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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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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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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£11.99
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Conquest of Malaria
Italy, 1900-1962
ISBN: PB: 9780300256468,
Yale University Press,
June 2020
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
At the outset of the twentieth century, malaria was Italy's major public health problem. It was the cause of low productivity, poverty, and economic backwardness, while it also stunted literacy, limited political participation, and undermined the arm...
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£22.50
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Yellow Demon of Fever
Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade
ISBN: HB: 9780300215854,
Yale University Press,
June 2020
296 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 23 black&white illus.
296 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 23 black&white illus.
As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fou...
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£55.00
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Florence Under Siege
Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City
ISBN: HB: 9780300196344,
Yale University Press,
August 2019
376 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 50 colour illus., 4 maps
376 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 50 colour illus., 4 maps
Plague remains the paradigm against which reactions to many epidemics are often judged. Here, John Henderson examines how a major city fought, suffered, and survived the impact of plague. Going beyond traditional oppositions between rich and poor, th...
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£35.00
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