Churchill Livingstone is an

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. It was formed in 1971 from the merger of

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's medical list, E & S Livingstone (

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, Scotland) and

J & A Churchill John Spriggs Morss Churchill (1801–1875) was an English medical publisher. Life The third son of the Rev. James Churchill (1770–1820), a dissenting minister, by his wife Mary née Morss (1775–1820), a daughter of George Morss, he was born ...

(

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, England) and was owned by

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. Harcourt acquired Churchill Livingstone in 1997. It is now integrated as an

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division after Elsevier acquired Harcourt in 2001. In the past it published a number of classic medical texts, including

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's textbook '' The Principles and Practice of Medicine,

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,'' and ''

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' Textbook for Midwives.'' In the 1980s, in addition to new texts in all areas of clinical medicine, it published an extensive list of medical and nursing textbooks in low-cost editions for low-income countries supported by the UK-funded Educational Low Priced Book Scheme (ELBS).Churchill Livingstone
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