A Short History of Medicine
A concise, readable, and authoritative introduction to the history of medicine.(Annals of Internal Medicine)At first glance it seems inconceivable that a historian could, in a brief text, adequately capture the history of medicine from primitive times through early civilizations, classical antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and up to the mid-twentieth century. Edwin H. Ackerknecht accomplsihes this task and he does it with verve, clarity, and style.(Barbara BrodieNursing History Review)