| Description |
xvi, 347 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color), maps, portraits (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Medicine in View: Art and Visual Representation / Martin Kemp -- 2. Medicine in the Classical World / James Longrigg -- 3. Europe and Islam / Emilie Savage-Smith -- 4. Medicine in the Latin Middle Ages / Michael R. McVaugh -- 5. Medicine and the Renaissance / Katharine Park -- 6. From the Scientific Revolution to the Germ Theory / Harold Cook -- 7. From the Germ Theory to 1945 / E. M. Tansey -- 8. Medicine in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century / Stephen Lock -- 9. The Growth of Medical Education and the Medical Profession / Lisa Rosner -- 10. The Rise of the Modern Hospital / Ulrich Trohler and Cay-Rudiger Prull -- 11. Epidemics and the Geography of Disease / Mary Dobson -- 12. Nurses and Ancillaries in the Christian Era / Anne Summers -- 13. Childbirth / Irvine Loudon -- 14. Children in Hospital / J. A. Walker-Smith -- 15. Medicine and the Mind / Michael Neve -- 16. The Spread of Western Medicine / Michael Worboys |
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17. Unofficial and Unorthodox Medicine / Margaret Pelling -- 18. Medicine, Politics, and the State / Jane Lewis -- 19. The Patient's View / Anne Digby |
| Summary |
Overview of the historical development of Western medicine |
| Analysis |
History of Medicine |
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Medicine - History |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-315) and index |
| Subject |
Medicine -- History.
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Rongoā -- History
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History of Medicine.
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History of Medicine.
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History of Medicine.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631
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| Author |
Loudon, Irvine.
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| LC no. |
97218848 |
| ISBN |
0198205090 |
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