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The National Health Service

By Charles Webster

The History of Medicine

By Roberto Margotta, Paul Lewis

Philosophical issues in psychiatry III: The Nature and Sources of Historical Change

By Kenneth S. Kendler (Rachel Brown Banks Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry; Professor of Human Genetics; Director, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA Professor of Psyc...

The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery

By Abraham Pais

A Brief History of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Gene Therapy

By Mr Paul Strathern

What the Apothecary Ordered: Questionable Cures Through the Ages

By Caroline Rance

Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut

By Elsa Richardson

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Psychology: Global Perspectives

By David B. Baker (Margaret Clark Morgan Executive Director, Margaret Clark Morgan Executive Director, The Center for the History of Psychology, Akron, OH)

Landmark Papers in Allergy: Seminal Papers in Allergy with Expert Commentaries

By Aziz Sheikh (Professor of Primary Care Research and Development and Director of Research, Allergy and Respiratory Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, UK), Thomas Platts-Mills (Asthma and Allergic Diseases...

Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations (Oxford Medical Publications)

By Peter McDonald

A History of Haematology: From Herodotus to HIV

By Shaun R. McCann (Professor Emeritus of Haematology and Academic Medicine, Professor Emeritus of Haematology and Academic Medicine, St James' Hospital and Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)

The History of Radiology

By Adrian M. K. Thomas (President, The British Society for the History of Medicine and Clinical Director for Radiology, South London Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK), Arpan K. Banerjee (Consultant Radiologist, Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull Hospitals...

The Antibody Molecule: From antitoxins to therapeutic antibodies

By Anthony R. Rees (, Formerly Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) Biotage AB, Uppsala, Sweden (2010-2014))

Landmark Papers in Pain: Seminal Papers in Pain with Expert Commentaries

By Paul Farquhar-Smith (The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Consultant in Pain Managment and Anaesthetics), Pierre Beaulieu (Department of Anesthesiology and Professor, Department of Phar...

Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow

By Peter Vinten-Johansen (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History), Howard Brody (Professor of Family Practice, Ethics and Philosophy, Professor of Family Practice, Ethics and Philosophy), Nigel Paneth (Professor of Epidemiology and...

The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers

By Joanna Bourke (Professor of History, Professor of History, Birkbeck, University of London)

The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play

By James C. Whorton (Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle)

Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914

By Elizabeth Kelly Gray (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Towson University)

Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped our History

By Dorothy H. Crawford (Professor of Medical Microbiology and Assistant Principal for the Public Understanding of Medicine, University of Edinburgh)

Scalpels, Stitches and Scars: A History of Surgery (Raintree Freestyle: A Painful History of Medicine)

By John Townsend

Human Anatomy: Depicting the Body from the Renaissance to Today

By Benjamin A. Rifkin, Michael J. Ackerman, Judith Folkenberg

Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio

By Gareth Williams

The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman

By Barbara Howard Traister

Illness as Metaphor and Aids and Its Metaphors

By Susan Sontag

Medicine in Society: Historical Essays

By Andrew Wear

The History of Medicine in Twelve Objects

By Cooper, Carol

Greek Medicine from the Heroic to the Hellenistic Age: A Source Book

By James Longrigg

Curiosities in Medicine: Alphabetically

By Sibylle Scholtz, Myriam Becker, Lee MacMorris, Achim Langenbucher

Our Necessary Shadow: The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry

By Tom Burns

Small by Small: A Nigerian Doctor's Story

By IKE. ANYA