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Viral Economies Bird Flu Experiments in Vietnam
ISBN: PB: 9780226648941, ISBN: HB: 9780226648804, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
Over the last decade, infectious disease outbreaks have heightened fears of a catastrophic pandemic passing from animals to humans. From Ebola and bird flu to swine flu and MERS, zoonotic viruses are killing animals and wreaking havoc on the people l...
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£22,00
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£62,00
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Synthesizing Hope Matter, Knowledge, and Place in South African Drug Discovery
ISBN: PB: 9780226629186, ISBN: HB: 9780226629049, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
"Synthesizing Hope" opens up the material and social world of pharmaceuticals by focusing on an unexpected place: iThemba Pharmaceuticals. Founded in 2009 with a name taken from the Zulu word for hope, the small South African startup with an elite in...
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£21,00
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£62,00
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Anatomy & Yoga Muscles in Action
ISBN: PB: 9781782551522, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, February 2019
144 pp., 27.4x21 cm, 250 colour photos
"Anatomy & Yoga" is a complete work that introduces the yoga tradition from a practical and scientific point of view. It is aimed at students, teachers, people who practice yoga, and those who want to familiarize themselves with this millennia-old pr...
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£19,95
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Insider Trading How Mortuaries, Medicine and Money Have Built a Global Market in Human Cadaver Parts
ISBN: HB: 9780300118551, Yale University Press, June 2017
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
The cadaver industry in Britain and the United States, its processes and profits. Except for organ transplantation little is known about the variety of stuff extracted from corpses and repurposed for medicine. A single body might be disassembled to...
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£18,99
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Face/On Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other
ISBN: PB: 9780226461366, ISBN: HB: 9780226461229, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
Are our identities attached to our faces? If so, what happens when the face connected to the self is gone forever – or replaced? In "Face/On", Sharrona Pearl investigates the stakes for changing the face-and the changing stakes for the face – in both...
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£26,50
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£84,00
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Madness and Memory The Discovery of Prions - A New Biological Principle of Disease
ISBN: PB: 9780300216905, Yale University Press, December 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.
In 1997, Stanley B. Prusiner received a Nobel Prize, the world's most prestigious award for achievement in physiology or medicine. That he was the sole recipient of the award for the year was entirely appropriate, for his struggle to identify the age...
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£16,99
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Caregiving in Alzheimer's and Other Dementias
ISBN: PB: 9780300207989, Yale University Press, June 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Practical. Easy to read. Comprehensive. Encouraging. Accurate. All of these words describe this indispensable book that belongs in the hands of all family members and other caretakers of people who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or othe...
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£15,99
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Misbehaving Science Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics
ISBN: PB: 9780226058450, ISBN: HB: 9780226058313, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables
Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the "criminal chromosome" to the "gay gene", claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. Ma...
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£22,00
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£67,00
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Medical Book 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine (New Edition)
ISBN: HB: 9781435148048, GMC Group, Sterling, April 2014
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.
The history of medicine is as old as the history of human civilization. In "The Medical Book", popular science writer Clifford A. Pickover explores 250 milestone discoveries in medicine that span more than 12,000 years. Whether writing on "hard scien...
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£30,00
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Winning Strategies for Successful Aging
ISBN: PB: 9780300184020, Yale University Press, January 2013
192 pp., 21x14 cm
For anyone who is approaching a 65th birthday with trepidation, this valuable book offers heartening advice on navigating the later years of life. Dr. Eric Pfeiffer, who for thirty years has cared for – and learned from – elderly people, addresses wi...
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