Authors
- American Medical Association
Publication date: 2008-12-31
Dewey code: 610
List Price: $750.00
Price: $656.34
Review Directory Of Physicians In The Us (Directory of Physicians in the United States) / American Medical Association Press:The 41st edition of the AMA Directory of Physicians in the United States is your one-stop source for physicians listings. This four volume hard-bound set, lists physicians alphabetically and geographically. Each physician listing contains valuable information on specialties, type of practice, medical school attended and certification. Unlike similar directories, the data in this essential resource is compiled from primary sources only-physicians and other professional organizations. The AMA applies time-tested, formal quality control procedures that check all data in its exclusive Masterfile. Our unique verification process is one of the most accurate in the industry.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1994-01
Dewey code: 616.9509
Price: $98.00
Review The Scars of Venus: A History of Venereology / Springer-Verlag Telos:University College, London, U. K. History of sexually-transmitted diseases, including the development of ideas on their cause, diagnosis, treatment and prevention. For physicians, infectious disease or public health practitioners, or historians. Illustrated.
Publication date: 1985-01-25
Price: $54.50
Review Doctors and Slaves: A Medical and Demographic History of Slavery in the British West Indies, 1680-1834 / Cambridge University Press:In this study Professor Sheridan presents a rich and wide-ranging account of the health care of slaves in the British West Indies, from 1680-1834. He demonstrates that while Caribbean island settlements were viewed by mercantile statesmen and economists as ideal colonies, the physical and medical realities were very different. The study is based on wide research in archival materials in Great Britain, the West Indies and the United States. By steeping himself in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sources, Professor Sheridan is able to recreate the milieu of a past era: he tells us what the slave doctors wrote and how they functioned, and he presents a storehouse of information on how and why the slaves sickened and died. By bringing together these diverse medical demographic and economic sources, Professor Sheridan casts new light on the history of slavery in the Americas.
Publication date: 1993-02
Dewey code: 610.92
List Price: $71.50
Price: $512.65
Review Brown-Sequard: A Visionary of Science / Raven Pr:The nineteenth-century physician and scientist Charles Edouard Brown-Sequard is a legendary figure in the history of science and medicine. This volume chronicles Brown-Sequard's life, appraises his scientific legacy, and gives a vivid account of his creative approach to research. The lucid writing and unique selection of illustrations and other archival material make this an enjoyable book to read and an ideal gift for a student, teacher, or colleague.
Creator: Melvin Ember
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-12-29
List Price: $649.00
Price: $649.00
Review Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures Topics - Volume 1; Cultures - Volume 2 / Springer:Medical practitioners and the ordinary citizen are becoming more aware that we need to understand cultural variation in medical belief and practice. The more we know how health and disease are managed in different cultures, the more we can recognize what is "culture bound" in our own medical belief and practice. The Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology is unique because it is the first reference work to describe the cultural practices relevant to health in the world's cultures and to provide an overview of important topics in medical anthropology. No other single reference work comes close to marching the depth and breadth of information on the varying cultural background of health and illness around the world. More than 100 experts - anthropologists and other social scientists - have contributed their firsthand experience of medical cultures from around the world. The encyclopedia consists of two volumes: Topics and Cultures. Volume 1, Topics covers:.
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Creator: Helen Bynum
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-12-30
Dewey code: 610
List Price: $749.95
Price: $722.09
Review Dictionary of Medical Biography [Five Volumes] / Greenwood Press:Treating and preventing disease has always been one of the most important tasks in a society, and that task ultimately falls to one of the most respected and admired figures in any culture-the healer. This respect is understandable -medical practictioners ease pain, prolong life, and prevent disesase, making them among the most important figures in the daily lives of people everywhere. The Dictionary of Medical Biography provides authoritative biographical coverage of major medical practitioners in all times and cultures. While its emphasis is on practitioners within the Western medical tradition, it also covers practitioners of alternative medicines, as well as major figures within traditional Chinese, Indian, and Islamic medicine. In addition, special essays survey these medical traditions, which are more difficult to appreciate within a biographical framework. Overall, the Dictionary of Medical Biography concentrates on the nuances of medical practice, and the social context within which ideas of health, disease, and therapy exist. At almost 1. 25 million words, the Dictionary of Medical Biography provides a comprehensive biographical dictionary of medicine: BLAlmost 1100 entries on almost every important figure in medicine who ever lived, written by the leading scholars in the field BLAlmost 400 scholars, researchers, and physicians contributed to the work, including many leaders in their medical fields BLExtensive overview essays on the important medical traditions of the world-e. g. Chinese, Indian, Islamic BLOver 300 images that depict medical practictioners and medical practices from around the world BLBibliographies that provide students and researchers the next step in learning about these individuals and their work The most complete work of its kind, the Dictionary of Medical Biography is essential for any library that serves those who seek to understand the importance of medicine in the lives of people everywhere.
