Covering all periods from Ancient Greece to the present day, this richly illustrated history of medicine offers information and insight on a wide variety of topics. The great milestones of medical history - among them the discovery of the circulation of the blood, vaccination against smallpox, the invention of the X-ray, the development of penicillin - are charted. They are set against the social context of medicine, with accounts of more neglected areas such as patterns ofepidemics, the emergence of the medical profession, the history of nursing, unorthodox medical practice, the spread of western medicine beyond Europe and the US, and the patients viewpoint. Authoritatively and accessibly written by a team of twenty distinguished medical historians and including a helpful glossary, a chronology, and a full index, this is a fascinating introduction to medicine in the west from its beginnings to the present day.
List of Colour Illustrations; List of Contributors; I. FROM THE HIPPOCRATIC CORPUS TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY MEDICINE; Medicine in View:: Art and Visual Representation; Medicine in the Classical World; Europe and Islam; Medicine in the Middle Ages c.500-1350; Medicine and the Renaissance; From the Scientific Revolution to Germ Theory; From Germ Theory to 1945; From 1950 to the Present; II. MEDICINE IN CONTEXT; The Growth of Medical Education and the Medical Profession; The Rise of the Modern Hospital; Epidemics and the Geography of Disease; Nurses and Ancilliaries in the Christian Era; Childbirth; Children in Hospital 1850-1990; Medicine and the Mind; The Spread of Western Medicine; Unofficial and Unorthodox Medicine; Medicine, Politics, and the State; The Patients View; Glossary; Chronology; Index;
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