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From Medicine Man to Doctor: The Story of the Science of Healing

From Medicine Man to Doctor: The Story of the Science of Healing


Paperback, 448 pages, release 2004-07-26
Howard W. Haggard
Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486435415

Compelling and informative, this overview of medical history offers fascinating facts and anecdotes from around the world in its chronicles of the development of obstetrical methods, anesthesia, surge…


Plague: A Story of Science, Rivalry and the Scourge That Won't Go Away

Plague: A Story of Science, Rivalry and the Scourge That Won't Go Away


Paperback, 320 pages, release 2004-05-01
Edward Marriott
Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 0805075151

You thought the bubonic plague had gone the way of powdered wigs? Try again: It could happen anytime. Edward Marriott' s dramatic, gripping new book gives you yet another thing to worry about. New Yor…

Review: It is there
Plague, in general known as The black death, has seemed in three main pandemics, and this is a fine history of the last which started in China by the end of 19th century and…


Oswald Avery and the Story of DNA

Oswald Avery and the Story of DNA


Library Binding, 48 pages, release 2001-11-01
Jim Whiting, Vesta-Nadine Severs
Mitchell Lane Publishers
ISBN: 1584151102

Unlocking Secrets Science
There have been many talented scientists who have contributed to our knowledge of DNA. Many of us recognize the names Francis Crick and James Watson or Alfred Hershey. But few of us recognize the smal…

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Plague: A Story of Rivalry, Science and the Scourge That Won't Go Away

Plague: A Story of Rivalry, Science and the Scourge That Won't Go Away


Hardcover, 320 pages, release 2003-03-03
Edward Marriott
Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 0805066802

A riveting account, at once a reconstruction of the race to find a cure, a history of bubonic plague and an investigation into the threat of plague today Plague. The very word carries an unholy resona…

Review: It is there
…Modern parallels. This historical comment is one of the main topics of the book, but then the author follows the propagation the plague from Hong Kong to India and on America. It…


Sentenced to Science: One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment in America

Sentenced to Science: One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment in America


Hardcover, 207 pages, release 2007-12-30
Allen M. Hornblum
Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN: 0271033363

From 1951 until 1974, Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia was the site of thousands of experiments on prisoners conducted by researchers under the direction of University of Pennsylvania dermatologist A…

Review: The history which should have been written long ago
Condemned to the science, those of all Hornblum the first hand calculation of the masculine woman's experience tells about Anthony in cross-beam castle as a human guinea pig in the 1960s is written. In spite of decades of that…


The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic-and How It Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic-and How It Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World


Paperback, 320 pages, release 2007-10-02
Steven Johnson
Riverhead Trade
ISBN: 1594482691

A National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year It's the summer of 1854 and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the worl…

Review: Unusual book on the early cholera research and prevention
This is one of those books which I have thought to read often. I decided, finally to read, for it it on listening to the author speaks in a conference. Really I found time in addition…


The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic-And How It Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic-And How It Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World


MP3 CD, release 2006-12-01
Steven Johnson
Tantor Media
ISBN: 1400152984

This thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London is a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease, cities, sc…

Review: Unusual book on the early cholera research and prevention
…With a population by chance 2.4 millions. The Soho area was populated one most close with 432 people per Acre. Steven Johnson reports that Manhattan has today only about that…


The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic-And How It Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic-And How It Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World


Audio CD, release 2006-12-01
Tantor Media
ISBN: 1400102987

Review
…While a very famous doctor (he brought forward the use of the aether and chloroform as an anaesthetic, among the rest,) was not an inhabitant of Soho. Henry Whitehead lived in it and knew almost…


The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic-And How It Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic-And How It Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World


Audio CD, release 2006-12-01
Steven Johnson
Tantor Media
ISBN: 1400132983

Review
…He supplies you with enough background on those two people that you have an excellent understanding of that as they came to this one department of London to fight against one of the worse urban ones…


A Dictionary of the History of Science

A Dictionary of the History of Science


Hardcover, 380 pages, release 2001-01-15
Anton Sebastian
Informa Healthcare
ISBN: 185070418X

The only work of its kind, this dictionary is uniquely focused on the history of applied science, including medical and biomedical applications. It contains approximately 3000 detailed, extensively re…

Review: Gleanings of the bones of the scientific history
An accidental walk by often forgotten paths in the history. Sebastian should be recommended for his learning in finding darkly and sometimes winning nuggets by details.…



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