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In Her Own Right: The Institute of Medicine's Guide to Women's Health
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,...
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: Medical History of Humanity
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...
University College Hospital And Its Medical School: A History
$20.00 AUD
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...
The Ceremonial Order Of The Clinic: Parents, Doctors And Medical Bureaucracies
$30.00 AUD
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...
American Medical Schools And The Practice Of Medicine: A History
$30.00 AUD
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...
'An Ornament To The City': The Royal Victorian Eye And Ear Hospital
$30.00 AUD
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,...
From Charity To Teaching Hospital
$20.00 AUD
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...
A History Of Pharmacy
$50.00 AUD
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...
Triumphs Of Medicine
$20.00 AUD
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...
Successful Leadership in Academic Medicine
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...
From Charity To Teaching Hospital: Ella Latham's Presidency 1933–1954
$12.00 AUD
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 Melbourne Medical School 1862-1962
$25.00 AUD
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...
Medicine Rational And Irrational
$20.00 AUD
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...
Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine
$250.00 AUD
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A Place On The Hill: The History Of St Vincent's Private Hospitals In Melbourne 1906–93
$20.00 AUD
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...
Just an Ounce of Prevention...Is Worth a Pound of Cure: A Modern Guide
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...
Five Patients: The Hospital Explained
$35.00 AUD
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...
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 Extra Pharmacopoeia: Vol. I & Vol. Ii, Twenty-Second Edition
$80.00 AUD
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...
The Origins of Modern Science: From Antiquity to the Scientific
The Origins of Modern Science is the first synthetic account of the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution in many decades. Providing readers of all backgrounds and...
Being There: Nursing At 'The Melbourne' Victoria's First Hospital
$20.00 AUD
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...
Australian Nurses Since Nightingale: 1860 – 1990 (SIGNED)
$45.00 AUD
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:...
Clinical Problems Of War
$30.00 AUD
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...
Noble Conspirator: Florence S. Mahoney and the Rise of the National
$25.00 AUD
The book titled Noble Conspirator: Florence S. Mahoney and the Rise of the National by the author Judith Robinson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
This Living and Immortal Thing
'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....
Australian Nurses Since Nightingale 1860-1990
$15.00 AUD
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...
The Hospital South Of The Yarra: A History Of Alfred Hospital Melbourne From Foundation To The Nineteen-Forties
$20.00 AUD
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...
Pansy: A Life of Roy Douglas Wright
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Peter McPhee Format: Paperback...
All Care And Responsibility: A History Of Nursing In Victoria 1850-1934
$25.00 AUD
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,...
CSI Has Told You Lies
Meshel Laurie, host of the incredibly successful Australian True Crime podcast speaks to the forensic pathologists, homicide detectives, defence barristers and victims' families in this moving and gripping study of...
Soviet Psychiatric Abuse: The Shadow Over World Psychiatry
$40.00 AUD
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...
Mother Mary Berchmans Daly: Foundress Of St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
$50.00 AUD
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...
Jane Bell, O.B.E. (1873–1959): Lady Superintendent The Royal Melbourne Hospital (1910–1934)
$25.00 AUD
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...
Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth
Author: Clyde W. Ford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 "Ford's overlap of past and present, narrative and commentary is masterful, and makes this volume all the more valuable to...
Official Handbook For Pharmacists
$60.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Board is damaged as per photo, tanning and foxing to...
A Century Of Compassion: A History Of The Austin Hospital
$30.00 AUD
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...
The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine
$15.00 AUD
"His groundbreaking work has changed the very ways we consider our health and examine disease." --Barack Obama From Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institute of Health, 2007 recipient...
Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy
$10.00 AUD
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The History of Medicine in Twelve Objects
- '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,...
Walter And Eliza Hall Institute 1915-1965
$40.00 AUD
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...
Miracle Cure: a heart-poundingly tense and dramatic medical thriller that will get your pulse racing...
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Sir Victor Hurley: Surgeon, Soldier And Administrator 1888-1958
$25.00 AUD
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...