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Alternative Medicine? | |||
| A History | Miscellaneous | |||
| Roberta Bivins | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2007 238 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0199218870 | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Our Price £5.99 | |||
| What is 'alternative' medicine? Why has it become so popular at a time when biomedical science has seen such success? And is this popularity really so recent a phenomenon as it seems? Comparing the medical traditions of China, India and the western world over the past four centuries, Roberta Bivins traces the origins and development of our modern distinctions between alternative, complementary and orthodox medicine, revealing that patients' interest in unconventional cures and charismatic quacks is nothing new. | ||||
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The Family that Couldn't Sleep | |||
| Unravelling a Venetian Medical Mystery | Miscellaneous | |||
| DT Max | ||||
| Portobello 2007 299 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1846270898 | ||||
| Published Price £17.99 | Our Price £5.99 | |||
| Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a rare inherited affliction that has tormented one noble Venetian family since the 18th century. Its cause was a mystery until the 1990s, when it was identified as a rogue protein called a prion - the infectious agent responsible for Mad Cow Disease and scrapie. From intensive livestock breeding methods of 18th century English farmers to the biologists researching prions today, this engrossing book follows the progress of research into FFI and other prion diseases. | ||||
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Cures and Curiosities | |||
| Inside the Wellcome Library | Miscellaneous | |||
| Tony Gould (Edited by) | ||||
| Profile 2007 226 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1846680336 | ||||
| Published Price £15.00 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| The Wellcome Library contains an extraordinary assortment of materials reaching far beyond the limits of what one might expect from a medical library. Henry Wellcome (1852-1936) was a fanatical (if not visionary) collector, whose legacy of some 6,500 artefacts has continued to grow. Tony Gould presents a beautifully-illustrated introduction to the wonders of the Library, from early lobotomy implements to late 19th century erotica, with contributions by experts in some of the myriad disciplines that the collection covers. | ||||
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Betablockers in Heart Failure | |||
| Miscellaneous | ||||
| Martin J Kendall | ||||
| Informa Healthcare 2002 | ||||
| Paperback 1853179027 | ||||
| Published Price £50.00 | Our Price £1.99 | |||
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Hepatitis B | |||
| The Hunt for a Killer Virus | Miscellaneous | |||
| Baruch S Blumberg | ||||
| Princeton University Press 2002 244 pages | ||||
| Hardback 069100692X | ||||
| Published Price £32.50 | Our Price £29.00 | |||
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