Medicine

From the birth of the scientific outlook in the sixth century BCE, when practitioners first began to rely upon observation and reason, to the race to map the human genome, Paul Strathern follows the development of medicine through the lives of individuals including Hippocrates, William Harvey and Alexander Fleming. This accessible volume offers essential insights into the history of medical practice and pays tribute to human perseverance and achievement.

Part of the Oxford Pain Management Library series of medical handbooks. This volume deals with one of the most common reasons cited by patients seeking medical help, back pain,

Part of the Oxford Endocrinology Library series of medical handbooks. This volume provides guidance on diagnosis, treatment and safe handling of male testosterone deficiency,

Born in Devon, Thomas Glass (1709-1786) trained in Leyden and moved to Exeter in 1740, then devoted the rest of his life to his work as a physician and to the people of Exeter. This biography provides a portrait of Glass as one of the pioneering doctors of his day.

Although first published over 50 years ago, Richardson's 'broad outline of the evolution of modern surgery' remains an absorbing account of great surgeons and surgical breakthroughs, written for both professional and general readers. The book covers all the major types of surgery and ranges in date from the discovery of anaesthesia to the first heart transplants, on the verge of modern practice. This new edition includes a great deal of new material, and a much expanded bibliography. Slightly off-mint.

Based on an electronic corpus of some two million medical texts from c.1500-1700, this volume of twelve essays provides a new perspective on the evolution of the special language of medicine. From the Studies in English Language series.

Marlos AG Viana’s text combines notions of algebra and statistics and develops a systematic methodology to better explore many different data-analytic applications of symmetry. Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics.