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All of us have lurking in our DNA a most remarkable gene, which has a crucial job – it protects us from cancer. Known simply as p53, this gene constantly scans our cells to ensure that they grow and……続きを見る

The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a ……続きを見る

Organisational Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies critically reflects upon 14 studies by researchers such as Gilbreth, French and Raven, Greenberg, and Schein, that have long been considered……続きを見る

‘Our greatest blessings come to us by way of mania, provided it is given us by divine gift,’ – says Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus. Certain forms of alteration of consciousness, considered to be inspi……続きを見る

市面上心理學書籍百百種，早已成為你再不懂就落伍的顯學。 但是，你知道心理學是怎麼發展成今日的樣貌嗎？ 這本書來自心理系課堂上那些讓學生反應最為熱烈的話題。在美國聖若望大學擁有數十年教學經驗的霍根博士，……続きを見る

The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was ……続きを見る

Performance and medicine are now converging in unprecedented ways. London's theatres reveal an appetite for medical themes – John Boyega is subjected to medical experiments in Jack Thorne's Woycek, ……続きを見る

Epidemics have played a critical role in shaping modern Asia. Encompassing two centuries of Asian history, Robert Peckham explores the profound impact that infectious disease has had on societies ac……続きを見る

This volume offers a comprehensive biography of the Roman physician Galen, and explores his activities and ideas as a doctor and intellectual, as well as his reception in later centuries. Nutton’s w……続きを見る

Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize Now, as cancer beco……続きを見る

In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey th……続きを見る

現代人=藥人 現代人的生活離不開藥，各種病痛都仰頼藥物緩解 人類對神奇藥物的追尋，推動著醫藥的演進發展 藥能治病，也能致命；無數生命的犧牲，逐步建構出現代醫療的樣貌 一部與你我生活息息相關的藥物演進史 「……続きを見る

Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this ……続きを見る

The Complete works of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychology, with a linking table of content for easy access through this HUGE collection of articles and books on psychology. 続きを見る

A New York Times Bestseller **Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize | Named a best book of the year by The Guardian "Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hi……続きを見る

In recent years, emotions have become a major, vibrant topic of research not merely in the biological and psychological sciences but throughout a wide swath of the humanities and social sciences as ……続きを見る

Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.) is one of the best known of the Ancient Greeks, and his Hippocratic Oath is still in use today. An ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles and the Golden Age of Ath……続きを見る

A revisionist history of medicine, in which blood plays the starring role Inspired by Homer’s description of the ebb and flow of the “wine dark sea,” the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth mo……続きを見る

This book examines an important area of Aristotle's philosophy: the generation of substances. While other changes presuppose the existence of a substance (Socrates grows taller), substantial generat……続きを見る

Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior now asks: what are the effects of children on their parents……続きを見る

Wounds were a potent signifier reaching across all aspects of life in Europe in the middle ages, and their representation, perception and treatment is the focus of this volume. Following a survey of……続きを見る

This book is a strenuous critique of the misinterpretation of statistical knowledge of populations in mainstream psychology, exploring the implications of assuming that those statistics constitute s……続きを見る

Hippocrates is a towering figure in Greek medicine. Dubbed the 'father of medicine', he has inspired generations of physicians over millennia in both the East and West. Despite this, little is known……続きを見る

An authority on Alzheimer's disease offers a history of past failures and a roadmap that points us in a new direction in our journey to a cure. For decades, some of our best and brightest medical sc……続きを見る

Depression, once a subfield of neurosis, has become the most diagnosed mental disorder in the world. Why and how has depression become such a topical illness and what does it tell us about changing ……続きを見る

This first full-length study of the Arabic reception of Plato's Timaeus considers the role of Galen of Pergamum (129–c. 216 CE) in shaping medieval perceptions of the text as transgressing disciplin……続きを見る

This text provides a detailed introduction to number theory, demonstrating how other areas of mathematics enter into the study of the properties of natural numbers. It contains problem sets within e……続きを見る

最大膽的想法｜最瘋狂的實驗｜最奇葩的心理學家 「心理學有一個長久的過去，卻只有一個短暫的歷史。」 ──徳國心理學家赫爾曼·艾賓豪斯 　　►十八世紀的歐洲，正在開顱相學狂歡派對 　　1796年，徳國解剖學家弗朗茲……続きを見る

Explores the interplay of medicine and religion in Western societies. Medicine and Religion is the first book to comprehensively examine the relationship between medicine and religion in the Western……続きを見る

美國總統隱瞞病情，妻子悄悄代政，人民從此不再信任政府… 黒死病帶走了將近三分之一的歐洲人口，卻也為人類社會帶來另一道曙光 揭開過去元首的重疾，洞見國家動盪興亡最裡層的關鍵 隨重大流行病的到來，體驗盛世下……続きを見る