Medicine

Softcover. Chicago, HAU Books, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 303 pages, b&w illustrations. In his 1978 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, unpublished until now, Gilbert Lewis takes on essential problems for medical anthropology. Has there been progress in medicine? Consider what it was like to be ill in a Gnau village in the West Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea in 1968 and compare it with the experience of illness fifteen years later, after they gained independence. The changes involved some loss of self-reliance. Or consider Bregbo, a community in the Ivory Coast whose prophet offers healing through confession and, in some cases, long-term care in a therapeutic setting. What does this offer that psychiatric approaches to healing do not? Drawing on these and other cases, Lewis conveys the importance of the ethnographic comparison of medical beliefs in dynamic spaces of knowledge to do with illness, health, and healing, especially as these change over time and intersect with others.

Hardcover. New York, Burns Archive Press, 1st Edition, 2006, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcopies. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.4 Volumes: (SIGNED) In slipcase. Slipcase still has original mylar wrap (See image).The Biological Era, 58 pagesHospital Care, 58 pagesSeeing Insanity, 47 pagesModern Therapies, 60 pagesLimited to 10000 copies with a special edition of 300. Color, b/w and sepia illustrations throughout. White, decorated cover boards in like new condition. Pages clean, binding tight, spines straight. Slipcase fine.

Hardcover. London, British Library, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Ernest Cromwell Peake arrived in the Hankow region of inland China in 1899, the first medical missionary to attempt to bring modern medicine to the rural Chinese. Black and white images throughout.

Hardcover. New York, Burns Archive Press, 1st Edition, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcopies. (SIGNED) Domestic shipping only. Slipcase still has original mylar wrap (See image).4 Volumes: Nonpagenated (SIGNED) In slipcase.The Face, 56 pagesThe Torso, 55 pagesThe Extremities, 57 pagesThe Back, 56 pagesLimited to 5000 copies. Color, b/w and sepia illustrations throughout. Black, decorated cover boards in like new condition. Pages clean, binding tight, spines straight. Slipcase fine.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Thomas, Cowpertwait and Company, 1st, 1851, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 396 pages, tan calf covers with black leather spine label with gilt title. B&W illustrations and charts throughout. Peeling on cover and short crack along spine edge. Light foxing to pages. Pencil signature of previous owner on front flyleaf. Clean internally.

Hardcover. NY, Zone Books, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 214 pages. The philosopher and literary and cultural critic Samuel Weber returns to past narratives of plagues and pandemics to reproduce the myriad ways individual and collective, historical and actual, intentional and unintentional forces converge to reveal how cultures and societies deal with their vulnerability and mortality. The "preexisting conditions"-a phrase taken from the American healthcare industry-of these very cultures converge and collide with the urgent situations of individuals confronting the plague. Texts drawn from the Bible, Sophocles, Thucydides, Boccaccio, Luther, Defoe, Kleist, Holderlin, Artaud, and Camus demonstrate how in the process of narration individuals come to reconsider their relationship to others, to themselves, and to the collectives to which they belong and on which they depend. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Perigee Books, Reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 446 pages. Softcover with only light shelf wear to covers. Light marginal foxing to top edge. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Johnson and Warner etc., reprint, 1818, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages, full leather binding with spine label. With improvements and notes by Thomas C. James. A nice copy with only faint foxing. Volume two only of a two volume set.

