PHIL2191 History, Science and Medicine reading list
The books on Durham University's 2026/27 reading list for PHIL2191, matched by exact ISBN to second-hand copies from UK students.
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Medicine in society: historical essays
Wear, A.
ISBN 9780511599682
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Have it? Sell yoursHypnotism
Moll, Albert
ISBN 9780243754076
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Have it? Sell yoursBritish medicine in an age of reform
French, R. K., Wear, A., Royal Institution Centre for the History of Science and Technology
ISBN 9781134935307
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Have it? Sell yoursMedicine and morals in the Enlightenment: John Gregory, Thomas Percival and Benjamin Rush
Haakonssen, Lisbeth
ISBN 9789401200233
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Have it? Sell yoursColonizing the body: state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India
Arnold, David
ISBN 9780520913929
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Have it? Sell yoursThe birth of the clinic: an archaeology of medical perception
Foucault, Michel
ISBN 9781135864767
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Have it? Sell yoursLetters on the Elementary Principles of Education: Volume 1
Hamilton, Elizabeth
ISBN 9781107252486
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Have it? Sell yoursThe gospel of germs: men, women, and the microbe in American life
Tomes, Nancy, American Council of Learned Societies
ISBN 9780674257146
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Have it? Sell yoursFreud
Lear, Jonathan · Second edition
ISBN 9781315771915
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Have it? Sell yoursFrom Eve to evolution: Darwin, science, and women's rights in Gilded Age America
Hamlin, Kimberly A.
ISBN 9780226134758
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Have it? Sell yoursDoctors and ethics: the earlier historical setting of professional ethics
Wear, A., Geyer-Kordesch, Johanna, French, R. K.
ISBN 9789004418349
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Have it? Sell yoursA midwife's tale: the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
ISBN 9780307772985
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Have it? Sell yoursThe science of sympathy: morality, evolution, and Victorian civilization
Boddice, Rob
ISBN 9780252099021
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Have it? Sell yoursHealing traditions: African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948
Flint, Karen Elizabeth
ISBN 9780821443026
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Have it? Sell yoursMadness and civilization: a history of insanity in the age of reason
Foucault, Michel, MyiLibrary
ISBN 9786610442799
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Have it? Sell yoursMaladies of empire: how colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine
Downs, Jim
ISBN 9780674249882
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Have it? Sell yoursContagious: cultures, carriers, and the outbreak narrative
Wald, Priscilla
ISBN 9780822341284
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Have it? Sell yoursPatient zero and the making of the AIDS epidemic
McKay, Richard Andrew
ISBN 9780226064000
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Have it? Sell yoursMedical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia
ISBN 9780820351346
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Have it? Sell yoursEpidemic urbanism: contagious diseases in global cities
Gharipour, Mohammad, DeClercq, Caitlin
ISBN 9781789384680
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Have it? Sell yoursDifference and disease: medicine, race, and the eighteenth-century British Empire
Seth, Suman
ISBN 9781108304856
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Have it? Sell yoursStudies in hysteria
Freud, Sigmund, Breuer, Josef, Luckhurst, Nicola
ISBN 9781101644812
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On the normal and the pathological
Canguilhem, Georges
ISBN 9789400998537
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Have it? Sell yoursThinking in cases
Forrester, John
ISBN 9781509508655
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Have it? Sell yoursFreud in his time and ours
Roudinesco, Elisabeth, Porter, Catherine
ISBN 9780674659568
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Have it? Sell yoursA social history of truth: civility and science in seventeenth-century England
Shapin, Steven
ISBN 9780226148847
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Have it? Sell yoursThinking in cases
Forrester, John
ISBN 9781509508624
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Have it? Sell yoursThe Golem at large: what you should know about technology
Collins, H. M., Pinch, Trevor
ISBN 9780511541353
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Have it? Sell yoursLines: a brief history
Ingold, Tim
ISBN 9780415424271
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Have it? Sell yoursBaroque science
Gal, Ofer, Chen-Morris, Raz
ISBN 9780226923987
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Have it? Sell yoursSexual visions: images of gender in science and medicine between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries
Jordanova, L. J.
ISBN 9780299122904
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Have it? Sell yoursThe death of nature: women, ecology, and the scientific revolution
Merchant, Carolyn
ISBN 9780062505958
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Have it? Sell yoursThe most solitary of afflictions: madness and society in Britain 1700-1900
Scull, Andrew
ISBN 9780300050516
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Have it? Sell yoursTrees of life: a visual history of evolution
Pietsch, Theodore W. · Johns Hopkins paperback edition
ISBN 9781421404790
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Have it? Sell yoursReworking the bench: research notebooks in the history of science
Renn, Jürgen, Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg
ISBN 9789048161836
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Have it? Sell yoursNature displayed: gender, science, and medicine, 1760-1820
Jordanova, L. J.
