Medical History

Cover of The Great Influenza by John M. Barry, showcasing a hospital ward filled with beds during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Includes a note about a new afterword on COVID-19

$19.00

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

Cover of Asleep by Molly Caldwell Crosby, featuring a historic photo of rows of patients in beds. The book discusses the forgotten epidemic of encephalitis lethargica, known as sleeping sickness, which puzzled neurologists in its time.

$24.00

Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries

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$18.00

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

Cover of The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris, featuring a bandaged soldier reflected on a surgical knife. Set against a green background with an orange-gloved hand holding the knife and overlaid with white text.

$20.00

The Facemaker [Paperback]

Black book cover of Pandemic 1918 in yellow text by Catharine Arnold in white text, showcasing a historical photo of rows of patients in a large, crowded hospital ward during the Spanish Flu outbreak.

$19.00

Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History

$16.00

Empires of the Dead

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Book cover titled People of the Plague, capturing the essence of historical fiction with masked individuals in black and white above rows of covered bodies.

$17.00

People of the Plague: Philadelphia Flu Epidemic 1918

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Book cover featuring American Pandemic by Nancy K. Bristow, overlaying a historic photo of a crowded 1918 influenza pandemic ward, capturing the social and cultural history with rows of hospital beds and weary patients.

$39.00

American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic

$25.00

Fatal Decision: Edith Cavell World War I Nurse

$25.00

Nurses of Passchendaele

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$20.00

A Surgeon in Khaki: Through France and Flanders in World War I

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$41.00

Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation's Humanitarian Awakening

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Cover of the book Wounded by Emily Mayhew, featuring a black-and-white photo of wounded soldiers in World War I uniforms,

$19.00

Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I

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$25.00

The Stretcher Bearers

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Cover of the book Lifesavers and Body Snatchers by Tim Cook, featuring a black-and-white photo of soldiers assisting each other in a muddy battlefield overlaid with white and red text.

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Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War

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$17.00

The Woman at the Front

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Red book cover of More Deadly Than War by Kenneth C. Davis in white text, featuring two children wearing masks. Subtext: The Hidden Pandemic History of the Spanish Influenza and World War I in yellow text.

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More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War

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$52.00

The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal

Book cover of Wars Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America by Beth Linker featuring a black and white photograph of two soldiers, one with a prosthetic leg.

$45.00

War’s Waste Rehabilitation in World War I America [Paperback]

Book cover for Nursing Through Shot and Spell: A great war nurse's story edited by Dr. Vivien Newman featuring images of a nurse and wounded soldiers overlaid with white and orange text at the bottom.

$25.00

Nursing Through Shot and Shell: A Great War Nurse's Story

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Book cover of No Man's Land by Wendy Moore showcases a black-and-white photo of female doctors attending to a patient. Quotes and title stand out in striking red and white text.

$19.00

No Man's Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I

Red book cover: Russia's Sisters of Mercy and the Great War by Laurie S Stoff in white text. Illustration of a Great War nurse tending to a soldier with a red cross on her apron. Subheading: more than binding men's wounds in black text.

$50.00

Russia's Sisters of Mercy and the Great War: More Than Binding Men's Wounds

$16.00

Edith Cavell, Nurse Hero

Cover of "Recycling the Disabled" by Heather R. Perry, showcasing a photo of men in uniform exercising with poles, set against the backdrop of WWI Germany. The scene subtly highlights the era's advancements in prosthetic technology and orthopaedic medicine.

$50.00

Recycling the disabled: Army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany

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