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Right to life. Right to choice. Masectomy, lumpectomy. Vitamin therapy, hormone therapy, aromatherapy. Tabloids, op-eds, Phil, Sally, Oprah. Yesterday, women confided in their doctors about health problems and received private,...

Medicine advances ever faster, and with it not just a capacity to overcome sickness, but to transform the very nature of life. Starting in ancient antiquity, this text charts how...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBehind the grand façade of Melbourne's Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital lies more than a century of medical innovation, human resilience,...

Author: William G. RothsteinBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsWilliam G. Rothstein's American Medical Schools And The Practice Of Medicine: A History chronicles the...

Dr. James D'Adamo burst onto the world of natural medicine in the 1970s with his revolutionary discovery of, and approach to, healing based on a person's blood type. Written in...

Author: P.M. StrongBinding: HardbackPublished: Routledge., 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThe academic work The Ceremonial Order Of The Clinic: Parents, Doctors And Medical Bureaucracies presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the humblest origins of charitable care to the cutting edge of modern medical education, From Charity to Teaching Hospital chronicles the remarkable transformation...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner details to FEP.Long before the modern pharmacy stood...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA landmark achievement in medical publishing, Triumphs of Medicine chronicles the most transformative breakthroughs in modern medical history, presenting a sweeping narrative of how...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: rip on jacket spineThis comprehensive historical account chronicles the origins and evolution of a prominent medical institution. It...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of narrative nonfiction, Five Patients chronicles Michael Crichton's firsthand observations as a medical student...

In 1675, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, an unlearned haberdasher from Delft, placed a drop of rainwater under his microscope and detected thousands of tiny animals in it. Leeuwenhoek proceeded to examine...

Edition: 22nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerA cornerstone of pharmaceutical literature, The Extra Pharmacopoeia — commonly known as Martindale — stands as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodA landmark institution stands at the heart of Australian medicine, and The Melbourne Medical School 1862–1962 chronicles its first century with scholarly...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the heart of Melbourne's medical history stands a remarkable story of transformation — From Charity to Teaching Hospital: Ella Latham's Presidency 1933–1954 chronicles...

The book titled Mixed Medical Bag: A Doctor Looks at Past and Present Quirks and by the author Jim Leavesley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

Good leadership in medicine is crucial, but unfortunately, often woefully inadequate. Those chosen to lead often have limited experience in leadership themselves, or worse, are appointed because of achievements that...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the annals of wartime medicine, few works stand as both a historical record and a clinical testament quite like...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsA compelling work at the intersection of health philosophy and medical critique, Medicine Rational and Irrational...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew institutions have shaped the soul of a city quite like a great hospital, and A Place on the Hill chronicles nearly nine decades...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the colonial wards of the 1860s to the modern hospitals of 1990, Australian Nurses Since Nightingale:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSouth of the Yarra River, in the heart of Melbourne, one institution quietly transformed the landscape of Australian medicine — The Hospital South of...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFounded in the late nineteenth century, the Austin Hospital has stood as one of Melbourne's most enduring pillars of medical excellence, and...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: N/A (paperback). Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. At the heart of Victoria's oldest and most storied medical institution, generations of nurses shaped...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the colonial wards of the 1860s to the modern hospitals of 1990, Australian Nurses since Nightingale 1860-1990...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAll Care and Responsibility: A History of Nursing in Victoria 1850–1934 chronicles the remarkable evolution of professional nursing in colonial and early twentieth-century Victoria,...

Author: Sidney Bloch And Peter ReddawayBinding: HardbackPublished: VICTOR GOLLANCZ LTD, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis seminal work, Soviet Psychiatric Abuse: The Shadow Over World Psychiatry, meticulously chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of faith, medicine, and colonial Australia stands Mother Mary Berchmans Daly — a woman...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the turn of the twentieth century, when nursing was still fighting for professional recognition, Jane Bell rose to become one of Australia's most...

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Author: Sir Gustav NossalBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne, The Miegunyah Press, 2007Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis authoritative historical account, Diversity And Discovery: The Walter And Eliza Hall Institute...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerNestled on the shores of Port Phillip Bay, Williamstown's storied community hospital stands as a testament to the enduring spirit of one...

Author: Macfarlane BurnetBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical account chronicles the foundational decades of a renowned medical research institution, detailing its...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodThe Scalpel, the Sword is the definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary and selfless humanitarians —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA life defined by duty, discipline, and distinction — Sir Victor Hurley: Surgeon, Soldier and Administrator 1888–1958 chronicles the remarkable career of one of Australia's...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA practical and accessible introduction to the world of medicine, Medicine for Beginners presents...

'My life is in your hands, doctor, they would sometimes say, which it never was ' This Living and Immortal Thing inhabits a world of medicine, research, cancer and death....

Author: May H. LesserBinding: HardbackPublished: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Dust jacket has general wear and a couple of very small tears/worn edges, previous owner...

- 'Sometimes gruesome, frequently fascinating, and on occasions very funny indeed' Mail on Sunday'...a medical and historical delight' Dr Hilary Jones 'A fabulous read. Written in a very engaging style,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA cornerstone of scientific and medical reference literature, Documenta Geigy: Scientific Tables (Sixth Edition) is an encyclopaedic compendium of quantitative data compiled and edited by Konrad...