Medicine and the five senses
By: edited by W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter.
Contributors: Bynum, W. F. 1943-; Porter, Roy, 1946-; Symposium on Medicine and the Five Senses (1987 : Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine)
Publisher: Cambidge University Press; Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York, N.Y., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Medicine -- History -- Congresses.; Senses and sensation -- History -- Congresses.; Diagnosis, Physical -- History -- Congresses.; History of Medicine -- congresses.; Sensation -- congresses.; Sense Organs -- congresses.
Description: "From the days of Hippocratic 'bedside medicine' to the advent of the CAT scanner, doctors have always relied on their senses in diagnosing and treating disease. Medical education, from the apprenticeship, to the rise of the laboratory, has sought to train the senses of students who must act like medical detectives."--Back Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-323) and index.
Based on a Symposium on Medicine and the Five Senses, held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine on 11-12 June 1987.