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Pharmacy

White Market Drugs Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America

Herzberg David

ISBN: HB: 9780226731889, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 4 line drawings

The contemporary opioid crisis is widely seen as new and unprecedented. Not so. It is merely the latest in a long series of drug crises stretching back over a century. In White Market Drugs, David Herzberg explores these crises and the drugs that fue...

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Physiology

Sport

Higher and Colder A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration

Heggie Vanessa

ISBN: HB: 9780226650883, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

During the long twentieth century, explorers went in unprecedented numbers to the hottest, coldest, and highest points on the globe. Taking us from the Himalaya to Antarctica and beyond, "Higher and Colder" presents the first history of extreme physi...

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History

Florence Under Siege Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City

Henderson John

ISBN: HB: 9780300196344, Yale University Press, August 2019
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 50 colour illus., 4 maps

Plague remains the paradigm against which reactions to many epidemics are often judged. Here, John Henderson examines how a major city fought, suffered, and survived the impact of plague. Going beyond traditional oppositions between rich and poor, th...

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Public Health

Pandemic Century One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris

Honigsbaum Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781787381216, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us b...

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Christianity

Public Health

Conversionary Sites Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota

Halvorson Britt

ISBN: PB: 9780226557267, ISBN: HB: 9780226557120, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Drawing on more than two years of participant observation in the American Midwest and in Madagascar among Lutheran clinicians, volunteer laborers, healers, evangelists, and former missionaries, "Conversionary Sites" investigates the role of religion...

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History

Asia

Neither Donkey nor Horse Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity

Hsiang-lin Lei Sean

ISBN: PB: 9780226379401, ISBN: HB: 9780226169880, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 1 line drawing

"Neither Donkey nor Horse" tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China's exploration of its own modernity half a century later....

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Genetics

In Search of Cell History The Evolution of Life's Building Blocks

Harold Franklin M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226174280, ISBN: HB: 9780226174143, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 12 line drawings

The origin of cells remains one of the most fundamental problems in biology, one that over the past two decades has spawned a large body of research and debate. With "In Search of Cell History", Franklin M. Harold offers a comprehensive, impartial ta...

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