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Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing

Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing

Edited by Sarah Star

Price: $55.00

ISBN: 9781487529536

Pub Date: April 2022

This collection of original essays introduces readers to the work of Henry Daniel, exploring his many contributions from medical, historical, and literary perspectives.

The Heartbeat of Innovation

The Heartbeat of Innovation

A History of Cardiac Surgery at the Toronto General Hospital

by Edward Shorter, Hugh E. Scully and Bernard S. Goldman

Price: $45.00

ISBN: 9781487526818

Pub Date: March 2022

This book tells the behind-the-scenes story of the development of cardiovascular surgery at the Toronto General Hospital – now rated as one of the best hospitals in the world.

Harbin

Harbin

A Cross-Cultural Biography

by Mark Gamsa

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9781487544249

Pub Date: November 2021

Told alongside the life of a unique city resident, Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography is the history of Russian-Chinese relations in the Manchurian city of Harbin.

The Discovery of Insulin

The Discovery of Insulin

Special Centenary Edition

by Michael Bliss

Foreword by Alison Li

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9781487529130

Pub Date: September 2021

This special centenary edition of The Discovery of Insulin celebrates a path-breaking medical discovery that has changed lives around the world.

History of Medicine

History of Medicine

A Scandalously Short Introduction, Third Edition

by Jacalyn Duffin

Price: $49.95

ISBN: 9781487509170

Pub Date: June 2021

The third edition of this bestselling introduction to medical history has been thoroughly updated to include recent scholarship and new events in major fields of medical endeavor.

The Language of Trauma

The Language of Trauma

War and Technology in Hoffmann, Freud, and Kafka

by John Zilcosky

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9781487509422

Pub Date: June 2021

Richly nuanced and firmly grounded in literature, biography, and history, The Language of Trauma analyses three major central European writers, revealing how they incorporated and responded to psychological and historical trauma.

Partnership for Excellence

Partnership for Excellence

Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals

by Edward Shorter

Price: $69.95

ISBN: 9781487543396

Pub Date: May 2021

In Partnership for Excellence, senior medical historian and award-winning author Edward Shorter details the Faculty of Medicine’s history from its inception as a small provincial school to its present day status as an international powerhouse.

Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World

Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World

A Gendered Perspective

Edited by Sarah E. Owens and Margaret E. Boyle

Price: $65.00

ISBN: 9781487505189

Pub Date: April 2021

This interdisciplinary collection takes a deep dive into early modern Hispanic health and demonstrates the multiples ways medical practices and experiences are tied to gender.

From Cells to Organisms

From Cells to Organisms

Re-envisioning Cell Theory

by Sherrie L Lyons

Price: $42.95

ISBN: 9781442635098

Pub Date: July 2020

From Cells to Organisms is both a history of science and a history of how ideas are developed and accepted in society.

Liber Uricrisiarum

Liber Uricrisiarum

A Reading Edition

by Henry Daniel

Edited by E.Ruth Harvey, M. Teresa Tavormina and Sarah Star

Price: $105.00

ISBN: 9781487506018

Pub Date: April 2020

Henry Daniel’s Liber Uricrisiarum (finished in 1379) is one of the earliest and most elaborate expositions in English of the ancient medical art of uroscopy, diagnosis by examination of urine, presented in the context of contemporary medical theory.

Andrew Fernando Holmes

Andrew Fernando Holmes

Protestantism, Medicine, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Montreal

by Richard Vaudry

Price: $84.00

ISBN: 9781487502195

Pub Date: March 2020

This is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Andrew Fernando Holmes, famous for his work on congenital heart disease.

Epidemics and the Modern World

Epidemics and the Modern World

by Mitchell Hammond

Price: $58.00

ISBN: 9781487593735

Pub Date: January 2020

Epidemics and the Modern World uses "biographies" of epidemics such as plague, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS to explore the impact of diseases on society from the fourteenth century to the twenty-first century.

A Weary Road

A Weary Road

Shell Shock in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918

by Mark Osborne Humphries

Price: $37.95

ISBN: 9781487525187

Pub Date: September 2019

Mark Osborne Humphries uses patient records and official army files from Canadian, British and Australian archives to examine war trauma as it was experienced, treated and managed in the frontlines of the British and Canadian forces during the First World War.

Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Maternalism, Eugenics, and Professional Identity

by Melissa Kravetz

Price: $81.00

ISBN: 9781442629646

Pub Date: May 2019

This book traces the rhetoric that politically active and professionally engaged female physicians used to maintain their presence and strengthen their significance in women’s and children’s medical spaces in Weimar and Nazi Germany.

Fighting Fat

Fighting Fat

Canada, 1920-1980

by Wendy Mitchinson

Price: $43.95

ISBN: 9781487522742

Pub Date: August 2018

Fighting Fat is a comprehensive study of approaches to obesity from 1920 to 1980 in Canada. It examines the health professions use of the word 'obesity', how it was measured, its causes, and treatments. It examines popular cultures view of the obese and its effect on those who were fat.

Working towards Equity

Working towards Equity

Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada

by Dustin Galer

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9781487521301

Pub Date: May 2018

In Working towards Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century.

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