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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly
The spellbinding story of a visionary British surgeon who changed medicine forever In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when...
The Art of Not Eating: A Doubtful History of Appetite and Desire
A luminously original exploration of the deep roots of diet culture by an award-winning historian'A courageous and beautifully written exploration of a vitally important subject' The Herald'Fascinating' Katherine May'These books...
Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic
WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC RUNICMAN AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'A gloriously intimate tour of the body in antiquity' Gavin Francis'A...
Neuromuscular Technique: Practitioner's Guide to Soft Tissue Manipulation
$35.00 AUD
Author: Leon ChaitowBinding: SoftbackPublished: Thorsons Publishers Limited, 1983Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book serves as a comprehensive guide to neuromuscular techniques, focusing on the manipulation of...
Immune System: Genetics and Regulation
$100.00 AUD
Author: Sercarz, Eli E.; Herzenberg, Leonard A.; Fox, C. FredBinding: HardbackPublished: Academic Press, 1977, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the complexities...
Speech Protocols in Audiology
$40.00 AUD
Author: Ralph R. Rupp, Kenneth G. StockdellBinding: HardbackPublished: Grune & Stratton, 1980Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book serves as a comprehensive resource for speech...
Microorganisms and Human Disease
$180.00 AUD
Author: Ernest A. MeyerBinding: HardbackPublished: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1974Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions between microorganisms and human health....
Cobalamin - Biochemistry and Pathophysiology
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Author: Bernard M. Babior (ed.)Binding: HardbackPublished: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1975, First Edition, First Impression Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a...
Rickets (Nestle Nutrition Workshop Series)
$60.00 AUD
Author: Francis H. GlorieuxBinding: HardbackPublished: Raven Press, 1991Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book explores the nutritional aspects and implications of rickets, contributing to the Nestle...
The Telomerase Revolution: The Story of the Scientific Breakthrough
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Science is on the cusp of a revolutionary breakthrough. We now understand more about ageing - and how to prevent and reverse it - than ever before. In The Telomerase...
The Anatomists' Library: The Books that Unlocked the Secrets of the
The Anatomists Library is a fascinating chronological collection of the best anatomical books from six centuries, charting the evolution of both medical knowledge and illustrated publishing.There is a rich history...
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound
Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could offer by...
Taking Care: The Story Of Nursing And Its Power To Change Our World
"DiGregorio's storytelling is pitch-perfect; narrative and nursing, she understands, come from the same place and both are concerned with a deep understanding of character and plot....This is a brilliant book,...
Casanova's Guide to Medicine: 18th Century Medical Practice
Giacomo Casanova's (1725-1798) reputation as libertine has sadly eclipsed his talents as scholar, linguist, prolific writer and manque doctor. Fortunately for us, he wrote his memoirs at the end of...
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and
$12.00 AUD
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study." --NaturePrizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of...
Churchill's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
$40.00 AUD
Author: Elizabeth A. A. E. SutherlandBinding: HardbackPublished: Churchill Livingstone, 1989Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive medical dictionary provides clear definitions and illustrations of medical terms. It...
The Puzzle People: Memoirs Of A Transplant Surgeon (SIGNED)
$100.00 AUD
Author: Thomas E. StarzlBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis memoir provides an insightful look into the life...
Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare
A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK 2023'Prepare to be blown away' CHIKWE IHEKWEAZU, Assistant Director General at WHO'Important and ambitious' OBSERVERThis...
Cardiology and Cardiac Catheterisation: The Essential Guide
$50.00 AUD
Author: John Boland and David W.M. MullerBinding: HardbackPublished: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2001Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis publication demystifies many difficult topics in interventional cardiology and cardiac...
The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine
The Healthy Jew traces the culturally revealing story of how Moses, the rabbis, and other Jewish thinkers came to be understood as medical authorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
The Care Factor: A story of nursing and connection in the time of social distancing
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The Faber Book of Fevers and Frets
$20.00 AUD
Author: D. J. EnrightBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber & Faber Limited, 1989Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: UnblemishedPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe Faber Book of Fevers and Frets is an edited collection by D. J. Enright,...
Clinical Dental Prosthetics: Second Edition Completely Revised and Reset
$40.00 AUD
Author: H.R.B. Fenn, K.P. Liddelow, A.P. GimsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Staples Press, 1970, Second Revised edition: Fourth ImpressionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsClinical Dental Prosthetics focuses on the diagnosis,...
Healing Needles
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Author: Charles EwartBinding: HardbackPublished: Elm Tree Books, 1972Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Signed with inscriptionHealing Needles explores the art of acupuncture and its significance, highlighting the...
Wonder Drug: The Hidden Victims of America's Secret Thalidomide Scandal
Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-FictionThe shocking, never-before-told story of America's thalidomide victims In Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears. She...
Human Machine
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Physick to Physiology: Tales from an Oxford Life in Medicine
Author: Keith DorringtonFormat: Hardback, 236mm x 160mm, 640g, 288 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023A murder in Main Quad, a near demise high on Mont Blanc, the lady who...
Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery
Author: Henry MarshFormat: Hardback, 144mm x 215mm, 424g, 288 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2017THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLERHenry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline....
This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women
Author: Marieke Bigg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A hugely informative and quietly furious call to arms.' IRISH TIMES 'A ground-breaking new book.' EVENING STANDARD 'A must read.' DAILY...
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
Author: Kate SummerscaleFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 200g, 256 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANIACSA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES,...
Flowers in Winter: Defeating Cancer - a Westerner's Chinese Journey
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Hydrophthalmia or, Congenital Glaucoma
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The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy
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Raising the Dead: The Men Who Created Frankenstein
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A Profession's Pathway: Nursing at St Vincent's Since 1893
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How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness
Author: Katherine D. Van Schaik Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The second-century Greek physician Galen - the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates - is a central figure...
My Age of Anxiety
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The Mould In Dr Florey's Coat: How Penicillin Began the Age of Miracle Cures
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How to Make a Killing: Death, Dollars and the Business of Blood
Author: Tom Mueller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Six decades ago, researchers achieved the impossible: developing a treatment that transformed kidney failure from a death sentence to a manageable...
Something Out of Place: Women & Disgust
Author: Eimear McBride Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'A fearless, interrogative work ... A fierce and fascinating manifesto in McBride's persuasive prose' - Sinead Gleeson Here, Eimear McBride unpicks...
Through A Vet's Eyes: How to care for animals and treat them better
Author: Dr Sean Wensley, FRCVS Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 One of the Financial Times' Best Summer Books of 2022 'A compelling account of the trials, tribulations and triumphs...
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History
Author: Peter Furtado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox that ravaged Europe...
Angels of Death: Exploring the Euthanasia Underground
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Women's Work: A personal reckoning with labour, motherhood, and privilege
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The Johns Hopkins Guide to Diabetes: For Today and Tomorrow
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A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
Author: Perri Klass (New York University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Only one hundred years ago, even in the world's wealthiest nations, children died in great numbers?of diarrhea, diphtheria,...
Crossing into Medicine Country: A Journey in Native American Healing
Author: David Carson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Here is David Carson's personal story of his initiation into the healing rites of the Choctaw with medicine woman Mary Gardener....
Casanova's Guide to Medicine: 18th Century Medical Practice
Author: Lisetta Lovett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Giacomo Casanova's (1725-1798) reputation as libertine has sadly eclipsed his talents as scholar, linguist, prolific writer and manque doctor. Fortunately for...