Creator: Oswald Cockayne
Edition: Facsimile
Publication date: 2002-02
Dewey code: 900
List Price: $375.00
Price: $844.15
Review Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England: A Collection of Documents, For the most part never before printed, Illustrating the History of ... in this Country before the Norman Conquest / Thoemmes Continuum:Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England centres on an extraordinary range of Anglo-Saxon primary sources which had never been brought together in one collection. Thomas Oswald Cockayne (1807-73) was a philologist, a member of the innovative Philological and Early English Text Societies, and a keen student of the Anglo-Saxon language, a subject on which he published numerous works including Leechdoms. Originally published in 1864-6 by Longman as part of the Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages series, this highly collectable item is a valuable sourcebook for historians of the medieval period, medicine, science and language. Volume 1 of Leechdoms contains the Herbarium of Apuleius which lists the various ills and the corresponding plant remedies (i. e. the worts) for each illness, e. g. bishopswort, 'in case a man have a mind not to be drunken', and for 'monstrous nocturnal visitors and frightful sights and dreams' and 'bite of mad dog'. It also includes the English version of Medicina de quadrupedibus of Sextus Placidus, which describes the use of various kinds of animals and their bodies in medicine, e. g. [+]for oversleeping: 'a hares brain in wine given for a drink; wonderfully it amendeth' and for foot swellings: 'a hares lung bound on above and beneath; wonderfully the steps are healed'. The first volume also has a section on charms, 'for catching a swarm of bees' and 'for a bewitched land'. Volume 2 contains three leech books (medical texts), which list Greek and Latin authorities on medicine with prescriptions and recipes for ailments. Volume 3 resumes the immense collection of material on Western barbarian medicine (for example, remedies for headaches, insect stings and angina) and the Anglo-Saxon language, in addition to sections on Saxon mythology (such as the gods of Woden, Friya, Thor, Tiw and Valhalla) and interpretations of dreams and a horologium. The Thoemmes Press reprint of this informative and original work provides scholars with an intriguing insight into the medical philosophy of Saxon times.
Creator: Fernand Meyer
Publication date: 1992-10
Dewey code: 610.9515022
Price: $195.00
Review Tibetan Medical Paintings: Illustrations to the Blue Beryl Treatise of Sangye Gyamtso (1653-1705 : Plates and Text) / Harry N Abrams:
Creator: Lori Williamson
Edition: Facsimile Ed
Publication date: 1999-09
Dewey code: 609
List Price: $790.00
Price: $1,209.96
Review Florence Nightingale and the Birth of Professional Nursing (Western Influence on Japan) / Thoemmes Continuum:This is a new six-volume set of writings by Nightingale and her contemporaries on nursing and health care in nineteenth-century England. Topics include hospital nursing, district nursing and education, all of which underwent a transformation from the mid-nineteenth century onwards as nursing became professionalized and began to enjoy increased prestige, thanks in large part to the reforming efforts of Florence Nightingale. Nightingale's thoughts are supplemented by those of Elizabeth Garrett on hospital nursing, J. Clarke Jervoise on infection, Arthur Cotton on conditions in India, and Mrs Dacre Craven and William Rathbone on district nursing. Historically, Nightingale is an important figure in nursing and sanitary reform; she published copiously in these areas, using her own experiences in England and the Crimea as a basis for her critique of medicine and medical care and for her recommendations for improvement; she promoted the professionalization of nursing; she sought to improve the conditions of hospitals by actively promoting principles of sanitation; and she was elevated to the status of national heroine during the Crimean War. Nightingale was prominent as a critic, commentator and reformer of hospitals and nursing. Her writings address the relevant issues confronted by individuals who sought to elevate nursing to a respected profession, and they offer insight into what was perceived to be a woman's special role in the healing art, the often fraught nature of the nurse's relationship to medicine, and the sanitary conditions in hospitals and homes where people lived, died and nursed the ill. This major set is edited and introduced by Dr Lori Williamson, and will be of interest for academics in the history of medicine, nursing, sanitation, social welfare, and gender studies.
