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White Market Drugs Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America
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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£22,00
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Blood Relations Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics
ISBN: PB: 9780226740034, ISBN: HB: 9780226739977, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones
Blood is messy, dangerous, and charged with meaning. By following it as it circulates through people and institutions, Jenny Bangham explores the intimate connections between the early infrastructures of blood transfusion and the development of human...
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£32,00
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£96,00
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Collagen Self-Care Secrets to Eat, Drink, and Glow
ISBN: HB: 9781454937807, GMC Group, Sterling, October 2020
176 pp., 18.8x15 cm, colour illus.
Jessica Bippen, registered dietitian and founder of the popular Nourished by Nutrition blog, offers a captivating introduction to dietary collagen supplements and how to use them for personal wellness. Gorgeously packaged, it's perfect for the GOOP a...
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£14,99
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Diabetes A History of Race and Disease
ISBN: HB: 9780300228991, Yale University Press, September 2020
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
Who is considered most at risk for diabetes, and why? In this thorough, engaging book, historian Arleen Tuchman examines and critiques how these questions have been answered by both the public and medical communities for over a century in the United...
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£25,00
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Great Inoculator The Untold Story of Daniel Sutton and his Medical Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300241440, Yale University Press, August 2020
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Smallpox was the scourge of the eighteenth century: it showed no mercy, almost wiping out whole societies. Young and old, poor and royalty were equally at risk – unless they had survived a previous attack. Daniel Sutton, a young surgeon from Suffolk,...
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£16,99
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ULTIMATE GUTFIXx How To Succeed Living A Plant Based Lifestyle
ISBN: PB: 9781760790059, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, July 2020
152 pp., 19x15.5 cm, black&white illus.
At last, a solution to gut issues, which becomes a lifestyle for the health of the human body and planet earth, all wrapped into one very interesting and informative read. Scott Mathias is a "self healed", upwardly mobile 60+ year old vegan chef and...
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£12,99
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Virus in the Age of Madness
ISBN: PB: 9780300257373, Yale University Press, July 2020
128 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
With medical mysteries, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe, the coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably altered societies around the world. In this sharp essay, world-renowned philosopher Be...
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£10,99
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Yellow Demon of Fever Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade
ISBN: HB: 9780300215854, Yale University Press, June 2020
296 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 23 black&white illus.
As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fou...
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£50,00
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Conquest of Malaria Italy, 1900-1962
ISBN: PB: 9780300256468, Yale University Press, June 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
At the outset of the twentieth century, malaria was Italy's major public health problem. It was the cause of low productivity, poverty, and economic backwardness, while it also stunted literacy, limited political participation, and undermined the arm...
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£19,99
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Epidemics and Society From the Black Death to the Present
ISBN: PB: 9780300256390, Yale University Press, May 2020
608 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today. In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only inf...
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£16,99
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