Following his hugely successful The Math Book and The Physics Book, Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events.
Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history.
The dramatic, untold story of the discovery of the first wonder drug, the men who led the way, and how it changed the modern worldIn his wonderfully engaging book, acclaimed author Eric Lax tells the real story behind the discovery and why it took so long to develop the drug.
Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history.
THE ASTROLOGY OF SELF DISCOVERY provides guidance for achieving self-development through attunement to planetary influences and gives direction to those struggling with life's issues.
Following decades of silence about the involvement of doctors, medical researchers and other health professionals in the Holocaust and other National Socialist (Nazi) crimes, scholars in recent years have produced a growing body of research that reveals the pervasive extent of that complicity.
This book examines the striking way in which medical and scientific work on hearing in 18th and 19th-century France helped to shape modern French society and culture.
In the new edition of this unique professional resource, hospice and palliative care team members-especially social workers and counselors-will find the empirical evidence and compassionate advice they need to provide excellent holistic psychosocial care to individuals who are dying or bereaved.
Compte tenu de l'intérêt suscité par la médecine chinoise en Europe, cet ouvrage présente pour la première fois une analyse de l'histoire des idées en médecine chinoise depuis ses débuts, il y a plus de deux millénaires jusqu'à nos jours, associée à une comparaison avec l'histoire de la médecine occidentale.
Named as Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2012 From Hippocrates to Lillian Wald the stories of scientists whose work changed the way we think about and treat infection.
Named as Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2012 From Hippocrates to Lillian Wald the stories of scientists whose work changed the way we think about and treat infection.
"e;Modern Medicine in the Holy Land"e; provides an in-depth assessment of the pioneering work of British Hospitals in Palestine in the nineteenth century, and finds these institutions made great contributions to the modernization of the country.
A rebellious Indian proclaiming noble ancestry and entitlement, a military lieutenant foreshadowing the coming of revolution, a blasphemous Creole embroiderer in possession of a bundle of sketches brimming with pornography.
A rebellious Indian proclaiming noble ancestry and entitlement, a military lieutenant foreshadowing the coming of revolution, a blasphemous Creole embroiderer in possession of a bundle of sketches brimming with pornography.
From the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Louis Pasteur, the French chemist and the father of modern medicine.
Verity Holloway’s nineteenth-century cousin Thomas Holloway’s patent medicine empire was so ubiquitous, Charles Dickens commented that if you’d murdered someone with the name Holloway, you’d think their spirit had come back to torment you.
