Man and medicine
Subtitle: a history
By: Farokh Erach Udwadia.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
Subjects: Medicine -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-462) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Archaic Medicine; title: 1. Archaic Medicine-Mesopotamia and Egypt; title: 2. Mesopotamia; title: 3. Egypt; title: 4. Medicine in Ancient Persia; title: Indian Medicine; title: 5. Ancient Indian Medicine; title: 6. Traditional Indian Medicine; title: 7. Medical Education and Public Health; title: 8. Perspectives; title: Chinese Medicine; title: 9. Historical Background; title: 10. Traditional Chinese Medicine; title: 11. The Impact of the West; title: Medicine in the Classical Age of Greece; title: 12. An Overview of the Greek World; title: 13. Medicine in Archaic Greece-The Homeric Age; title: 14. The Cult of Aesculapius; title: 15. The Italic School-The Birth of Rational Medicine; title: 16. Hippocrates; title: 17. Medicine and Philosophy-The Centre in Alexandria; title: Roman Medicine; title: 18. An Overview of the Roman Age; title: 19. The Practice of Medicine; title: 20. Galen; title: Medicine in the Dark Ages; title: 21. Decline and Fall of Rome-Medicine and Faith; title: 22. Byzantine Medicine; title: 23. Islam and Medicine; title: 24. Medicine in the Medieval West; title: Renaissance Medicine; title: 25. Historical Background of the Renaissance Era; title: 26. Medicine and Humanism; title: 27. Art and Anatomy; title: 28. Diseases in the Renaissance; title: 29. The Great Renaissance Rebels in Medicine; title: 30. The Renaissance Ends; title: Medicine in the Baroque Period; title: 31. Historical Backgroud of the Baroque Period; title: 32. Medicine in the Baroque Period; title: 33. Surgery; title: 34. Public Health and Diseases in the Seventeenth Century; title: 35. William Harvey and the Discovery of Circulation; title: 36. The Microscope; title: Medicine in the Age of; title: Enlightenment and Reason-Eighteenth Century; title: 37. Historical Canvas of the Age of Reason; title: 38. Schools of Thought in Medical Science; title: 39. The Investigators; title: 40. Medicine in the Age of Reason; title: 41. Surgery in the Age of Reason; title: 42. Public Health, Jenner and the Discovery of Vaccination Modern Medicine; title: Historical Background of the Modern Age; title: The Paris School of Medicine; title: The German School; title: The Control of Pain and the Story of Anaesthesia; title: Antisepsis and Asepsis; title: The Fight Against Infection-The Microbe Hunters; title: Military Medicine-The Red Cross and Nursing; title: Physics and Medicine; title: Mental and Nervous Diseases; title: Endocrinology; title: Deficiency Diseases and Nutrition; title: Tropical Medicine; title: Surgery; title: American Medicine; title: Specialization; title: Alternative Medicine; title: Western Medicine in India; title: Historical Backdrop of India; title: Medical Services of India; title: Diseases and Discoveries; title: Hospitals in India; title: Thoughts and Afterthoughts; title: Contemporary Medicine; title: The Present Scenario; title: The Discovery of Penicillin-The Era of Drugs; title: Medicine in the Present Day; title: Immunology; title: The Frontiers of Medicine-The Structure of Life; title: The History of Birth Control and the Contemporary Science of Reproduction; title: Cancer; title: World Health and Medicine; title: Imaging the Body; title: Advances in Surgery; title: A Perspective of Contemporary Medicine; title: 75. The Future; title: Bibliography; title: Index.