| Description |
xvi, 831 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The roots of medicine -- Antiquity -- Medicine and faith -- The medieval west -- Indian medicine -- Chinese medicine -- Renaissance -- The new science -- Enlightenment -- Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century -- Nineteenth-century medical care -- Public medicine -- From Pasteur to penicillin -- Tropical medicine, world diseases -- Psychiatry -- Medical research -- Clinical science -- Surgery -- Medicine, state and society -- Medicine and the people -- The past, the present and the future |
| Summary |
A new comprehensive book on the history of medicine |
| Notes |
British ed. published with subtitle: A medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 719-764) and index |
| Notes |
American Association for the History of Medicine William H. Welch Medal, 2003 |
| Subject |
Medicine -- History.
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Social medicine -- History.
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History of Medicine.
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History of Medicine.
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Social Medicine -- history.
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| LC no. |
98010219 |
| ISBN |
0002151731 |
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0393046346 |
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0393319806 |
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