Published June, 2014
By Richard Barnett
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Presents a visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography. This volume combines detailed illustrations of afflicted patients from some of the worlds rarest medical books, that forms a profoundly human reminder of mankinds struggle with disease. It features historic maps, pioneering charts and contemporary case notes.

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Published March, 2012
By Mike Jay
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Looks at the earliest archaeological evidence of drug use, the botanicals of the classical world, and, the mind-bending self-experiments of early scientists. This title explores the international spectrum of drug use in cultures throughout the modern world.

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Published September, 2011
By William Bynum, Helen Bynum and William F. Bynum
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Provides an account of the evolution of medical knowledge and practice from ancient Egypt, India and China to todays technology, from letting blood to keyhole surgery, from the theory of humours to the genetic revolution.

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Published October, 2010
By Mike Jay
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Explores the spectrum of drug use across the globe and throughout history, from its roots in animal intoxication to its future in designer neurochemicals.

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Published January, 2006
By Michael J. Ackerman, National Library of Medicine, Benjamin A. Rifkin and Judy Folkenberg
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Chronicles the history of anatomical illustration from the Renaissance to the digital Visible Human project. This survey of five and a half centuries of visual description by anatomists and artists is useful to the artists, art students, doctors and those interested in the history of science.

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