Published February, 2014
By Vincent Mor, Tiziana Leone and Anna Maresso
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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How to care for the increasing number of elderly people in the global population is a challenge facing governments in both the developed and the developing world. Using a series of case studies from Europe, North America and Asia, this book surveys different approaches to long-term care provision and regulation.

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Published February, 2014
By Vincent Mor, Tiziana Leone and Anna Maresso
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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How to care for the increasing number of elderly people in the global population is a challenge facing governments in both the developed and the developing world. Using a series of case studies from Europe, North America and Asia, this book surveys different approaches to long-term care provision and regulation.

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Published February, 2014
By Major Greenwood
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Originally published in 1948, this book addresses the early history of medical and social statistics and the numerical method as applied to the phenomena of human society. Greenwood covers the major developments from Graunt and Petty in the seventeenth century to Farr in the nineteenth century.

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Published January, 2014
By Walter Langdon-Brown
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First published in 1941, this book contains the substance of the Linacre Lecture for that year, delivered by Sir Walter Langdon-Brown at St John's College, Cambridge. It presents a concise account regarding 'the origin of witchcraft from primitive religion and the part it played in the evolution of remedies'.

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Published January, 2014
By Lionel Whitby
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Originally published in 1946, this book presents the content of Sir Lionel Whitby's inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Regius Chair of Physic at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the development of medicine and the history of science.

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Published January, 2014
By Siladitya Bhattacharya and Mark Hamilton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Written by leaders in the field, this concise text reviews the assessment, diagnosis and management of infertility, emphasising practical issues in the delivery of effective clinical care. An essential guide for anyone working in fertility clinics as well as doctors in training and studying for examinations.

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Published January, 2014
By William Buchan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine
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Taking the view that medicine is as much the art of avoiding ill health as it is the cure of disease, physician William Buchan (1729-1805) published this guide to the prevention and home treatment of common ailments in 1769. Its popularity led to multiple further editions over the next century.

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Published January, 2014
By Joseph Hume Spry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine
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Bath physician Joseph Hume Spry (c.1779-1859) was concerned that the popular practice of 'taking the waters' had fallen out of favour, despite anecdotal evidence of its curative powers. He responded with this 1822 treatise, urging the use of the waters to treat a range of afflictions from gout to indigestion.

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Published January, 2014
By Jonathan Pereira
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Jonathan Pereira (1804-53) died before completing a further revision of his rigorous encyclopaedia of medicinal substances. A pioneering text in pharmacology, interspersed with instructive woodcuts, it is reissued here in the updated and expanded fourth edition completed by expert colleagues and published in three parts between 1854 and 1857.

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Published January, 2014
By Jonathan Pereira
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Jonathan Pereira (1804-53) died before completing a further revision of his rigorous encyclopaedia of medicinal substances. A pioneering text in pharmacology, interspersed with instructive woodcuts, it is reissued here in the updated and expanded fourth edition completed by expert colleagues and published in three parts between 1854 and 1857.

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