The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley
ISBN: 9780813122328 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tells the story of the infamous "Goat Gland Doctor" -- controversial medical charlatan, groundbreaking radio impresario, and prescient political campaigner -- and recounts his amazing rags to riches to rags career. A popular joke of the 1920s posed the question, "What's the fastest thing on four legs?" The punch line? "A goat passing Dr. Brinkley's hospital " It seems that John R. Brinkley's virility rejuvenation cure -- transplanting goat gonads into aging men -- had taken the nation by storm. Never mind that "Doc" Brinkley's medical credentials were shaky at best and that he... Tells the story of the infamous "Goat Gland Doctor" -- controversial medical charlatan, groundbreaking radio impresario, and prescient political ca... |
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181,70 zł |
G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II
ISBN: 9780813190792 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in the Second World War. She describes how over 60,000 army nurses, all volunteers, cared for sick and wounded American soldiers in every theater of the war, serving in the jungles of the Southwest Pacific, the frozen reaches of Alaska and Iceland, the mud of Italy and northern Europe, or the heat and dust of the Middle East. Many of the women in the Army Nurse Corps served in dangerous hospitals near the front lines -- 201 nurses... "Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the U.S. Army N... |
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136,28 zł |
Missions for Science: U.S. Technology and Medicine in America's Africa World
ISBN: 9780813530673 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Missions for Science traces the development and transfer of technology in four Atlantic regions with populations of predominantly African ancestry: the southern United States, the Panama Canal Zone, Haiti, and Liberia. David McBride explores how the pursuit of the scientific ideal, and the technical and medical outgrowths of this pursuit, have shaped African diaspora populations in these areas, asking: --What specific technologies and medical resources were transferred by U.S. institutions to black populations centers and why? --How did the professed aims of U.S. technical...
Missions for Science traces the development and transfer of technology in four Atlantic regions with populations of predominantly African a...
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247,32 zł |
Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science
ISBN: 9780813535319 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Ludwik Fleck Book Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science, 1995
Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of nature--one that embodied the sexual and racial tensions of that era. When plants were found to reproduce sexually, eighteenth-century botanists ascribed to them passionate relations, polyandrous marriages, and suicidal incest, and accounts of steamy plant sex began to infiltrate the botanical literature of the day. Naturalists also turned their attention to the great apes just becoming known to eighteenth-century... Winner of the Ludwik Fleck Book Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science, 1995
Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and pec... |
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201,89 zł |
The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States
ISBN: 9780816649402 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums--ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles--were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of American towns and cities. Many of these buildings were razed long ago, and those that remain stand as grim reminders of an often cruel system. For much of the nineteenth century, however, these asylums epitomized the widely held belief among doctors and social reformers that insanity was a curable disease and that environment--architecture in particular--was the most effective means of treatment.
In... Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums--ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles--were once a common sight... |
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A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo
ISBN: 9780822323662 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the colonial encounter paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, to reveal how concerns about strange new objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of colonialism and its aftermath in Mobutu s Zaire.
Relying on archival research in England and Belgium, as well as fieldwork in the Congo, Hunt reconstructs an ethnographic history of a remote... A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the colonial encounter parad...
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141,28 zł |
Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
ISBN: 9780822323976 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Race, Place, and Medicine" examines the impact of a group of nineteenth-century Brazilian physicians who became known posthumously as the Bahian Tropicalista School of Medicine. Julyan G. Peard explores how this group of obscure clinicians became participants in an international debate as they helped change the scientific framework and practices of doctors in Brazil.
Peard shows how the Tropicalistas adapted Western medicine and challenged the Brazilian medical status quo in order to find new answers to the old question of whether the diseases of warm climates were distinct from those... "Race, Place, and Medicine" examines the impact of a group of nineteenth-century Brazilian physicians who became known posthumously as the Bahian Trop...
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126,14 zł |
Raw Material: Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture
ISBN: 9780822326083 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrializing England s relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, Erin O Connor explores the industrial logic of disease, the dynamic that coupled pathology and production in Victorian thinking about cultural processes in general, and about disease in particular.
O Connor focuses on how four particularly troubling physical conditions were represented in a variety of... Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrializing England s r...
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464,35 zł |
Raw Material: Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture
ISBN: 9780822326168 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrializing England s relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, Erin O Connor explores the industrial logic of disease, the dynamic that coupled pathology and production in Victorian thinking about cultural processes in general, and about disease in particular.
O Connor focuses on how four particularly troubling physical conditions were represented in a variety of... Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrializing England s r...
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121,09 zł |
The Gifts of Civilization: Germs and Genocide in Hawaii
ISBN: 9780824814571 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In nine essays, Bushnell discusses the profound and various impacts on a long isolated people of infectious diseases brought by Captain James Cook in 1778 and subsequent visitors.
In nine essays, Bushnell discusses the profound and various impacts on a long isolated people of infectious diseases brought by Captain James Cook in ...
