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        The Smallpox Report

        The Smallpox Report

        Vaccination and the Romantic Illness Narrative

        by Fuson Wang

        Price:

        $75.00

        ISBN: 9781487546595

        Pub Date: April 2023

        The Smallpox Report explores the Romantic-era medical and literary narratives that made vaccination plausible, available, and desirable.

        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:

        $42.95

        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:

        $37.95

        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:

        $52.00

        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:

        $31.95

        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:

        $73.00

        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:

        $68.00

        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:

        $45.95

        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:

        $110.00

        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:

        $88.00

        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:

        $61.00

        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:

        $40.95

        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:

        $85.00

        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:

        $46.95

        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.

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