326円 Libro de Tests Verdadero/Falso sobre Historia de la psicología, útil y valioso tanto para comprobar que conceptos es necesario reforzar como para preparar las asignaturas universitarias que contemplen en su temario la Historia de la Psicología. Obra con más de quinientas cuestiones, que resultará...

5,300円 From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism presents the history of medical practice in Costa Rica from the late colonial eraーwhen none of the fifty thousand inhabitants had access to a titled physician, pharmacist, or midwifeーto the 1940s, when the figure of the qualified medical doctor was part...

5,300円 This collection expands the history of colonial medicine and public health by exploring efforts to overcome disease and improve human health in Chinese regions of East Asia from the late nineteenth century to the present. The contributors consider the science and politics of public health policym...

5,300円 For decades, tuberculosis in Buenos Aires was more than a dangerous bacillus. It was also an anxious state of mind shaped not only by fears of contagion and death but also by broader social and cultural concerns. These worries included changing work routines, rapid urban growth and its consequenc...

1,126円 Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that haunts the human imagination. Through the centuries, in poetry and in prose, in drama and in the visual arts, its depredations are on display for all to see. A whol...

3,000円 Bilan historique et génétique du syndrome de Down. La trisomie 21, habituellement nommée syndrome de Down, mais qui en toute équité historique devrait s’appeler syndrome de Seguin-Down-Lejeune, est le mieux connu et un des plus fréquents syndromes génétiques congénitaux du handicap cognitif. Il t...

1,126円 How does the brain work? How different is a human brain from other creatures' brains? Is the human brain still evolving? In this fascinating book, Michael O'Shea provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain research, and gives a sense of how neuroscience ...

1,126円 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 pledge by declaring a 'war' on cancer. More than 30 years later, however, cancer remains one of the la...

10,612円 Originally published in 1991 as part of the Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry series, this re-edition of J-M. Charcot’s Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System provides a unique opportunity to examine the work of one of the last century’s most controversial and admired p...

3,178円 At one point in the 1970s 900 people were engaged with a therapeutic community in Toronto. Living together and sharing emotional problems the participants helped to create an institution owning houses farms and buildings. Therafields the largest urban commune in Canada was created by Lea Hindley-...

2,653円 An entertaining introduction to the quacks, snake-oil salesmen, and charlatans, who often had a point Despite rampant scientific innovation in nineteenth-century America, traditional medicine still adhered to ancient healing methods such as induced vomiting and bleeding, blistering, and sweating ...

1,326円 Every subject has its history, including the Social Determinants of Health. It is a subject that investigates differences in human health that occur because of social life, from income and class to family life and neighbourhood. Social determinants can have very large effects on longevity, just a...