Hardcover. Ottawa, NRC Research Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards, 677 pages. Very clean, bright, and tight copy. Pages unmarked.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders, reprint, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 178 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with embossed ruling and gilt lettering and design. 491 pages, b&w illustrations, plus errata page and a 24-page publisher's catalogue bound in. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 414 pages, b&w illustrations. Scholars exploring the history of science under the Nazis have generally concentrated on the Nazi destruction of science or the corruption of intellectual and liberal values. Racial Hygiene focuses on how scientists themselves participated in the construction of Nazi racial policy. Robert Proctor demonstrates that the common picture of a passive scientific community coerced into cooperation with the Nazis fails to grasp the reality of what actually happened-namely, that many of the political initiatives of the Nazis arose from within the scientific community, and that medical scientists actively designed and administered key elements of National Socialist policy. The book presents the most comprehensive account to date of German medical involvement in the sterilization and castration laws, the laws banning marriage between Jews and non-Jews, and the massive program to destroy "lives not worth living." The study traces attempts on the part of doctors to conceive of the "Jewish problem" as a "medical problem," and how medical journals openly discussed the need to find a "final solution" to Germany's Jewish and gypsy "problems." Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Burns Archive Press, 1st Edition, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 4 Volumes: (SIGNED) In slipcase. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Slipcase still has original mylar wrap (See image).1845-1870 The Pioneer Era1871-1895 The Antiseptic Era1896-1920 The X-Ray Era1921-1945 The Serology EraLimited to 2,150 copies including a special cased edition of 1000 copies. Color, b/w and sepia illustrations throughout. Black, decorated cover boards in like new condition. Pages clean, binding tight, spines straight. Slipcase fine.

Hardcover. NY, New York University, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 305 pages. Revolutionary Medicine refocuses the study of the lives of George and Martha Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John and Abigail Adams, and James and Dolley Madison away from the usual lens of politics to the unique perspective of sickness, health, and medicine in their era. For the founders, republican ideals fostered a reciprocal connection between individual health and the "health" of the nation. Studying the encounters of these American founders with illness and disease, as well as their viewpoints about good health, not only provides us with a richer and more nuanced insight into their lives, but also opens a window into the practice of medicine in the eighteenth century, which is at once intimate, personal, and first hand. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 423 pages, b&w illustrations. Published to commemorate the 850th anniversary of the founding of St Barts with two chapters devoted specifically to the development of the Medical College. A comprehensive history of London's oldest Hospital now a centre of excellence for cancer and cardiac care part of the NHS in Central London. Notation and small stamp to front endpapers, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 271 pages, b&w photographs. An account of the author's trip to French Equatorial Africa and Albert Schweitzer's jungle hospital (Lambarene), the author's stay there and conversations with Dr. Schweitzer. The author convinced Schweitzer to lend his name to an educational movement in the U.S. (the nominal reason for the trip), and states that he believes Schweitzer is a much needed Prophet of the divided Western world. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston, 2nd, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol I 927 pages plus publishers ads. Vol II 1079 pages. Full leather binding with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Edge wear, rubbing and scuffs to covers. Both volumes rear hinge cracked, but bindings still tight and strong. Pages clean and bright. previous owner's embossed stamp to front and rear end papers. Musty odor.

Hardcover. Boston, The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Green boards,gilt title box and title on front cover and spine. 151 pages plus ads, rough cut foredges. The effects and treatment of traumatic shock after World War I written by s physician who was there. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, C. M. Saxon & Co, 1st, 1856, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp decoration on covers. Includes appendix of books available from the publisher. Edge wear and tearing to spine. Shelf wear to covers. Foxing to top edge and preliminary pages. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Montpeiler, VT, Vermont Historical Society, 1st Edition, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners ID stamp on front flyleaf. Color frontispiece, b/w illustrations throughout. Dark red cloth cover boards (light moisture damage to bottom right corner of front cover, and bottom left corner of back cover), gilt title on spine and front cover board. Light tanning to pages and edges, otherwise clean. Binding good. Spine straight. A touch of moisture damage (very minimal-see image) to bottom corner of edge. History of Medical College in Woodstock, VT.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bright, clean, unclipped dust jacket. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. Shawnee Mission KS, Autism Asperger Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 37 pages, illustrated in color. Like new in a bright dust jacket.

Softcover. Sanbornton, Sant Bani Press, First Edition, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 333 pages. Softcover. Full page, full color illustrations and a few in bw. Interviews & reflections with Kirpal Singh, Baba Sawan & Sant Ajaib. Light wear to spine edges, light sunfading to lower spine. Discolored smudge to top edge. Previous owner's signature to preliminary pages. Otherwise, clean & unmarked copy.

Softcover. Kansas City, Andrews McMeel, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Tight copy. Cartoons by Cullum.