Our NHS
A History of Britain's Best Loved Institution
ISBN: PB: 9780300276527,
ISBN: HB: 9780300268270,
Yale University Press,
June 2024
400 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 8 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
400 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 8 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
An engaging, inclusive history of the NHS, exploring its surprising survival – and the people who have kept it running.
In recent decades, a wave of appreciation for the NHS has swept across the UK. Britons have clapped for frontline workers and ch...
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£11.99
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£20.00
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Diabetes
A History of Race and Disease
ISBN: PB: 9780300274226,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
Who is considered most at risk for diabetes, and why? In this thorough, engaging book, historian Arleen Tuchman examines and critiques how these questions have been answered by both the public and medical communities for over a century in the United...
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£16.99
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Great Plague
When Death Came to Cambridge in 1665
ISBN: PB: 9780300270259,
Yale University Press,
January 2023
208 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 16 black&white illus.
208 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 16 black&white illus.
In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague's effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord...
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£10.99
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Your Dry Eye Mystery Solved
Reversing Meibomian Gland Dysfunction, Restoring Hope
ISBN: PB: 9780300250336,
Yale University Press,
July 2022
424 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
424 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
A top expert reveals his insights into Meibomian gland dysfunction, a ubiquitous, misunderstood disease that leads to Dry Eye syndrome.
In "Reversing Dry Eye Syndrome" (Yale University Press 2007), ophthalmologist Steven Maskin introduced readers to...
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£14.00
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Dangerous Medicine
The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis
ISBN: HB: 9780300259629,
Yale University Press,
February 2022
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
From 1942 through 1972, American biomedical researchers deliberately infected people with hepatitis. Government-sponsored researchers were attempting to discover the basic features of the disease and the viruses causing it, and to develop interventio...
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£25.00
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Disorder
A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine
ISBN: HB: 9780300257403,
Yale University Press,
February 2022
584 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
584 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
Meticulously tracing the dramatic conflicts both inside organized medicine and between the medical profession and the larger society over quality, equality, and economy in health care, Peter A. Swenson illuminates the history of American medical poli...
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£30.00
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Doctor's Garden
Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain
ISBN: HB: 9780300236101,
Yale University Press,
January 2022
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 32 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 32 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.
As Britain grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new and exotic botanical specimens began to arrive within the nation's public and private spaces. Gardens became sites not just of leisure, sport...
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£30.00
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End of Genetics
Designing Humanity's DNA
ISBN: HB: 9780300219395,
Yale University Press,
January 2022
192 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 5 black&white illus.
192 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 5 black&white illus.
Since 2010 it has been possible to determine a person's genetic makeup in a matter of days at an accessible cost for many millions of people. Along with this technological breakthrough there has emerged a movement to use this information to help pros...
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£20.00
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Great Inoculator
The Untold Story of Daniel Sutton and his Medical Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300241440,
Yale University Press,
August 2020
208 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 16 black&white illus.
208 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Smallpox was the scourge of the eighteenth century: it showed no mercy, almost wiping out whole societies. Young and old, poor and royalty were equally at risk – unless they had survived a previous attack. Daniel Sutton, a young surgeon from Suffolk,...
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£20.00
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Virus in the Age of Madness
ISBN: PB: 9780300257373,
Yale University Press,
July 2020
128 pp., 20,3x12,7 cm
128 pp., 20,3x12,7 cm
With medical mysteries, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe, the coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably altered societies around the world. In this sharp essay, world-renowned philosopher Be...
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