Authors
- American Medical Association
Publication date: 2006-11-30
Dewey code: 610
List Price: $1,550.00
Price: $1,550.00
Review Directory of Physicians in the US 2007 (AMA CD-ROM for 5 to 9 Users) / Amer Medical Assn; AMA Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-12-05
Dewey code: 153
List Price: $2,230.00
Price: $1,627.89
Review Emergence of Neuroscience in the Nineteenth Century / Routledge:This set covers the period when the brain was studied for the first time, reprinting 8 rare volumes covering the origins of neurology from 1803, when the brain was first identified as being the center of the mind, to 1906.
Creator: Pam Lieske
Publication date: 2008-06-30
Dewey code: 618.20094109033
List Price: $625.00
Price: $624.99
Review Eighteenth Century Midwifery / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:Scholars of the British Enlightenment who study obstetrical history traditionally focus on the rise of the male-midwife and competition between the sexes. By reprinting in facsimile primary texts on eighteenth-century midwifery and childbirth, this comprehensive twelve-volume collection gives readers a much deeper, more nuanced understanding of midwives, midwifery students, and women in labour. The set comprises pamphlets, treatises, lectures for midwifery students, texts on the establishment of lying-in hospitals, and catalogues of obstetrical apparatuses collected by male-midwives. Important themes include medical developments, 'freaks of nature', women's 'conduct' and the legal and societal implications of birth and motherhood. Gender is a central issue in works that address the efficacy and propriety of midwifery practice and whether men or women are best suited to the job. Works from popular or low culture feature: advertisements for midwives' services, medicinal cures, and monster births; texts on murderous female midwives and lewd male-midwives; and the 1726-27 correspondence on the 'rabbit-breeder', Mary Toft. Several significant works written by women stand out such as Catherine Elizabeth Weld's report of legal proceedings against her husband on the charge of impotency; and Elizabeth Nihell's Treatise on the "Art of Midwifery" (1760).
Authors
- American Medical Association
Publication date: 2000-12-15
Dewey code: 610
List Price: $645.00
Price: $645.00
Review Physician Socioeconomic Statistics CD-ROM 2000-2001 / American Medical Association:Expanded edition is a comprehensive reference on the results and methodology of the Socioeconomic Monitoring System (SMS) surveys. Replaces the two earlier publications Physician Marketplace Statistics and Socioeconomic Characteristics of Medical Practice. Data are derived from the 1999 SMS survey of nonfederal patient care physicians (excluding residents). Softcover.
