Doctors: The Illustrated History of Medical Pioneers
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
Published: Oct 08, 2008
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9781579127787
Description: The best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning How We Die chronicles the history of medicine through profiles of important physicians and research scientists and reviews key medical theories and pioneering advances, with portraits of Galen, Andreas Vesalius, William Harvey, Joseph Lister, and other medical pioneers.