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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells--taken without her knowledge in 1951--became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. Henrietta's cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can't afford health insurance. This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the...

Moses Maimonides is among the most celebrated rabbis in the history of Judaism and the author of enduring works on philosophy, law, and medicine. "Medical Aphorisms" is the best known and most comprehensive of his works, and Gerrit Bos offers here a masterly English translation with detailed annotations.

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"Medical Aphorisms" consists of approximately 1,500 maxims compiled by Maimonides from the treatises of Galen, the ancient Greek physician. Maimonides arranges the aphorisms into twenty-five treatises, organizing them by traditional medieval subspecialties such as gynecology,...

Scurvy, a disease often associated with long stretches of maritime travel, generated sensations exceeding the standard of what was normal. Eyes dazzled, skin was morbidly sensitive, emotions veered between disgust and delight. In this book, Jonathan Lamb presents an intellectual history of scurvy unlike any other, probing the speechless encounter with powerful sensations to tell the story of the disease that its victims couldn't because they found their illness too terrible and, in some cases, too exciting.

Drawing on historical accounts from scientists and voyagers as well as major...

Der Autor, selbst bedeutender Handchirurg und Wegbereiter der Handchirurgie in Deutschland, konnte aufgrund seiner zahlreichen Kontakte und freundschaftlichen Verbindungen diese aussergewohnlichen Biographien fur dieses Buch erstellen.
Es ist ihm gelungen, auch jeweils Portraitfotos zu bekommen, die in diesem Band mit aufgenommen wurden.

Mit dieser Sammlung liegt ein medizinhistorisch interessantes und beachtenswertes Werk vor.

Much like consumers today, late-19th-century Londoners lived in a mass culture of commodified abundance and conspicuous consumption. Their consumer fetishism was fully represented by their avid pursuit of health-related services and medicinal goods--the market was rife with brand-name patent medicines such as Dr. Scott's Little Liver Pills and Dr. William's Pink Pills for Pale People, and city-dwellers frequently bought patented medico-electrical appliances such as Pulvermacher's Electric Chains or Harness' Electropathic Belt.

In this highly original book Takahiro Ueyama recounts a...

The book begins in the mid-nineteenth century, when American medical...