A brief history of disease, science, and medicine
Subtitle: from the Ice Age to the Genome Project
By: by Michael Kennedy.
Publisher: Asklepiad Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Mission Viejo, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 510
Subjects: History of Medicine; Science -- history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 460-470) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: In the beginning; title: The beginning of history; title: Classical Greece and Rome; title: India and China; title: The rise of Islam and Arabic medicine; title: The Middle Ages; title: The beginning of modern science; title: The Enlightenment and medicine; title: The century of the surgeon; title: The Germans; title: Medicine, bacteriology and infectious diseases; title: The rise of medicine; title: The new science; title: The development of modern surgery; title: Blood; title: The structure of DNA; title: Fleming, Florey and penicillin; title: Twentieth century medicine; title: Cardiac surgery; title: Critical care medicine and anesthesia; title: Transplantation; title: Psychiatry; title: The economics of medicine.