| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
xvi, 831 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 719-764) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Medicine -- History.
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Social medicine -- History.
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| ISBN |
0393046346 |
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