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

By Lindsey Fitzharris

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)

A Second Voice: A Century of Osteopathic Medicine in Ohio

By Carol Poh Miller

Quantitative and Numerical Methods in Soil Classification and Survey

By R. Webster

Plague: A Very Short Introduction

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

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

By Christian Donlan

Doctors and Diseases in the Roman Empire

By Ralph Jackson

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

By Lindsey Fitzharris

Complementary Therapies in Context: The Psychology of Healing

By Helen Graham

Mighty Healer: Thomas Holloway's Victorian Patent Medicine Empire

By Verity Holloway

Nightingales: Florence and Her Family

By Gillian Gill

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.

By Steven Johnson

Hunting the 1918 Flu

By Kirsty E. Duncan

Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend

By Mark Bostridge

Bovril,Whisky and Gravediggers: The Spanish Flue Pandemic comes to the West Midlands (1918-1920)

By Maggie Andrews, Emma Edwards

Plagues and Peoples

By William H. McNeill

Mobilizing Mutations: Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy

By Daniel Navon

The Second Brain

By Michael Gershon

Frigidity: An Intellectual History

By P. Cryle, A. Moore

Medicine At The Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present

By A. Bashford

Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain

By H. Marland

Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800

By L. Whaley

Pain: A Cultural History

By J. Moscoso

Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice: The Disease that Came to Stay

By L. McGough

Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

By L. Noble

The Cambridge World History of Food 2 Part Boxed Hardback Set

By Kenneth F. Kiple (Bowling Green State University, Ohio), Kriemhild Conee Ornelas

Sane Asylums: The Success of Homeopathy before Psychiatry Lost Its Mind

By Jerry M. Kantor, Eric Leskowitz

My First 75 Years of Medicine

By Alexander Macdougall Cooke

The Inheritor's Powder: A Cautionary Tale of Poison, Betrayal and Greed

By Sandra Hempel

Medicine: An Illustrated History

By Albert S. Lyons, R.Joseph Petrucelli, R. Joseph Petrucelli II