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Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting
A Social History of the Modern Voice
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512827736
Pub Date: July 2025
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
What was considered a good, normal, or healthy voice in the nineteenth century?In 1854, singing master Manuel Garcia became the first person to see the vocal cords at work in a human throat. Less than...
Surgeons and Something More
The History of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781606180204
Pub Date: November 2024
Format: Hardcover
592 Pages
Biographical sketches of the nineteen chairmen who have guided the evolution of the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school and surgery department, America’s first, from 1765 to the present...
Poisoned Relations
Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512826494
Pub Date: September 2024
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic worldBy the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Africans had developed...
A Male Hysteria
Diabetes and the Victorian Mind
Price: $49.50
ISBN: 9781606189016
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Paperback
456 Pages
A history of diabetes science and the experience of diabetics in the nineteenth-century EnglandA Male Hysteria examines both the science of diabetes in nineteenth-century England and the testimony of...
Hospital City, Health Care Nation
Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512823936
Pub Date: March 2023
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
Hospital City, Health Care Nation recasts the story of the U.S. health care system by emphasizing its economic, social, and medical importance in American communities. Focusing on urban hospitals and...
Undoing Slavery
Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512823271
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Hardcover
456 Pages
Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the...
Discovery and Healing
Reflections on Five Decades of Hematology/Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812225273
Pub Date: June 2022
Format: Paperback
192 Pages
In Discovery and Healing: Reflections on Five Decades of Hematology/Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, David Vaughn describes the history of the Perelman...
Embodying the Soul
Medicine and Religion in Carolingian Europe
Price: $89.95
ISBN: 9780812253894
Pub Date: April 2022
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
Embodying the Soul explores the possibilities and limitations of human intervention in the body's health across the ninth-century Carolingian Empire. Early medieval medicine has long been cast as a...
On Pestilence
A Renaissance Treatise on Plague
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812224979
Pub Date: January 2022
Format: Paperback
160 Pages
In the spring of 1576, the Health Office of Venice, fearful of a growing outbreak of plague, imposed a quarantine upon the city. The move was controversial, with some in power questioning the precise...
Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting
A Social History of the Modern Voice
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512827736
Pub Date: July 2025
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
What was considered a good, normal, or healthy voice in the nineteenth century?In 1854, singing master Manuel Garcia became the first person to see the vocal cords at work in a human throat. Less than...
Surgeons and Something More
The History of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781606180204
Pub Date: November 2024
Format: Hardcover
592 Pages
Biographical sketches of the nineteen chairmen who have guided the evolution of the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school and surgery department, America’s first, from 1765 to the present...
Poisoned Relations
Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512826494
Pub Date: September 2024
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic worldBy the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Africans had developed...
A Male Hysteria
Diabetes and the Victorian Mind
Price: $49.50
ISBN: 9781606189016
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Paperback
456 Pages
A history of diabetes science and the experience of diabetics in the nineteenth-century EnglandA Male Hysteria examines both the science of diabetes in nineteenth-century England and the testimony of...
Hospital City, Health Care Nation
Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512823936
Pub Date: March 2023
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
Hospital City, Health Care Nation recasts the story of the U.S. health care system by emphasizing its economic, social, and medical importance in American communities. Focusing on urban hospitals and...
Undoing Slavery
Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512823271
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Hardcover
456 Pages
Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the...
Discovery and Healing
Reflections on Five Decades of Hematology/Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812225273
Pub Date: June 2022
Format: Paperback
192 Pages
In Discovery and Healing: Reflections on Five Decades of Hematology/Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, David Vaughn describes the history of the Perelman...
Embodying the Soul
Medicine and Religion in Carolingian Europe
Price: $89.95
ISBN: 9780812253894
Pub Date: April 2022
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
Embodying the Soul explores the possibilities and limitations of human intervention in the body's health across the ninth-century Carolingian Empire. Early medieval medicine has long been cast as a...
On Pestilence
A Renaissance Treatise on Plague
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812224979
Pub Date: January 2022
Format: Paperback
160 Pages
In the spring of 1576, the Health Office of Venice, fearful of a growing outbreak of plague, imposed a quarantine upon the city. The move was controversial, with some in power questioning the precise...