 2016), cover price $35.00

The Path of Modern Yoga: The History of an Embodied Spiritual Practice

By Elliott Goldberg

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Hardcover:

9781620555675 | Inner Traditions, August 1, 2016, cover price $39.95

Heredity Explored: Between Public Domain and Experimental Science 1850 - 1930

Product Description: Investigations of how the understanding of heredity developed in scientific, medical, agro-industrial, and political contexts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.This book examines the wide range of scientific and social arenas in which the concept of inheritance gained relevance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...read more

By Christina Brandt (editor)

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9780262034432 | Mit Pr, July 8, 2016, cover price $49.00 | About this edition: Investigations of how the understanding of heredity developed in scientific, medical, agro-industrial, and political contexts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Scientific Research in World War II: What Scientists Did in the War

Product Description: This book seeks to explore how scientists across a number of countries managed to cope with the challenging circumstances created by World War II. No scientist remained unaffected by the outbreak of WWII. As the book shows, there were basically two opposite ways in which the war encroached on the life of a scientific researcher...read more

By Hans Hooijmaijers (editor) and Ad Maas (editor)

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9780710313409 | Routledge, February 12, 2009, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: This book seeks to explore how scientists across a number of countries managed to cope with the challenging circumstances created by World War II.

Paperback:

9781138995956 | Routledge, February 29, 2016, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: This book seeks to explore how scientists across a number of countries managed to cope with the challenging circumstances created by World War II.

Discovering Tuberculosis: A Global History 1900 to the Present

By Christian W. Mcmillen

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9780300190298, titled "Discovering Tuberculosis: A Global History, 1900 to the Present" | Yale Univ Pr, June 30, 2015, cover price $28.00

Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio

Product Description: The story of mankind's struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medicine, it was a battleground between good and bad science.Â Gareth Williams takes an original view of the journey to understanding and defeating polio...read more

By Ray Loadman (illustrator) and Gareth Williams

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9781137299758 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, July 17, 2013), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The story of mankind's struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes.

Paperback:

9781137506580 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, June 27, 2013), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The story of mankind's struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes.

Frances Tustin Today

By Theodore Mitrani (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781138820449 | Routledge, February 25, 2015, cover price $210.00

Paperback:

9781138820456 | Routledge, March 5, 2015, cover price $47.95

Catching Cancer: The Quest for Its Viral and Bacterial Causes

Product Description: Catching Cancer introduces readers to the investigators who created a medical revolutionâa new way of looking at cancer and its causes. Featuring interviews with notable scientists such as Harald zur Hausen, Barry Marshall, Robin Warren, and others, the book tells the story of their struggles, their frustrations, and finally the breakthroughs that helped form some of the most profound changes in the way we view cancer...read more

By Claudia Cornwall

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9781442215214 | Reprint edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, September 19, 2014), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Catching Cancer introduces readers to the investigators who created a medical revolutionâa new way of looking at cancer and its causes.

A History of Modern Psychology

By C. James Goodwin

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Hardcover:

9781118011454 | 4th edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, December 20, 2011), cover price $213.00

9780470129128 | 3 edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, March 3, 2008), cover price $200.25

9780471658191, titled "History of Modern Psychology" | 2 edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, October 30, 2004), cover price $91.95

9780471415657 | 2 edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 20, 2004), cover price $153.40

Paperback:

9781118833759 | 5th edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, January 20, 2015), cover price $214.45

9780471128052 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, July 1, 1998, cover price $95.15

Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare: A Critical Historical Survey

Product Description: Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare creates a comprehensive and systematic international survey of various perspectives on healthcare quality management together with some of their most pertinent critiques. It reviews the factors which have underpinned the managerialist trajectory of healthcare management over the past decades...read more

By Sara Melo

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9781137351982 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 21, 2014, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare creates a comprehensive and systematic international survey of various perspectives on healthcare quality management together with some of their most pertinent critiques.

Hysteria: The Rise of an Enigma

Product Description: Hysteria is probably the condition which best illustrates the tight connection between neurology and psychiatry. While it has been known since antiquity, its renewed studies during the 19th century were mainly due to the work of Jean-Martin Charcot and his school in Paris...read more

By J. Bogousslavsky (editor)

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9783318026467 | S Karger Pub, June 23, 2014, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Hysteria is probably the condition which best illustrates the tight connection between neurology and psychiatry.

Madness and Memory: The Discovery of Prions--a New Biological Principle of Disease

By Stanley B. Prusiner, M. D.

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Hardcover:

9780300191141 | Yale Univ Pr, April 29, 2014, cover price $30.00

Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century: A History

By George Weisz

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Hardcover:

9781421413020 | 1 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, March 25, 2014), cover price $59.95

Paperback:

9781421413037 | 1 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, March 28, 2014), cover price $29.95

Hallelujah Moments: Tales of Drug Discovery

By Eugene H. Cordes

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9780199337149 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 28, 2014, cover price $31.95

Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010

By Charles T. Wolfe (editor)

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Hardcover:

9789400724440 | 1 edition (Springer Verlag, June 28, 2013), cover price $209.00

Paperback:

9789401781930, titled "Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-enlightenment Life Science 1800-2010" | Springer Verlag, May 20, 2013, cover price $209.00

Adrenaline

Product Description: Inducing highs of excitement, anger, and terror, adrenaline fuels the extremes of human experience. A rush empowers superhuman feats in emergencies. Risk-taking junkies seek to replicate this feeling in dangerous recreations. And a surge may literally scare us to death...read more

By Brian B. Hoffman

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9780674050884 | 1 edition (Harvard Univ Pr, April 15, 2013), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Inducing highs of excitement, anger, and terror, adrenaline fuels the extremes of human experience.

Toxicants, Health and Regulation Since 1945

Product Description: The number of substances potentially dangerous to our health and environment is constantly increasing. The papers in this volume examine the concurrent rise of pollutants and the regulations designed to police their use.

By Nathalie Jas (editor)

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9781848934030 | Pickering & Chatto Ltd, March 31, 2013, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: The number of substances potentially dangerous to our health and environment is constantly increasing.

Catching Cancer: The Quest for Its Viral and Bacterial Causes

By Claudia Maria Cornwall

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9781442215207 | 1 edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, March 22, 2013), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Catching Cancer introduces readers to the investigators who created a medical revolutionâa new way of looking at cancer and its causes.

Shock Therapy: The History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness

Product Description: Shock therapy is making a comeback today in the treatment of serious mental illness. Despite its reemergence as a safe and effective psychiatric tool, however, it continues to be shrouded by a longstanding negative public image, not least due to films such as the classic One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, where the inmate of a psychiatric clinic (played by Jack Nicholson) is subjected to electro-shock to curb his rebellious behavior...read more

By Edward Shorter

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Hardcover:

9780802093479 | Univ of Toronto Pr, October 30, 2007, cover price $48.95

9780813541693 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 30, 2007, cover price $34.95

Paperback:

9780813554259 | Reprint edition (Rutgers Univ Pr, January 18, 2013), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Shock therapy is making a comeback today in the treatment of serious mental illness.

X-Ray Vision: The Evolution of Medical Imaging and Its Human Significance

Product Description: The discovery of the x-ray in 1895 proved to be one of the most transformative breakthroughs in the history of science. It ushered in a new era in medicine, allowing physicians and patients to peer inside the living human body, without the use of a scalpel, to assess health and diagnose diseases...read more

By Richard B. Gunderman, M. D., Ph. D.

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9780199976232 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 27, 2012), cover price $73.00 | About this edition: The discovery of the x-ray in 1895 proved to be one of the most transformative breakthroughs in the history of science.

To Catch a Virus