Publication date: 1905
Review History of osteopathy,: And twentieth-century medical practice / Press of Jennings and Graham:
Creator: Lesley A. Hall
Edition: Facsimile Ed
Publication date: 2000-01-11
Dewey code: 808
List Price: $560.00
Price: $996.42
Review Marie Stopes: Birth Control and Other Writings / Thoemmes Continuum:'Lesley Hall is excellently qualified to edit and introduce this important collection of my mother's work. Her selection is well balanced. In particular I am glad that she has included A Journal from Japan, which introduces something of my mother's personality. '- Harry Stopes-RoeMarie Stopes (1880-1958) is primarily remembered as a pioneering propagandist for birth control, but her concern for contraception was deeply rooted in her conceptions of ideal motherhood and marriage. A concern with the issues with which she was identified in the 1920s can be seen in early works such as The Race, while Marriage in My Time indicates her involvement with a range of feminist campaigns aimed at ameliorating women’s lot in marriage even before the grant of suffrage in 1918 (for which she campaigned). The flood of queries which she received from correspondents in the wake of the publication of Married Love (1918) made her aware of the lack of help available from the medical profession in many routine events of the life cycle, and of the desperate need for accessible books on topics such as sex education and venereal disease. Prior to taking up the banner of sex and marriage reform Stopes had been a successful scientist, the first British woman to obtain the Ph. D. in botany and one of the first women to be appointed to a university lectureship in a science subject. She received funding from the Royal Society for an expedition to Japan to investigate living plant fossils, and the trip described in A Journal from Japan became the foundation of a life-long interest in Japanese life and culture. [+]Taken together the works published here illustrate the diversity of her writings and demonstrate her ability to frame her arguments towards specific audiences, from the over-burdened working-class mothers addressed in A Letter to Working Mothers to the medical professionals who were the target of Contraception. The set is edited and introduced by Stopes authority Lesley A. Hall, and as well as researchers in sex and gender history, it will appeal to anyone interested in this twentieth-century icon whose influence and legacy is still widely apparent today. -unique anthology selected from twenty-one works by Marie Stopes -including some rare first editions -authoritative range of writings on birth control, marriage, motherhood and Japanese life and culture -edited and introduced by well-known Stopes authority Lesley A. Hall of the Wellcome Library.
Edition: 3 Sub
Publication date: 1999-05-15
Dewey code: 611.018028
List Price: $105.00
Price: $10,294.35
Review Histological and Histochemical Methods: Theory and Practice / A Hodder Arnold Publication:The relations of chemical structures and reactions to fixation, tissue processing, staining, enzyme location, immunohistochemistry and other procedures are explained in simple, descriptive terms. As well as being a textbook, further references and more detailed information is available for those who wish to study a topic in more depth. For this new edition the author has updated the text with the latest techniques and developments within the field, whilst retaining the details of the classic techniques still in use.
Authors
- American Medical Association
Publication date: 1996-12
List Price: $545.00
Price: $544.80
Review Directory of Physicians in the United States / American Medical Association Press:Brandon/Hill Medical List selection (#133). Directory includes members and non-members of the AMA, including more than 800,000 physicians and doctors of osteopathy who are members of AMA.
Creator: J.C. Beaglehole
Publication date: 1999-11-26
Dewey code: 910.45
List Price: $1,990.00
Price: $1,990.00
Review The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery: Edited from the Original Manuscripts: Four Volumes and a Portfolio (Extra Series (Hakluyt Society), No. 34-37.) / Boydell Press:This classic set of three volumes in four books plus portfolio, edited from the original manuscripts, provides for the first time a complete, reliable and authoritative text of Cook's account of his voyages of discovery. Published over many years, complete sets of previous edition shave been hard to come by. This reissue makes more widely available to historians a vast range of material relating to all aspects of 18th-century scientific advances. The volumes contain Cook's accounts of his three great voyages in the Endeavour and the Resolution; introductions and detailed notes accompany the texts, and extracts from the journals of Cook's shipmates are printed as appendices. A separate portfolio contains the manuscript charts and views drawn by Cook and his officers, which he regarded as an essential complement to his Journals. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS (All 234 x 156 unless stated)I. The Voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771: 21 maps, 26 b/w illustrations, cclxxxiv + 696ppII. The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1772-1775: Col. frontis. , 20 maps, 62 b/w illustrations, clxx + 1028ppIII. [+]The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780i. Col. frontis. , 16 maps, 65 b/w illustrations, ccxxiv + 720pp;ii. 2 maps, 11 b/w illustrations, viii + 928ppPortfolio: Charts and Views Drawn by Cook and his Officers: 68 charts and views, viii + 68pp, 377 x 248.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-07-11
Dewey code: 615.19
Price: $284.95
Review Drug Prototypes and Their Exploitation / John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Import):This indispensable work analyzes approximately 150 pharmaceuticals, revealing the key prototype drugs from which all medicinal compounds currently used are derived. A unique "tree and branch" format indicates areas of possible future development as well as areas of neglect.
Edition: 35
Publication date: 1997
List Price: $745.00
Price: $745.00
Review Directory Of Physicians In The United States Single User Cd-rom / AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION:
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