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Toxic Bodies Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES
ISBN: PB: 9780300171372, Yale University Press, March 2011
256 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm, 11 black&white illus.
In 1941 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the first synthetic chemical to be marketed as an estrogen and one of the first to be identified as a hormone disruptor – a chemical that mimics hormones. Although...
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£17,00
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Wetware A Computer in Every Living Cell
ISBN: PB: 9780300167849, Yale University Press, February 2011
280 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
How does a single-cell creature, such as an amoeba, lead such a sophisticated life? How does it hunt living prey, respond to lights, sounds, and smells, and display complex sequences of movements without the benefit of a nervous system? This book off...
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£16,00
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Making of Modern Medicine Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease
ISBN: HB: 9780226059013, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
112 pp., 21.8x14.8 cm, 26 halftones
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, we have become accustomed to medical breakthroughs and conditioned to assume that, regardless of illnesses, doctors almost certainly will be able to help – not just by diagnosing us and alleviating our pain, b...
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£13,50
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Nancy Clark's Food Guide for Marathoners
ISBN: PB: 9781841263229, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, January 2011
168 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 61 colour and black&white illus.
In "Nancy Clark's Food Guide for Marathoners", you'll learn to: Effectively balance carbohydrates, protein and fat into your diet Choose the best snacks for before, during and after long runs Lose weight and have energy to exercise Carbohydrate load...
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£12,95
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Medicine at Yale The First 200 Years
ISBN: HB: 9780300167306, Yale University Press, January 2011
240 pp., 30.5x24.9 cm, 350 illus.
Founded in 1810, the Yale School of Medicine was among the nation's first medical schools. Over the past 200 years it has grown and evolved to become a world-class institution for research, education, and patient care, as well as a hub of medical inn...
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£35,00
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Sexual Chemistry A History of the Contraceptive Pill
ISBN: PB: 9780300167917, Yale University Press, October 2010
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
Heralded as the catalyst of the sexual revolution and the solution to global overpopulation, the contraceptive pill was one of the twentieth century's most important inventions. It has not only transformed the lives of millions of women but has also...
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£18,99
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Contested Reproduction Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate
ISBN: HB: 9780226222653, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables, 3 line illus.
Scientific breakthroughs have led us to a point where soon we will be able to make specific choices about the genetic makeup of our offspring. In fact, this reality has arrived – and it is only a matter of time before the technology becomes widesprea...
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£47,00
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Atmosphere of Heaven The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes an His Sons of Genius
ISBN: PB: 9780300168914, Yale University Press, August 2010
296 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
At the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, founded in the closing years of the eighteenth century, dramatic experiments with gases precipitated not only a revolution in scientific medicine but also in the history of ideas. Guided by the energy of maver...
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£15,00
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Research Findings in the Economics of Aging
ISBN: HB: 9780226903064, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
504 pp., 23x15 cm, 126 tables, 106 line illus.
The baby boom generation's entry into old age has led to an unprecedented increase in the elderly population. The social and economic effects of this shift are significant, and in "Research Findings in the Economics of Aging", a group of leading rese...
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£100,00
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Woman Who Walked into the Sea Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease
ISBN: PB: 9780300158618, Yale University Press, January 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This title presents a groundbreaking medical and social history of a devastating hereditary neurological disorder once demonized as "the witchcraft disease". When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made...
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£19,00
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