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The Quick And The Dead: Biomedical Theory In Ancient Egypt

Andrew Andrew Hunt Gordon - History - 2004 - 260 pages
A cross-disciplinary approach suggesting that the origin of ancient Egyptian medicine began with the domestication of cattle in Africa and the attempt to control disease. With ...
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Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550-1860

Roy Porter, Economic History Society - History - 1995 - 112 pages
In his short but authoritative study, Roy Porter examines the impact of disease upon the English and their responses to it before the widespread availability and public ...
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The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice

Robert Kriech Ritner - History - 1993 - 346 pages
To date, no comprehensive treatment of Egyptian magic has focused on the practice of the magician. Both general studies and textual publications have emphasized instead the ...
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The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise Of A Sovereign ...

Paul Starr - History - 1982 - 532 pages
Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals ...
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Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health

Judith Walzer Leavitt - Social Science - 1997 - 356 pages
This timely and humanizing portrait of the real Typhoid Mary provides a window into the ethical dilemmas surrounding public health policy both past and present She was an Irish ...
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William Hunter and the Eighteenth-Century Medical World

William F. Bynum, Roy Porter - Medical - 2002 - 444 pages
Essays on the career of William Hunter, physician, obstetrician, medical educator and man of culture.
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