Medicine before Science
Subtitle: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 24, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521007610
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History of medicine; Medicine, Medieval; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Physicians; Europe - General; History / Europe / General; History; Medicine
First sentence: When the medieval doctor looked into the past for the beginnings of his own profession, what he found was the figure of Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine in the medical tradition from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.