| 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 ... | |
| 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 ... | |
| 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 ... | |
| 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 ... | |
| 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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