Buy The Natural History of Cage Birds: Their Management, Habits, Food, Diseases, Treatment, Breeding and the Methods of Catching Them by J. M. Bechstein and Read this Book on Kobo's Free ...
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Author with professional and personal experience: Psychotherapist Gary Greenbergs musings on the intersection of science, politics, and ethics have graced the pages of The New Yorker , W...
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Multiple Sclerosis: The History of a Disease won a 2005 ForeWord Book of the Year Silver Medal! The basic facts about multiple sclerosis are well known: it is the most common neurologic d...
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Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is currently regarded as one of the world's worst animal plagues. But how did this label become attached to a curable disease that poses little threat to huma...
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Exhaustive in its scope, this book provides a comprehensive study of the natural and modified history of congenital heart disease. Focusing particularly on the discussion of fetal and pos...
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Examines the history and spread of this deadly disease, how HIV and AIDS is contracted, symptoms, and treatments options, and the efforts being made around the world to contain and cure it.
Describes the history of influenza and its many strains, focusing on the flu epidemics in the past century and how medical technology has evolved to combat the virus.
This book describes the causes of both common and extraordinary diseases and gives specific instructions for their cure. The most promising discovery in this book is the effectiveness of ...
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A review of the original edition of The Burdens of Disease that appeared in ISIS stated, "Hays has written a remarkable book. He too has a message: That epidemics are primarily dependent ...
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A historical exploration of scientific disputes on the causation of so-called prion diseases', this fascinating book covers diseases including Scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and...
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New in Paperback This fascinating environmental history of Japan examines how traditions and practices in several industries -- from raising silkworms to mining lead and coal to refining ...
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Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem. With this book, L...
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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a disease that only affects males, with an incidence of around 1 in 3500 new-born baby boys. Its relentless progress is charterized by loss of the ability t...
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Disease and Medicine in World History is a concise introduction to diverse ideas about diseases and their treatment throughout the world. Drawing on case studies from ancient Egypt to pr...
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A disease of soil, animals, and people, anthrax has threatened lives for at least two thousand years. Farmers have long recognized its lasting virulence, but in our time, anthrax has been...
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For 150 years, Down Syndrome has constituted the archetypal mental disability, easily recognisable by distinct facial anomalies and physical stigmata. In a narrow medical sense, Down Synd...
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For courses in the history of medicine. This readergives students in a history of medicine class, or the general reading public, a broad selection of readings about the many ways th...
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"Chronic diseasescardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and diabetesare not only the principal cause of world-wide mortality but also are now responsible for a striki...
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Rabies was a constant threat in Victorian Britain and gripped popular imagination, not least because its human form, hydrophobia, produced a vile death with the mind and body out of contr...
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Buy A Woman's Disease:The history of cervical cancer by Ilana Lowy and Read this Book on Kobo's Free Apps. Discover Kobo's Vast Collection of Ebooks Today - Over 3 Million Titles, Includi...
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Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are imperil...
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Plague. The word itself is like a blow, connoting misery, miasma and death. Plague takes many forms: influenza, typhus, cholera, the Black Death, and, recently, AIDS. AIDS has reminded us...
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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, a...
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The Deadly Truth chronicles the complex interactions between disease and the peoples of America from the pre-Columbian world to the present. Grob's ultimate lesson is stark but valuabl...
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