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As LSD moves towards the medical mainstream, it continues to evoke powerful memories of the psychedelic sixties and west coast counterculture. In this lively account, Chris Elcock follows a differen……続きを見る

Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic is a unique firsthand account from three public health leaders of CDC's early response to AIDS. Drawing in part on interviews from the CDC's AIDS oral history proje……続きを見る

Psicología básica es un acercamiento concreto hacia los principales conceptos y enfoques de la psicología, ya sea, del desarrollo, social o cognitiva. Con el apoyo de una gran cantidad de ilustracio……続きを見る

Easy to read and to use, this A-to-Z mini-encyclopedia covers the most important medical innovations of the last 200 years. Medical innovation is an extremely important topicーand one to which relat……続きを見る

A pictorial history of the Royal Army Medical Corps’ service during World War I, featuring rare photographs from wartime archives. The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) supported the British Army thro……続きを見る

A trivia collection that puts medical history under the microscopeーwith more than 500 little-known facts about doctors, diseases, and more. Did you know . . . Before the advent of surgery, ancient ……続きを見る

Elizabeth Blackwell's first volume of "Essays in Medical Sociology" explores the complex connection between medicine and society. In this collection of essays, Blackwell explores the interactions be……続きを見る

The book describes my 50+ year experience being stealth harassed, physically and psychologically attacked, and tortured in America by Russian-controlled American operatives.It also details how the R……続きを見る

Volume One of The History of Psychology through Symbols provides a groundbreaking approach by expanding the roots of psychology beyond the Greeks to concurrent events during the same period (800 BCE……続きを見る

Instant Psychology pulls together all the pivotal psychological knowledge and thought into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat sheet', which tells you the most important facts i……続きを見る

Volume Two of The History of Psychology through Symbols continues a groundbreaking approach of using symbols to deepen the understanding of psychological history as well as the importance of how one……続きを見る

Charles Mackay's 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds' is a seminal work exploring the phenomenon of crowd psychology and the impact of mass behavior on individuals. Written in……続きを見る

Highlights local history to tell a national story about the evolution of the women’s health movement, illuminating the struggles and successes of bringing feminist dreams into clinical spaces. The w……続きを見る

Why did medicine fascinate writers and filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s? This book traces the prevalent medical themes in interwar Russian and Czech literature and cinema: syphilis, nervous illness……続きを見る

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay. The subjects of Mackay's debunking include witchcraft, alchemy, crusad……続きを見る

In 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds', Charles Mackay explores various historical episodes of mass hysteria, financial manias, and social delusions. Written with a keen eye ……続きを見る

A rich and engaging guide to psychology, the science devoted to understanding human nature What really drives our decisions? Where do language and memory come from? Why do our minds sometimes seem t……続きを見る

The woman scientist who saved Americans from thalidomide In the early 1960s, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration became one of the most celebrated women in America whe……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

Albert H. Buck's 'The Growth of Medicine from the Earliest Times to About 1800' is a comprehensive examination of the development of medicine throughout history. Buck's meticulous research and detai……続きを見る

Barbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alteration as a figure for psychic otherness. By means of an ideological and rheto……続きを見る

A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think ab……続きを見る

In A History of Modern Psychology in Context, the authors resist the traditional storylines of great achievements by eminent people, or schools of thought that rise and fall in the wake of scientifi……続きを見る

Asthma is a familiar and growing disease today, but its story goes back to the ancient world, as we know from accounts in ancient texts from China, India, Greece and Rome. It was treated with acupun……続きを見る

The Fontana History of Chemistry, which draws on both the author’s own original research and that of other scholars, is an unrivalled work of synthesis. Beginning with the first tentative chemical e……続きを見る

The press and other media constantly report news stories about dangerous chemicals in the environment, miracle cures, the safety of therapeutic treatments, and potential cancer-causing agents. But ……続きを見る

Bethlem Hospital, popularly known as "Bedlam", is a unique institution. Now seven hundred and fifty years old, it has been continuously involved in the care of the mentally ill in London since at le……続きを見る

Could Lincoln have lived? After John Wilkes Booth fired a low-velocity .44 caliber bullet into the back of the president's skull, Lincoln did not perish immediately. Attending doctors cleaned and pr……続きを見る

Every spring, summer, and fall it descends on us, bringing rounds of sneezing, headaches, and stuffed noses. It attacks through foods, animals, plants, and innumerable chemical combinations. It is a……続きを見る

In 1961 John F. Kennedy pledged to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Nine years later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Ten years later, Richard Nixon echoed this ple……続きを見る