The decline of therapeutic bloodletting and the collapse of traditional medicine
By: K. Codell Carter
Publisher: Transaction Publishers; Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781412846042
Subjects: Traditional Medicine; History, 19th Century; History; Bloodletting; Attitude to Health
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bloodletting and inflammation; title: Bloodletting and social norms; title: Disease and causes of disease in early nineteenth century medical thought; title: The early nineteenth century conception of quackery; title: The Edinburgh bloodletting controversy; title: Ignaz Semmelweis and the adoption of etiological concepts of disease; title: The collapse of traditional medicine and the rise of medical science; title: The current crisis in epidemiology.