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The Lady Doctor and the Nation (Medicine and Development in Modern India)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 01:49:03 +0000

During the final decades of the British Raj, Indian and British officials recognized that Indian women who refused to consult male physicians needed healthcare. In stepped Indian women physicians – known as lady doctors – symbols of India’s aspirations toward modernity, particularly through fam..

Price: $39.95

Earning the Right to Health (Colonialism and First Nations Health Care Policy in Canada)

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 01:48:49 +0000

In the decades after the Second World War, Canada built a publicly funded health care system that was celebrated as an important step towards universal, equal health care access. For First Nations peoples, however, this expansion unfolded in tandem with a political project that denied Indigenou..

Price: $34.95

Medicine, Madness and the Maternal Body in Sixteenth-Century Europe (The Emergence of Postpartum Pathophysiology)

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:46:33 +0000

This book traces the early modern medical engagement with what was often termed as ‘postpartum madness.’ It offers a new consideration of how mental disturbances were perceived and treated by university-trained physicians over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Price: $233.99

Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine (Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:55:51 +0000

This book is the biography of a Chinese disease. Born in antiquity and reaching maturity during the epidemics that swept China during the seventeenth-century collapse of the Ming dynasty, the ancient notion of wenbing “Warm diseases” continued to play a role even in the response of Traditional Chi..

Price: $233.99

Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond (Autopsy, Pathology and Display)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:40:45 +0000

Excavations of medical school and workhouse cemeteries undertaken in Britain in the last decade have unearthed fascinating new evidence for the way that bodies were dissected or autopsied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book brings together the latest discoveries by these biologic..

Price: $233.99

Sophia Jex-Blake (A Woman Pioneer in Nineteenth Century Medical Reform)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 02:45:14 +0000

In this first modern biography of Sophia Jex-Blake, Shirley Roberts charts the career of the woman who led the campaign for British women to enter the medical profession. A fascinating account of one woman's struggle for equality.

Price: $233.99

The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 02:38:58 +0000

This book analyses the diverse facets of the social history of health and medicine in colonial India. It incorporates a unique set of themes such as public health and medical institutions. Based on inter-disciplinary research, the book offers valuable contributions to topics that have recently ..

Price: $166.99

Pushbutton Psychiatry (A Cultural History of Electric Shock Therapy in America, Updated Paperback Edition)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 01:42:14 +0000

Uncovers the roots of electroshock in America, an outgrowth of western patriarchal medicine with primarily female patients. The authors trace the history of electroshock in the United States in three historic stages: from an enthusiastic reception in 1940, to a period of crisis in the 1960s, to it..

Price: $280.00

Knowing Practice (The Clinical Encounter Of Chinese Medicine)

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:47:52 +0000

An examination of the theory and practice of traditional medicine in modern China.

Price: $233.99

Four Centuries of Clinical Chemistry

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:50:55 +0000

In this, the first book-length history of clinical chemistry, those involved or interested in the field will read about who and what went before them and how the profession came to its present state of clinical importance

Price: $350.00