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Hardcover : $122.00 Buy	Cultural Approaches to the History of Medicine Mediating Medicine in Early Modern and Modern Europe Edited by Cornelie Usborne and Willem De Blécourt Palgrave Macmillan A pioneering contribution to the cultural history of medicine exploring issues as diverse as dissection of the heart, childbirth, masturbation, animal care,...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Operations without Pain The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History Stephanie Snow Palgrave Macmillan Inhalational anaesthesia was the first medical and scientific technique to become a legitimate means of pain relief. Its introduction to medicine in 1846...

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	A History of Accident and Emergency Medicine, 1948-2004 Henry Guly Palgrave Macmillan This book describes the fight to create a new medical specialty of accident and emergency medicine against much opposition from established specialties. The...

Hardcover : $116.00 Buy	Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace The British Ship Revolution and Japanese Industrialization St Antony's Series Miwao Matsumoto Palgrave Macmillan The scientific and technological revolution in shipbuilding in the early twentieth century had a great impact on both the military and the...

Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	Palgrave Advances in Intellectual History Palgrave Advances Edited by Richard Whatmore and Brian Young Palgrave Macmillan This book provides students with a guide to the nature of intellectual history and its relationship to significant areas of academic endeavour, in addition to...

Hardcover : $110.00 Buy	Devices and Designs Medical Technologies in Historical Perspective Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History Edited by Carsten Timmermann and Julie Anderson Palgrave Macmillan This edited collection examines the role of medical technologies in the history of medicine, of new diagnostic and therapeutic tools, prostheses and...

Hardcover : $110.00 Buy	Medicine, Madness and Social History Essays in Honour of Roy Porter Edited by Roberta E. Bivins and John V. Pickstone Palgrave Macmillan Honoring and extending the work of historian Roy Porter, this volume offers lively, accessible and often topical chapters presenting orginal research on the...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	A Short History of the Drug Receptor Concept Edited by Cay-Ruediger Prüll, Andreas-Holger Maehle and Robert Francis Halliwell Palgrave Macmillan The receptor concept was one of the most influential ideas in 20th-century medicine because it could account for the highly specific effects of drugs on the...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Surgeons, Manufacturers and Patients A Transatlantic History of Total Hip Replacement Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History Julie Anderson, Francis Neary and John V. Pickstone Palgrave Macmillan The Total Hip Replacement, or Artificial Hip, was invented by British surgeons after World War Two. It became the basis of a multi-billion global industry in...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Despine and the Evolution of Psychology Historical and Medical Perspectives on Dissociative Disorders Edited and Translated by Joanne M. McKeown and Catherine G. Fine Palgrave Macmillan An annotated edition of a landmark study in the history of psychology, including extensive essays and other critical apparatus that place Antoine Despine's...

Hardcover : $44.00 Buy	Revolution in Science How Galileo and Darwin Changed Our World MacSci Mark L. Brake Palgrave Macmillan This is the compelling story of the two biggest events in the evolution of ideas: the revolutions of Galileo and Darwin. The ideological shifts that resulted...

Hardcover : $42.00 Buy	Science and Controversy A Biography of Sir Norman Lockyer, Founder Editor of Nature MacSci A.J. Meadows Palgrave Macmillan Sir Norman Lockyer left Nature, the world's leading scientific journal, as his lasting memorial. But his life, and controversial theories, are an important...

Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science Studies in European History John Henry Palgrave Macmillan A new edition of one of the most successful and established textbooks in the field, now revised, updated and extended to take into account the latest...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Nature's End History and the Environment Edited by Sverker Sorlin and Paul Warde Palgrave Macmillan Environmental History as a distinct discipline is now over a generation old, with a large and diverse group of practitioners around the globe. This book...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890-1950 Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History Edited by Jonathan Simon and Christoph Gradmann Palgrave Macmillan This book provides an examination of the regulations that have been successively put into place since the Second World War to standardize the quality and...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Women's Bodies and Medical Science An Inquiry into Cervical Cancer Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History Linda Bryder Palgrave Macmillan An analysis of a scandal involving a doctor accused of allowing a number of women to develop cervical cancer from carcinoma in situ as part of an experiment...

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Uranium Wars

The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age

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Amir D. Aczel Palgrave Macmillan

Uranium, a nondescript element when found in nature, in the past century has become more sought after than gold. Its nucleus is so heavy that it is highly...

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Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	Globalizing Polar Science Reconsidering the International Polar and Geophysical Years Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology Edited by Roger D. Launius, James Rodger Fleming, and David H. DeVorkin Palgrave Macmillan The International Polar Years (IPY) and the International Geophysical Year (IGY) represented a remarkable international collaborative scientific effort that...

Trade Paperback : $29.00 Buy	Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology Aaron Gillette Palgrave Macmillan This groundbreaking study shows that sociobiology and evolutionary psychology were undergoing rapid development in the early twentieth century, at a time when...

Hardcover : $99.00 Buy	Enlightenment, Modernity and Science Geographies of Scientific Culture and Improvement in Georgian England Tauris Historical Geography Series Paul A. Elliot I.B. Tauris Scientific culture was one of the defining characteristics of the English Enlightenment. The latest discoveries were debated in homes, institutions and towns...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	A Vision of Modern Science John Tyndall and the Role of the Scientist in Victorian Culture Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology Ursula DeYoung Palgrave Macmillan British physicist John Tyndall dedicated much of his career to establishing the scientist as a cultural authority. His campaign to free science from the...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Searching for Sasquatch Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology Brian Regal Palgrave Macmillan How does science treat evidence from the edges? This fresh and entertaining look at the search for Sasquatch concerns more than just the startling and...

Hardcover : $89.95 Buy	Materials and Medicine Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century Studies in Imperialism Pratik Chakrabarti Manchester University Press Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acquired a...

Hardcover : $26.00 Buy	Marie Curie and Her Daughters The Private Lives of Science's First Family Shelley Emling Palgrave Macmillan A new portrait of the two time Nobel winner—drawing on family letters newly released by Marie Curie’s granddaughter Marie Curie discovered the mysterious...

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