<![CDATA[The Book Company: New Products - History]]> https://www.thebookco.com Wed, 27 May 2026 15:53:33 +0000 <![CDATA[The End of Death (A Surgeon, A Heart Transplant, and the Fight to Change What It Means to Die)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/the-end-of-death-9798217088355 Sun, 24 May 2026 07:47:30 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/the-end-of-death-9798217088355 The riveting true story of the visionary doctor who pioneered the heart transplant—a once-controversial operation that caused a media firestorm, saved countless lives, and forced society to redefine death itself.

In January 1968, a surgical team at Stanford University performed one o..

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]]> The riveting true story of the visionary doctor who pioneered the heart transplant—a once-controversial operation that caused a media firestorm, saved countless lives, and forced society to redefine death itself.

In January 1968, a surgical team at Stanford University performed one o..

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]]> The riveting true story of the visionary doctor who pioneered the heart transplant—a once-controversial operation that caused a media firestorm, saved countless lives, and forced society to redefine death itself.

In January 1968, a surgical team at Stanford University performed one o..]]> <![CDATA[El emperador de todos los males. Edición ampliada / The Emperor of All Maladies. Expanded Edition (Spanish Edition)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/el-emperador-de-todos-los-males-edicin-ampliada-the-emperor-of-all-maladies-expanded-9791387600341 Wed, 06 May 2026 11:28:04 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/el-emperador-de-todos-los-males-edicin-ampliada-the-emperor-of-all-maladies-expanded-9791387600341 El emperador de todos los males. Edición ampliada / The Emperor of All Maladies. Expanded Edition (Spanish Edition) by Siddhartha Mukherjee, 9791387600341Coming Soon..

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]]> El emperador de todos los males. Edición ampliada / The Emperor of All Maladies. Expanded Edition (Spanish Edition) by Siddhartha Mukherjee, 9791387600341Coming Soon..

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]]> <![CDATA[Who Killed the Queen? (The Story of a Community Hospital and How to Fix Public Health Care)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/who-killed-the-queen-9780773533400 Sat, 02 May 2026 14:00:03 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/who-killed-the-queen-9780773533400 Who Killed the Queen? (The Story of a Community Hospital and How to Fix Public Health Care) by Holly Dressel, 9780773533400

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital of Montreal, an exemplary Canadian community hospital that had been the site of many national and international medical firsts, was suddenly closed in the mid-1990s. It was not alone.

Using the dramatic and entertaining 100-year history of the Queen Elizabet..

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]]> Who Killed the Queen? (The Story of a Community Hospital and How to Fix Public Health Care) by Holly Dressel, 9780773533400

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital of Montreal, an exemplary Canadian community hospital that had been the site of many national and international medical firsts, was suddenly closed in the mid-1990s. It was not alone.

Using the dramatic and entertaining 100-year history of the Queen Elizabet..

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]]> The Queen Elizabeth Hospital of Montreal, an exemplary Canadian community hospital that had been the site of many national and international medical firsts, was suddenly closed in the mid-1990s. It was not alone.

Using the dramatic and entertaining 100-year history of the Queen Elizabet..]]> <![CDATA[Mixing Medicines (The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/mixing-medicines-9780228011941 Sat, 02 May 2026 13:47:43 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/mixing-medicines-9780228011941 Mixing Medicines (The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia) by Clare Griffin, 9780228011941

Early modern Russians preferred one method of treating the sick above all others: prescribing drugs. The Moscow court sourced pharmaceuticals from Asia, Africa, Western Europe, and the Americas, in addition to its own sprawling empire, to heal its ailing tsars.

Mixing Medicines ex..

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]]> Mixing Medicines (The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia) by Clare Griffin, 9780228011941

Early modern Russians preferred one method of treating the sick above all others: prescribing drugs. The Moscow court sourced pharmaceuticals from Asia, Africa, Western Europe, and the Americas, in addition to its own sprawling empire, to heal its ailing tsars.

Mixing Medicines ex..

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]]> Early modern Russians preferred one method of treating the sick above all others: prescribing drugs. The Moscow court sourced pharmaceuticals from Asia, Africa, Western Europe, and the Americas, in addition to its own sprawling empire, to heal its ailing tsars.

Mixing Medicines ex..]]> <![CDATA[Ethnopsychiatry]]> https://www.thebookco.com/ethnopsychiatry-9780228003854 Sat, 02 May 2026 13:40:27 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/ethnopsychiatry-9780228003854 Ethnopsychiatry by Henri F. Ellenberger, Emmanuel Delille, Jonathan Kaplansky, 9780228003854

What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social groups? In the late 1960s these questions gave rise to a groundbreaking series of articles written by the psychiatrist Henri Ellenberger, who would g..

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]]> Ethnopsychiatry by Henri F. Ellenberger, Emmanuel Delille, Jonathan Kaplansky, 9780228003854

What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social groups? In the late 1960s these questions gave rise to a groundbreaking series of articles written by the psychiatrist Henri Ellenberger, who would g..

