A short history of medicine
By: Erwin H. Ackerknecht
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Baltimore; London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780801827266
Copyright date: 1982
Subjects: History of Medicine
Table of contents: title: Preface to first edition; title: Preface, 1982 edition; title: Why medical history?; title: Paleopathology and paleomedicine; title: Primitive medicine; title: Medicine of ancient civilizations; title: Ancient India and China; title: Greek medicine : physicians, priests, philosophers; title: Greek medicine : Hippocratic medicine; title: Greek medicine : Alexandria and Rome; title: Medieval medicine; title: Renaissance medicine; title: Medicine in the seventeenth century; title: Medicine in the eighteenth century; title: The clinical schools of the first half of the nineteenth century; title: The basic sciences during the nineteenth century; title: Clinical medicine of the second half of the nineteenth century; title: Microbiology; title: Surgery and gynecology in the nineteenth century; title: The new specialism of the nineteenth century; title: Public health and professional developments in the nineteenth century; title: Medicine in the United States prior to 1900; title: Epilogue : Trends in twentieth-century medicine; title: Nobel Laureates in medicine and physiology, 1901-1981; title: Suggestions for further reading