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The Professor of Secrets : Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy by William Eamon
Call Number: R147.F56 E26 2010
ISBN: 9781426206504
Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room by Judith Leavitt
Call Number: RG652 .L38 2009
ISBN: 9780807832554
Unspeakable; Father-Daughter Incest in American History by Lynn Sacco
Call Number: HV6570.7 .S33 2009
ISBN: 9780801893001
Polio by Daniel J. Wilson
Call Number: RC180.2 .W473 2009
ISBN: 9780313358975
Years of Change and Suffering: Modern Perspectives on Civil War Medicine by James M. Schmidt
Call Number: E621 .Y436 2009
ISBN: 9781889020358
Breast Beating: A Personal Odyssey in the Quest for an Understanding of Breast Cancer, the Meaning of Life, and Other Easy Questions by Michael Baum
Call Number: RC280.B8 B38 2010
ISBN: 9781848290426
Internet Archive
Good source for old and rare books, including WVU Monticola and WVU Health Sciences Pylons yearbooks.
Core History of Medicine Titles
A Short History of Medicine by Erwin H. Ackerknecht
Call Number: R131 .A34 1982
ISBN: 0801827264
Since it was first published in 1955, A Short History of Medicine has been hailed as the best available book of its kind: a concise and readable introduction to the history of medicine, written for students and professionals alike. This new, revised edition of Erwin H. Ackerknecht's classic volume is now available in paperback, making the book especially suitable for classroom use. Description from Doody's Review Service
The Western medical tradition : 800 B.C. to A.D. 1800 by Lawrence I. Conrad
Call Number: R131 .W47 1995
ISBN: 0521381355
The influence of Greek medical practices dating back to the fifth century B.C. has had an immeasurable impact on the development of medicine in the West over the subsequent centuries. This text is designed to cover the history of Western medicine from Classical Antiquity to 1800. As one guiding thread it takes the system of medical ideas that, in large part, went back to the Greeks of the fifth century B.C., and played a major role in the understanding and treatment of health and disease. The influence of Greek medicine spread from the Aegean basin to the rest of the Mediterranean region, to Europe, and then to European settlements overseas. By the nineteenth century, however, this tradition no longer carried the same force or occupied so central a position within medicine. This book charts the influence of this tradition through twenty centuries, examining it in its social and historical context. It is essential reading as a new synthesis for all students of the history of medicine. Description from Doody's Review Service.
The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity by Roy Porter
Call Number: R131 .P59 1998
ISBN: 0393046346
Roy Porter, a social historian of medicine the London's Wellcome Institute, has written an dauntingly thick history of how medical thinking and practice has risen to the challenges of disease through the centuries. But delve into its pages, and you'll find one marvelous bit of history after another. The obvious highlights are touched upon--Hippocrates introduces his oath, Pasteur homogenizes, Jonas Salk produces the polio vaccine, and so on--but there's also Dr. Francis Willis's curing of The Madness of King George, W. T. G. Morton's hucksterish use of ether in surgery, and research on digestion conducted using a man with a stomach fistula (if you don't know what that means, you may not want to know). Porter is straightforward about his deliberate focus on Western medical traditions, citing their predominant influence on global medicine, and with The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, he has produced a volume worthy of that tradition's legacy. Description from Doody's Review Service.
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