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]]> What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social groups? In the late 1960s these questions gave rise to a groundbreaking series of articles written by the psychiatrist Henri Ellenberger, who would g..]]> <![CDATA[The Smile Gap (A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/the-smile-gap-9780228010630 Sat, 02 May 2026 13:34:15 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/the-smile-gap-9780228010630 The Smile Gap (A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality) by Catherine Carstairs, 9780228010630

As recently as fifty years ago most people expected to lose their teeth as they aged. Few children benefited from braces to straighten their teeth, and cosmetic procedures to change the appearance of smiles were largely unknown. Today, many Canadians enjoy straight, white teeth and far more of ..

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]]> The Smile Gap (A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality) by Catherine Carstairs, 9780228010630

As recently as fifty years ago most people expected to lose their teeth as they aged. Few children benefited from braces to straighten their teeth, and cosmetic procedures to change the appearance of smiles were largely unknown. Today, many Canadians enjoy straight, white teeth and far more of ..

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]]> As recently as fifty years ago most people expected to lose their teeth as they aged. Few children benefited from braces to straighten their teeth, and cosmetic procedures to change the appearance of smiles were largely unknown. Today, many Canadians enjoy straight, white teeth and far more of ..]]> <![CDATA[Disparate Remedies (Making Medicines in Modern India)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/disparate-remedies-9780228017530 Sat, 02 May 2026 13:27:09 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/disparate-remedies-9780228017530 Disparate Remedies (Making Medicines in Modern India) by Nandini Bhattacharya, 9780228017530

At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this development and examines the public cultures of medicine in the country between 1870 and 1960.

The book begins by discussing the expansi..

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]]> Disparate Remedies (Making Medicines in Modern India) by Nandini Bhattacharya, 9780228017530

At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this development and examines the public cultures of medicine in the country between 1870 and 1960.

The book begins by discussing the expansi..

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]]> At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this development and examines the public cultures of medicine in the country between 1870 and 1960.

The book begins by discussing the expansi..]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Practices (Immigrant Doctors and the History of Canadian Medicare)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/foreign-practices-9780228003724 Sat, 02 May 2026 13:26:00 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/foreign-practices-9780228003724 Foreign Practices (Immigrant Doctors and the History of Canadian Medicare) by Sasha Mullally, David Wright, 9780228003724

When the CBC organized a national contest to identify the greatest Canadian of all time, few were surprised when the father of Medicare, Tommy Douglas, won by a large margin: Medicare is central to Canadian identity. Yet focusing on Douglas and his fight for social justice obscures other import..

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]]> Foreign Practices (Immigrant Doctors and the History of Canadian Medicare) by Sasha Mullally, David Wright, 9780228003724

When the CBC organized a national contest to identify the greatest Canadian of all time, few were surprised when the father of Medicare, Tommy Douglas, won by a large margin: Medicare is central to Canadian identity. Yet focusing on Douglas and his fight for social justice obscures other import..

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]]> When the CBC organized a national contest to identify the greatest Canadian of all time, few were surprised when the father of Medicare, Tommy Douglas, won by a large margin: Medicare is central to Canadian identity. Yet focusing on Douglas and his fight for social justice obscures other import..]]> <![CDATA[Challenging Choices (Canada's Population Control in the 1970s)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/challenging-choices-9780228003755 Sat, 02 May 2026 13:19:44 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/challenging-choices-9780228003755 Challenging Choices (Canada's Population Control in the 1970s) by Erika Dyck, Maureen Lux, 9780228003755

Between the decriminalization of contraception in 1969 and the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, a landmark decade in the struggle for women's rights, public discourse about birth control and family planning was transformed. At the same time, a transnational conversati..

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]]> Challenging Choices (Canada's Population Control in the 1970s) by Erika Dyck, Maureen Lux, 9780228003755

Between the decriminalization of contraception in 1969 and the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, a landmark decade in the struggle for women's rights, public discourse about birth control and family planning was transformed. At the same time, a transnational conversati..

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]]> Between the decriminalization of contraception in 1969 and the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, a landmark decade in the struggle for women's rights, public discourse about birth control and family planning was transformed. At the same time, a transnational conversati..]]> <![CDATA[Early Modern Naval Health Care in England, 1650-1750]]> https://www.thebookco.com/early-modern-naval-health-care-in-england-1650-1750-9780228020592 Sat, 02 May 2026 13:14:30 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/early-modern-naval-health-care-in-england-1650-1750-9780228020592 Early Modern Naval Health Care in England, 1650-1750 by Matthew Neufeld, 9780228020592

From 1650 to 1750 the provision of medical care for injured seamen in the Royal Navy underwent a major transformation, shifting from care provided by civilians in private homes to care at hospitals run by the navy. Early Modern Naval Health Care in England examines the factors responsibl..

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]]> Early Modern Naval Health Care in England, 1650-1750 by Matthew Neufeld, 9780228020592

From 1650 to 1750 the provision of medical care for injured seamen in the Royal Navy underwent a major transformation, shifting from care provided by civilians in private homes to care at hospitals run by the navy. Early Modern Naval Health Care in England examines the factors responsibl..

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]]> From 1650 to 1750 the provision of medical care for injured seamen in the Royal Navy underwent a major transformation, shifting from care provided by civilians in private homes to care at hospitals run by the navy. Early Modern Naval Health Care in England examines the factors responsibl..]]>