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153,46 zł |
Dr. Joe Bell: Model for Sherlock Holmes
ISBN: 9780879721985 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A distinguished physician and professor of medicine at Edinburgh University, and a forensic expert for the British Crown, Joseph Bell was well known for his powers of observation and deduction. This biography of Bell is intended for those interested in Victorian medicine, in the history of detective fiction, and in Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.
A distinguished physician and professor of medicine at Edinburgh University, and a forensic expert for the British Crown, Joseph Bell was well known f...
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115,17 zł |
America's Care of the Mentally Ill: A Photographic History
ISBN: 9780880485395 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume of photographs depicts the history of America's care of the mentally ill and the development of state mental hospitals. The text begins with the plight of the mentally ill in the 18th century and ends with a description of the 20th-century's rapid advances in treatment.
This volume of photographs depicts the history of America's care of the mentally ill and the development of state mental hospitals. The text begins wi...
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366,60 zł |
The Rise of Experimental Biology: An Illustrated History
ISBN: 9780896038356 / Angielski / Twarda / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Peter Lutz, PhD, brilliantly traverses the major milestones along the evolutionary path of biomedicine from earliest recorded times to the dawn of the 20th century. With an engaging narrative that will have you turning "just one more page" well into the night, this book revealingly demonstrates just how the modern scientific method has been shaped by the past. Along the way the reader is treated to some delightfully obscure anecdotes and a treasure trove of rich illustrations that chronicle the tortuous history of biomedical developments, ranging from the bizarre and amusing to the downright...
Peter Lutz, PhD, brilliantly traverses the major milestones along the evolutionary path of biomedicine from earliest recorded times to the dawn of the...
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388,20 zł |
Sixty-One Years of University of Michigan Pharmacology, 1942-2003
ISBN: 9780916182137 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Ethical Issues in Health Care on the Frontiers of the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781402003677 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. of UB's medical school, that UB developed its School of Arts and Sciences, and thus, assumed its place among the other institutions of higher education. Had Fillmore lived throughout UB's first seventy years, he would probably have been elated by the success of his university, and he should have been satisfied and pleased that UB remained intrinsically bonded to its community while at the same time engrafting the values and standards important to higher education's mission in the region. UB and its medical school have undergone many challenging transitions since 1846. Included among them...
of UB's medical school, that UB developed its School of Arts and Sciences, and thus, assumed its place among the other institutions of higher educatio...
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582,32 zł |
To Grasp the Essence of Life: A History of Molecular Biology
ISBN: 9781402010927 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 50 years of DNA double helix; what was before, and afterwards The present book, although written mainly for science students and research scientists, is also aimed at those readers who look at science, not for its own sake, but in search of a better understanding of our world in general. What were the fundamental questions asked by the early pioneers of molecular biology? What made them tick for decades, trying to elucidate the basic mechanisms of heredity and life itself? In each chapter, the development of a particular aspect of modern biology is described in a historical and... 50 years of DNA double helix; what was before, and afterwards The present book, although written mainly for science students and research sc... |
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Molecular and Structural Archaeology: Cosmetic and Therapeutic Chemicals
ISBN: 9781402014987 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent progress in the analysis and structural characterisation of materials has an increasing impact on studies of archaeological specimens. A need to embody such research into a new interdisciplinary field has appeared. In this ARW we intended to bring together archaeologists and historians with physicists, chemists, crystallographers and pharmacists, around the theme of structural information on complex archaeological materials. Within this vast area, the ARW has mainly focused on cosmetic-therapeutic chemicals. The objectives of this NATO ARW were twofold: - Delineating the contour of...
Recent progress in the analysis and structural characterisation of materials has an increasing impact on studies of archaeological specimens. A need t...
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776,43 zł |
Molecular and Structural Archaeology: Cosmetic and Therapeutic Chemicals
ISBN: 9781402014994 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent progress in the analysis and structural characterisation of materials has an increasing impact on studies of archaeological specimens. A need to embody such research into a new interdisciplinary field has appeared. In this ARW we intended to bring together archaeologists and historians with physicists, chemists, crystallographers and pharmacists, around the theme of structural information on complex archaeological materials. Within this vast area, the ARW has mainly focused on cosmetic-therapeutic chemicals. The objectives of this NATO ARW were twofold: - Delineating the contour of...
Recent progress in the analysis and structural characterisation of materials has an increasing impact on studies of archaeological specimens. A need t...
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776,43 zł |
Viruses vs. Superbugs: A Solution to the Antibiotics Crisis?
ISBN: 9781403987648 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Each year thousands of people die from bacteria resistant to antibiotics. Alternative drugs are urgently needed. A surprising ray of hope from the past are viruses that kill bacteria, but not us. Award-winning science journalist Thomas Hausler investigates how these long-forgotten cures may help sick people today.
Each year thousands of people die from bacteria resistant to antibiotics. Alternative drugs are urgently needed. A surprising ray of hope from the pas...
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194,08 zł |
Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870)
ISBN: 9781410202918 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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105,25 zł |