Disease and medicine
By: Irene Fekete & Peter Dorrington Ward
Contributors: Ward, Peter Dorrington
Series: The world of science
Publisher: Facts on File Publications
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780816010608
Subjects: Medicine; Popular Works; Popular Medicine
Description: This is one volume in a multivolume encyclopedia that deals with scientific subjects. Packed with photographs and text, it covers medicine in the past and today.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Talking about health; title: What is medicine?; title: Learning about health: Medicine in the past; Egypt, Greece and Rome; title: Changing circumstances and changing ideas; title: Pieces in a jigsaw; title: Blood and germs; title: New science; title: Germ theory of disease; title: Warfare in the body; title: How immunity works; title: Fighting against disease: Warfare against germs; title: Cleanliness and antiseptics; title: Magic bullets and wonder drugs; title: Weapons against pain; title: Controlling three killers; title: Viruses, mysterious enemies; title: Parasites; title: Starting out with problems; title: Sneezes, rashes and upset tummies; title: Mind and body; title: To much or too little; title: Most important muscle; title: Cancer; title: Medicine today: Doctors, their training and work; title: Nurses; title: Hospitals; title: Research and therapy; title: Surgery; title: Transplants; title: Dentistry; title: Medicine's enemies today; title: Medicine in the future; title: Glossary; title: Index.