The Cambridge history of medicine / edited by Roy Porter.
"Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, The Cambridge History of Medicine surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key dev...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
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| Summary: | "Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, The Cambridge History of Medicine surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events, while at the same time engaging with the issues, discoveries, and controversies that have beset and characterized medical progress. The authors weave a narrative that connects disease, doctors, primary care, surgery, the rise of hospitals, drug treatment and pharmacology, mental illness and psychiatry. This volume emphasizes the crucial developments of the past 150 years, but also examines classical, medieval, and Islamic and East Asian medicine. Authoritative and accessible, The Cambridge History of Medicine is for readers wanting a lively and informative introduction to medical history."--Publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | Revised edition of: The Cambridge illustrated history of medicine. 1996. |
| Physical Description: | vi, 408 pages : maps ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-382) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521864267 9780521864268 0521682894 9780521682893 |