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  • A Surgical Temptation

    The Demonization of the Foreskin & the Rise of Circumcision in Britain

    par Robert Darby ...
    In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. A century later, British doctors urged parents to circumcise their sons as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dysfunction, from syphilis and phimosis to masturbation and bed-wetting. Thirty years later the procedure again came under hostile scrutiny, culminating in ... En savoir plus

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  • Swazi Baka

    The Kandu Warrior

    par Robert Darby ...
    Swazi Baka is a young man who wanted to become a Kandu warrior. He later found the girl of his dreams and started to have second thought about being a Kandu warrior. Swazi had to make a decision whether to pursue his warrior dreams or pursue the girl of his dreams. Swazi mother do not want him to become a Kandu warrior. She wants him to settle down and become a husband and father. She's hoping ... En savoir plus

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  • All in Her Head

    The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today

    par Elizabeth Comen ...
    Finalist for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardUSA Today Bestseller“All in Her Head accomplishes a remarkable feat of storytelling. By combining essential medical histories about women’s bodies with all the narrative propulsion of a medical thriller, Comen has written a must-read, compelling, and important book.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Em... ... En savoir plus

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  • Unwell Women

    Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

    par Elinor Cleghorn ...
    A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health—from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases—brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative.Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Complaints & Disorders

    The Sexual Politics of Sickness

    Collections series Contemporary Classics
    The classic work on women's health and how the medical establishment helped to justify sexism, by the authors of Witches, Midwives, and Nurses.From Barbara Ehrenrich, New York Times-bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Bright-Sided, and other titles, and Deirdre English, former editor of Mother Jones, this book delves into the history of how women have been diagnosed, defined, and often ... En savoir plus

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  • The History of Medicine

    A Very Short Introduction

    par William Bynum ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times to the present. Focussing on the key turning points in the history of Western medicine, such as the advent of hospitals and the rise of experimental medicine, Bill Bynum offers insights into medicine's past, while at the same time engaging ... En savoir plus

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  • Studies in the Psychology of Sex VI: Sex in Relation to Society

    par Havelock Ellis ...
    The origin of these Studies dates from many years back. As a youth I was faced, as others are, by the problem of sex. Living partly in an Australian city where the ways of life were plainly seen, partly in the solitude of the bush, I was free both to contemplate and to meditate many things. A resolve slowly grew up within me: one main part of my life-work should be to make clear the problems of ... En savoir plus

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  • A Brief History of Bad Medicine

    Collections series Brief Histories
    A doctor removes the normal, healthy side of a patient's brain instead of the malignant tumor. A man whose leg is scheduled for amputation wakes up to find his healthy leg removed. These recent examples are part of a history of medical disasters and embarrassments as old as the profession itself.In Brief History of Bad Medicine, Robert M. Youngson and Ian Schott have written the definitive account ... En savoir plus

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  • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

    par Roy Porter ...
    Collections series The Norton History of Science
    **Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize"A panoramic and perfectly magnificent intellectual history of medicine…This is the book that delivers it all." —Sherwin Nuland, author of How We Die**Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking…a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book" (Los Angeles Times ... En savoir plus

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  • The Story of Pain

    From Prayer to Painkillers

    par Joanna Bourke ...
    Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. It is easy to assume this is the end of the story: 'pain-is-pain-is-pain', and that is all there is to say. But it is not. In fact, the way in ... En savoir plus

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  • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

    A Medical History of Humanity

    par Roy Porter ...
    This edition does not include illustrations.A definitive study of the history of medicine, from the earliest humans to the present day.Medicine is advancing at an incredible rate. We now have the ability to overcome sickness but also to transform the nature of life itself: in many parts of the world, human existence has simply ceased to be ‘nasty, brutish and short’. In this titanic history of ... En savoir plus

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  • Hot Flushes, Cold Science

    A History of the Modern Menopause

    par Louise Foxcroft ...
    For over two thousand years, attitudes to the menopause have created dread, shame and confusion. This meticulously researched and always entertaining book traces the history of 'the change of life' from its appearance in classical texts, via the medical literature of the eighteenth century, to up-to-the-minute contemporary clinical approaches. Its progression from natural phenomenon to full-blown ... En savoir plus

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