The story of medicine
Subtitle: from bloodletting to biotechnology
By: Mary Dobson
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781780879086
Subjects: Medicine; History
Other titles: Medicine
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 235) and index.
Table of contents: title: Concepts and theories of disease; title: Bad blood and bad airs; title: Bones and bodies; title: Germs and genes; title: Practitioners and patients; title: Physicians and healers; title: Hospitals and nursing care; title: Barbers and surgeons; title: Tooth-drawers and dentists; title: Treatments and therapies; title: Bloodletting and purging; title: Opium, morphine, and heroin; title: Pharmacy and patent medicines; title: Complementary and alternative medicine; title: Modern medicines and vaccines; title: New drugs from old remedies; title: Magic bullets and blockbuster drugs; title: Testing treatments and clinical trials; title: Vaccination and preventive medicine.