ISBN 9781315841137
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Have it? Sell yoursProfession and monopoly: a study of medicine in the United States and Great Britain
Berlant, Jeffrey Lionel
ISBN 9780520027343
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Have it? Sell yoursVictorian science in context
Lightman, Bernard V.
ISBN 9780226481104
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Have it? Sell yoursTrees of knowledge: science and the shape of genealogy
Hellström, Petter
ISBN 9789151307114
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Have it? Sell yoursDiscovery of Vitamins: 100th Anniversary Special Issue
Semba, R.D., Kraemer, K.
ISBN 9783318022889
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Have it? Sell yoursThe idea of race in science: Great Britain, 1800-1960
Stepan, Nancy
ISBN 9781349054527
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Have it? Sell yoursOn hysteria: the invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820
Arnaud, Sabine
ISBN 9780226275680
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Have it? Sell yoursCharles Darwin, geologist
Herbert, Sandra
ISBN 9780801443480
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Have it? Sell yoursRegimes of description: in the archive of the eighteenth century
Bender, John B., Marrinan, Michael
ISBN 9780804747417
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Have it? Sell yoursScience and spirituality: the volatile connection
Knight, David
ISBN 9780415257695
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Have it? Sell yoursThe idea of race in science: Great Britain, 1800-1960
Stepan, Nancy Leys
ISBN 9780208019721
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Have it? Sell yoursEvolution: The History of an Idea, 25th Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface
Bowler, Peter J. · Reprint 2020
ISBN 9780520945326
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Have it? Sell yoursThe making of British bioethics
Wilson, Duncan
ISBN 9781526102829
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Have it? Sell yoursThe Works of Francis Bacon: Volume 2: Philosophical Works 2
Bacon, Francis
ISBN 9781139149556
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Have it? Sell yoursHistories of scientific observation
Daston, Lorraine, Lunbeck, Elizabeth
ISBN 9780226136783
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Have it? Sell yoursPhilosophy, technology, and the arts in the early modern era
Rossi, Paolo, Attanasio, Salvator · [1st ed.]
ISBN 9780061314582
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Have it? Sell yoursVivisection in historical perspective
Rupke, Nicolaas A.
ISBN 9780415050210
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Have it? Sell yoursThe Scottish Enlightenment: race, gender, and the limits of progress
Sebastiani, Silvia, Carden, Jeremy
ISBN 9781137069795
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Have it? Sell yoursScience and religion: some historical perspectives
Brooke, John Hedley
ISBN 9781139959360
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Have it? Sell yoursA HIDEOUS MONSTER OF THE MIND
Dain, Bruce R.
ISBN 9780674030145
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Have it? Sell yoursObserving by hand: sketching the nebulae in the nineteenth century
Nasim, Omar W.
ISBN 9780226084404
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Have it? Sell yoursClimate in motion: science, empire, and the problem of scale
Coen, Deborah R.
ISBN 9780226555027
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Have it? Sell yoursThe codification of medical morality: historical and philosophical studies of the formalization of western medical morality in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Volume two: Anglo-American medical ethics and medical jurisprudence in the nineteenth century
Baker, Robert, Porter, Dorothy, Porter, Roy
ISBN 9780585274447
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Have it? Sell yoursBaroque science
Gal, Ofer, Chen-Morris, Raz
ISBN 9780226923994
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Have it? Sell yoursSites of the unconscious: hypnosis and the emergence of the psychoanalytic setting
Mayer, Andreas, Barber, Christopher
ISBN 9780226058009
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Have it? Sell yoursThe healer's calling: women and medicine in early New England
Tannenbaum, Rebecca J.
ISBN 9780801474934
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Have it? Sell yoursNatural theology: or, evidence of the existence and attributes of the deity, collected from the appearances of nature
Paley, William, Eddy, Matthew, Knight, David M.
ISBN 9781429487184
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Have it? Sell yoursThat devil's trick: hypnotism and the Victorian popular imagination
Hughes, William, Manchester University Press
ISBN 9781526101976
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Have it? Sell yoursA history of the case study: sexology, psychoanalysis, literature
Lang, Birgit, Damousi, Joy, Lewis, Alison
ISBN 9780719099434
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Have it? Sell yoursThe Codification of Medical Morality: Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Formalization of Western Medical Morality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Volume One: Medical Ethics and Etiquette in the Eighteenth Century
Baker, R.B., Porter, R. · 1st ed. 1993
ISBN 9789401582285
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Have it? Sell yoursObserving by hand: sketching the nebulae in the nineteenth century
Nasim, Omar W.
ISBN 9780226084374
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Have it? Sell yoursNature's body: gender in the making of modern science
Schiebinger, Londa L.
ISBN 9780813535319
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Have it? Sell yoursFrancis Bacon: from magic to science
Rossi, Paolo
ISBN 9781135028107
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Have it? Sell yoursThe making of British bioethics
Wilson, Duncan
ISBN 9780719096198
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Have it? Sell yoursJohn Gregory's writings on medical ethics and philosophy of medicine
Gregory, John, McCullough, Laurence B.
