Disease and medicine in world history
By: Sheldon Watts.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Medicine -- History
Description: "Disease and Medicine in World History is a concise introduction to diverse ideas about diseases and their treatment throughout the world. Drawing on case studies from ancient Egypt to present-day America, Asia and Europe, this survey discusses concepts of sickness and forms of treatment in many cultures. Sheldon Watts shows that many medical systems in the past were shaped as much by philosophers and metaphysicians as by university-trained doctors and other practitioners."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sickness and health, a global concern; title: Before the advent of acute epidemic diseases: pharaonic Egypt and the preconquest New World: extinct societies; title: Pluralism in ancient Greece; title: The evolution of medical systems in the Middle East c. 632 CE to modern times; title: Health and healing on the Indian subcontinent before 1869; title: Medicine and disease in China: concepts and practices from c. 1900 BCE to 1840 CE; title: The globalization of disease after 1450; title: Medicine and disease in the West, 1054-1840; title: The birth of modern scientific medicine: the German lands contrasted with the United Kingdom and the British in India; title: Health and medicine in the world, 1940 to the present.