Western Medicine An Illustrated History

Name: Western Medicine An Illustrated History
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ISBN: 9780199248131

ISBN-10: 0199248133

ISBN-13: 9780199248131

Edition: 2001

Authors: Irvine Loudon

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The story of medicine in the West from Ancient Greece to the present day. A team of distinguished medical historians describes the great landmarks of medical development and set them in their social and historical context. They also tell describe the less well documented developments such as the rise of the medical profession, epidemics and the spread of disease, the rise of nursing and the modern hospital, medicine and politics.

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/7/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 362
Size: 7.01" wide x 9.53" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 2.112



List of Colour Illustrations


List of Contributors



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




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 Patient's View



Glossary


Chronology


Index