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The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy

By James Evans (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, USA)

Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity

By Virginia Smith (Freelance historian)

An Outline History of Medicine

By Philip Rhodes

Understanding Medications

By Alfred Burger

A History of the Brain: From Stone Age surgery to modern neuroscience

By Andrew P. Wickens (University of Central Lancashire, UK)

A History of Lung Cancer: The Recalcitrant Disease

By C. Timmermann

Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox

By G. Williams

Autism: A Social and Medical History

By M. Waltz

Ways of Regulating Drugs in the 19th and 20th Centuries

By V. Hess

John Clare: A Literary Life

By R. Sales

Medicine and the Market in England and its Colonies, c.1450- c.1850

By M. Jenner, P. Wallis

Modernism and Eugenics

By M. Turda

Health and Medicine in Britain since 1860

By Anne Hardy

The Herbalist: Nicholas Culpeper - Rebel Physician

By Benjamin Woolley

The Unmapped Mind: A Memoir of Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis and Learning How to Live

By Christian Donlan

Plague: A Very Short Introduction

By Paul Slack (Emeritus Professor of Early Modern Social History, Oxford University)

Quantitative and Numerical Methods in Soil Classification and Survey

By R. Webster

A Second Voice: A Century of Osteopathic Medicine in Ohio

By Carol Poh Miller

Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

By Jim Downs (Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, Connecticut College, New York, NY)

The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

By Lindsey Fitzharris

This Mortal Coil: A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year

By Andrew Doig

George III and the Mad-business

By Ida Macalpine, Richard A. Hunter

Ancient Egyptian Medicine

By John F. Nunn

Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter

By R. Bivins, J. Pickstone

A History of Accident and Emergency Medicine, 1948-2004

By H. Guly

Sexual Inversion: A Critical Edition

By H. Ellis, J. Symonds, I. Crozier

Medicine and Society in Later Medieval England

By Carole Rawcliffe

Hildegard of Bingen's Medicine

By Wighard Strehlow, Gottfried Hertzka

The Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic about the Making of a Doctor

By Marion, Robert

Concise History of Breast Cancer

By Marc Lacroix