ISBN 9780792350002
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Have it? Sell yoursA short history of the drug receptor concept
Prüll, Cay-Rüdiger, Maehle, Andreas-Holger, Halliwell, Robert Francis, MyiLibrary
ISBN 9786612532276
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Have it? Sell yoursWhite over black: American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812
Jordan, Winthrop D., Brown, Christopher Leslie, Wood, Peter H. · Second edition
ISBN 9781469600765
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Have it? Sell yoursCuring their ills: colonial power and African illness
Vaughan, Megan
ISBN 9780745678290
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Have it? Sell yoursVictorian popularizers of science: designing nature for new audiences
Lightman, Bernard V.
ISBN 9781282426672
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Have it? Sell yoursHealth, healing and illness in African history
Lee, Rebekah
ISBN 9781474254410
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Have it? Sell yoursJohn Gregory and the invention of professional medical ethics and the profession of medicine
McCullough, Laurence B.
ISBN 9780792349174
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Have it? Sell yoursObjectivity
Daston, Lorraine, Galison, Peter
ISBN 9781942130611
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Have it? Sell yoursMaterial enlightenment: women writers and the science of mind, 1770-1830
Wharton, Joanna
ISBN 9781787443303
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Have it? Sell yoursThe confinement of the insane: international perspectives, 1800-1965
Porter, Roy, Wright, David
ISBN 9780511497612
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Have it? Sell yoursThe citadel
Cronin, A. J.
ISBN 9781447244554
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Have it? Sell yoursThe death of nature: women, ecology, and the scientific revolution
Merchant, Carolyn · 1st ed
ISBN 9780062956743
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Have it? Sell yoursFreud: In His Time and Ours
Roudinesco, Élisabeth, Porter, Catherine · Translated by Catherine Porter
ISBN 9780674974517
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Have it? Sell yoursThe earth on show: fossils and the poetics of popular science, 1802-1856
O'Connor, Ralph
ISBN 9780226616704
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Have it? Sell yoursThe origins of modern feminism: women in Britain, France and the United States, 1780-1860
Rendall, Jane
ISBN 9780333289013
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Have it? Sell yoursGolden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
Proctor, Robert
ISBN 9780520950436
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Have it? Sell yoursA culture of fact: England, 1550-1720
Shapiro, Barbara J.
ISBN 9780801436864
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Have it? Sell yoursModest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse: feminism and technoscience
Haraway, Donna Jeanne · Second edition
ISBN 9780203731093
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Have it? Sell yoursThe Role of Medicine: Dream, Mirage, or Nemesis?
McKeown, Thomas · Course Book
ISBN 9781400854622
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Have it? Sell yoursLines: a brief history
Ingold, Tim
ISBN 9786610858439
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Have it? Sell yoursThe dictionary of eighteenth-century British philosophers
Yolton, John W., Price, John Valdimir, Stephens, J. N.
ISBN 9781855061231
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Have it? Sell yoursThe Routledge companion to philosophy of medicine
Solomon, Miriam, Simon, Jeremy R., Kincaid, Harold · First edition
ISBN 9781317519843
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Have it? Sell yoursThe golem: what you should know about science
Collins, H. M., Pinch, Trevor · Second edition
ISBN 9781107295612
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Have it? Sell yoursScience and salvation: evangelical popular science publishing in Victorian Britain
Fyfe, Aileen
ISBN 9780226276465
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Have it? Sell yoursThe woman beneath the skin: a doctor's patients in eighteenth-century Germany
Duden, Barbara
ISBN 9780674954038
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Have it? Sell yoursDictionary of scientific biography
Gillispie, Charles Coulston, Holmes, Frederic Lawrence
ISBN 9780684101163
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Have it? Sell yoursOn hysteria: the invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820
Arnaud, Sabine
ISBN 9780226275543
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Have it? Sell yoursA history of the modern fact: problems of knowledge in the sciences of wealth and society
Poovey, Mary
ISBN 9780226675183
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Have it? Sell yoursPatients and practitioners: lay perceptions of medicine in pre-industrial society
Porter, Roy
ISBN 9780511563690
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Have it? Sell yoursThe Oxford handbook of natural theology
Re Manning, Russell, Brooke, John Hedley, Watts, Fraser N.
ISBN 9780191750496
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Have it? Sell yoursThe pasteurization of France
Latour, Bruno, Sheridan, Alan, Law, John
ISBN 9780674265301
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Daston, Lorraine, Galison, Peter
ISBN 9781890951788
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Have it? Sell yoursMerchants of doubt: how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming
Oreskes, Naomi, Conway, Erik M.
ISBN 9781608192939
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Have it? Sell yoursRoom 000: narratives of the Bombay plague
Kalpish Ratna
ISBN 9789382616351
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