num_pages: 816
description: Divided Legacy (Vols. I-IV) is a history of Western medical philosophy from the time of Hippocrates to the twentieth century, treating it as a unified system of thought rather than a series of fortuitous discoveries. Dr. Coulter interprets the development of medical ideas as the product of a conflict between two opposed systems of thought, Empiricism and Rationalism.This second volume of Divided Legacy analyzes the dispute in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries over the criterion of reliability of medical thought and practice.
language: English
title: Divided Legacy, Volume II: A History of the Schism in Medical Thought
titlecomplete: Divided Legacy, Volume II: A History of the Schism in Medical Thought
ratings_count: 2
publisher: North Atlantic Books