Books written by Christopher Lawrence
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The Western Medical Tradition: 1800-2000
An authoritative description of the important changes in Western medicine over the past two centuries.
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Blood and Oranges: Immigrant Labor and European Markets in Rural Greece
John Thompson (1995) has argued that the impact of mass media in the modern age has been most pronounced in the transforma- tion of the public sphere and the relationship between power and visibility. Starting from a notion of “mediated ...
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Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine in Edinburgh, 1919-1930: New Science in an Old Country
This book examines the Rockefeller Foundation's attempts to introduce the laboratory sciences, particularly biochemistry, into the Edinburgh medical world of the 1920s.
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Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain, 1700-1920
One of the first men to do this, and do it more successfully than any other medical figure of the century, was a Scot, William Hunter. Hunter was a lowlander, initially a surgeon who, a er a short stay in Edinburgh, qui ly realized ...
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Medical Theory, Surgical Practice: Studies in the History of Surgery
Originally published in 1992, Medical Theory, Surgical Practice examines medical and surgical concepts of disease and their relation to the practice of surgery, in particular historical settings.
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Symphony of Seduction: The Great Love Stories of Classical Composers
We can all go away, escape, breathe life-giving air, feel sun on our skin. ... 'Madame George Sand, I have to say that as of tonight, I have been thoroughly seduced,' he said, aware that Paris would soon know. What would it think?
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George Perez Storyteller
The ultimate retrospective on the stunning career of comic genius and Eisner winner George Perez covers his 30-year career in comics!
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Greater Than the Parts: Holism in Biomedicine, 1920-1950
epilogue , that concerning the role of the constitution in infective diseases , " external factors dominate the [ clinical ] picture ... " Charles R. Scriver and Barton Childs . Garrod's Inborn Factors in Disease : Including an ...
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The Western Medical Tradition: 1800-2000
This book, first published in 2006, is an authoritative description of the important changes in Western medicine over the past two centuries.