A short history of medicine
By: Erwin H. Ackerknecht ; foreword and concluding essay by Charles E. Rosenberg ; bibliographic essay by Lisa Haushofer
Contributors: Rosenberg, Charles E.; Haushofer, Lisa
Edition: Revised and expanded edition.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781421419541
Subjects: Medicine; History
Notes: "Originally published in English ... by the Ronald Press Company, New York, 1955"--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: 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.