Man, Nature and Disease
Signet, June 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Signet, June 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. More
University of Kansas Press, January 1956. Cloth. Octavo. DJ is missing. Library discard from Kansas Univesity Library with several stamps: on fore-edge, ffep and title page. A small sticker on lower left hand corner and larger sticker on front pastedown, plus several of the usual ex-library markings. Brown cloth covered..... More
Liveright, August 2020. Hardcover. "Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony," writes E.O. Wilson, one of the world's most beloved scientists, "their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg." In Tales from the Ant World, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Wilson takes us on a myrmecological tour to..... More
Knopf, September 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. A moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet earth as a result of human incursion, and the crucial work of animal and bird preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists, zoologists, environmentalists, and conservationists. From..... More
Merlin Books, January 1988. First Thus. Paper Back. Uncommon title. {5 & 3/4' x 8 & 1/4'} First UK paperback edition. Sun lightened spine. Errata slip taped to half title page -- same page with previous reader's name hand written in ink. Else, without markings. [491 pp.]. More
History of Health Sciences / Crossroads Books, 1985. First Edition. Paper Back. More
Medical Library Association / Waverly Press, January 1965. Cloth. Octavo. Navy blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. [300 pp.]. More
Princeton University Press, May 1978. First Edition. Cloth. Despite great ferment and activity among historians of science in recent years, the history of physiology after 1850 has received little attention. Gerald Geison makes an important contribution to our knowledge of this neglected area by investigating the achievements of English physiologists..... More
Cambridge University Press, January 1978. Reprint. Paper Back. Biology was introduced with the nineteenth century. The term 'biology' first appeared in a footnote in an obscure German medical publication of 1800, but a century of activity was needed to create a thriving science. This book offers a concise yet comprehensive..... More
Touchstone Books, September 1983. Reprint. Paper Back. First Touchstone paperback edition. 2nd printing. Sound, clean & unmarked interiors. Number line: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. [256 pp.]. More
Dover Pubns, June 1957. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Clear and penetrating presentation of the basic principles of scientific research from the great French physiologist whose contributions in the 19th century included the discovery of vasomotor nerves; nature of curare and other poisons in human body; functions of pancreatic juice in digestion;..... More
Pantheon, February 1982. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Paperback with sun lightened spine. Conversely sun darkened margins to cover verso and textblock pages. [349 pp.]. More
W. W. Norton, January 1945. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo. Brick red with sunned spine. Previous readers' inscription front end pages. Dustjacket is missing. A piece of dustjacket (rear flap and panel) taped to rear free end page. According to jacket fragment this is 'revised and enlarged edition'. However, acccording to..... More
Belknap Press, May 1987. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in dark grey cloth covered boards with gold lettering in black rectangle field on spine. In edgeworn dustjacket with torn/chipped spine base. Slightly lighter grey end pages.A previous reader's name written in ink upper right corner of fep. [520 pages]. More
University of California Press, April 1990. Paper Back. The first U.S. nominee for the Nobel Prize, Jacques Loeb was trained in experimental physiology in Germany, joined the biology faculty of the new University of Chicago in 1892, later taught at the University of California at Berkeley and then moved to..... More
The Johns Hopkins University Press, May 1986. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
The MIT Press, January 1987. Paper Back. This book of readings offers compelling evidence that even in this age of advanced medical technology and large-scale bureaucracy, the essence of diagnosis, therapy, and management of illness continues to reside in the doctor-patient relationship. It brings together 17 articles published from 1927..... More
University of Chicago Press, May 1997. Paper Back. Edward Golub, distinguished researcher and former professor of immunology, shows that major advances in medicine are caused by changes in the way scientists describe disease. Bleeding, sweating, and other treatments we consider barbaric were standard treatments for centuries because they conformed to..... More
Oxford University Press, June 1988. Paper Back. Few subjects have generated so many newspaper headlines and such heated controversy as the treatment, or non-treatment, of handicapped newborns. In 1982, the case of Baby Doe, a child born with Down's syndrome, stirred up a national debate in the United States, while..... More
Univ of Alabama Pr, May 1982. Hardcover. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. More
University of Chicago Press, May 1992. Hardcover. Looking for the first time at the cut-price anatomy schools rather than genteel Oxbridge, Desmond winkles out pre-Darwinian evolutionary ideas in reform-minded and politically charged early nineteenth-century London. In the process, he reveals the underside of London intellectual and social life in the..... More
University Alabama Press, June 2004. Hardcover. A history of the College of Community Health Sciences at The University of Alabama Employs first-hand accounts from college founders and early leaders to chronicle the institution's birth during the early 1970s, its developing relationships with The University of Alabama School of Medicine in..... More
University Alabama Press, August 2007. Hardcover. A scholarly narrative of UAB from its nascent beginnings through the mid 1990s. While the economy and culture of the post--World War II South changed from an era of material capital (e.g., cotton and iron ore) to a period of social capital (intellectual development..... More
Univ Pr of Kentucky, June 1993. Hardcover. More
Quinnipiac University Press, September 2013. Hardcover. Medicine's Michelangelo is a remarkable and first major biography of Frank H. Netter, MD, written by his daughter, Francine Mary Netter. She captures the character of the man and tells his life story using not only her remembrances but also Frank Netter's own autobiographical..... More