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Can Onions Cure Ear-Ache? Medical Advice from 1769

Buchan William, King Melanie, Winston Robert

ISBN: HB: 9781851243822, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2012
208 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 26 black&white illus.

What common condition can be treated with cow dung? How do crushed oystershells ease heartburn? Can eels cure deafness? And how do you stop a stubborn case of the hiccups? If someone was struck down by illness or injury in the late eighteenth century...

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Popular Science

History

Medical Book: From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine

Pickover Clifford A.

ISBN: HB: 9781402785856, GMC Group, Sterling, September 2012
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

Following his hugely successful "The Math Book" and "The Physics Book", Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology,...

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Nutrition

Sport

Sports Nutrition From Lab to Kitchen

Jeukendrup Asker

ISBN: PB: 9781841262963, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, July 2012
200 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 61 black&white illus.

This book is unique in that it is a book written by world experts in a way that can easily be understood by athletes and which can immediately result in changes that can help performance or recovery. The various chapters are written by leaders in the...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Investigations in the Economics of Aging

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226903132, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2012
504 pp., 23x15 cm, 80 figures, 86 tables

One of the most well-established relationships in the economics of aging is that between health and wealth. Yet this relationship is also changing in conjunction with a rapidly aging population as well as a broad evolution in how people live later in...

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Sign Language

Public Health

In Our Hands Educating Healthcare Interpreters

Swabey Laurie, Malcolm Karen

ISBN: HB: 9781563685217, Gallaudet University Press, February 2012
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 8 figures

Deaf Americans have identified healthcare as the most difficult setting in which to obtain a qualified interpreter. Yet, relatively little attention has been given to developing evidence-based resources and a standardized body of knowledge to educate...

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Genetics

Philosophy

Creating a Physical Biology The Three-Man Paper and Early Molecular Biology

Sloan Phillip R., Fogel Brandon

ISBN: PB: 9780226767833, ISBN: HB: 9780226767826, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 9 halftones, 11 line illus.

In 1935 geneticist Nikolai Timofeeff-Ressovsky, radiation physicist Karl G. Zimmer, and quantum physicist Max Delbruck published "On the Nature of Gene Mutation and Gene Structure", known subsequently as the "Three-Man Paper". This seminal paper adva...

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