Presents fifteen real-life medical detective stories. This title includes stories that entertain us and teach us much about medicine, its history, and the subtle interactions among pathogens, humans, and the environment.

A ground-breaking exploration of the chilling history behind an increasingly common diagnosis.

Tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular triumph of medicine and public health.

What was medicine like in the time of Shakespeare and Oliver Cromwell? Documenting the use of household substances and remedies, this book looks at the emergence of modern medicine from everyday cures such as herbs, oils and foods. It also presents an investigation into the private lives of the spirited Stuarts of the 17th century.

Combining innovative political analysis with a compelling social history of those caught up in Minnesota's welfare system, Fixing the Poor is a powerful reinterpretation of eugenic sterilization.

A social history of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic's effects on an Ireland where normal patterns of life were disturbed by war and the growing separatist movement. The influenza seemed to disrupt every aspect of Irish life - culture, economics, politics, medicine and family life. -- .

A fascinating history of the practice of surgery from one of the leading figures in the field, chronicling centuries of scientific breakthroughs by the discipline's most dynamic, pioneering doctors.

A book about the major fallacies crippling modern medicine.