Medicine From Hippocrates to Gene Therapy

Name: Medicine From Hippocrates to Gene Therapy
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ISBN: 9780786715251

ISBN-10: 0786715251

ISBN-13: 9780786715251

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Authors: Paul Strathern

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The foundations for the scientific study of the body and modern Western medicine as we know it started with William Harvey's discovery of the circulatory system in the early 17th century. But its roots stretch back as far as ancient Greece, when medicine first departed from the divine and the mystical and moved toward observation and logic. Its early development was slow, constrained by the taboo around dissection (only external symptoms could be used for diagnosis), as well as superstition and mysticism (illness was the work of demons and pixies and curable only by penitence). Paul Strathern steers us skillfully through the maze of discoveries, diseases, and wrong turns that have made…

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List price: $13.95
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
Publication date: 7/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Paul Strathern has a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Philosophy and lectures at Kingston University. Strathern is the author of several novels, including A Season in Abyssinia, which won a Somerset Maugham prize, and Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements. He has also published two series of books, one on philosophy: Philosophers in 90 Minutes, and another on science, but is best known for his 39 short biographies of philosophers and scientists



Prologue : reading amid the battle



Out of the darkness : first light



A tradition is born



Figures in a dark landscape



A fresh start



Blueprint for a science



Harvey the circulator



Explorer of an invisible world



An era of medical enlightenment



A new cure for an old scourge



Giants of physiology



Eliminating the surgeon's enemy



The pioneer women



Pride and prejudice



Medicine for the world



The start of the modern era



A new form of surgery



Cures for the incurable?



The secret of life?