Medicine in Society
Subtitle: Historical Essays
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 28, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780521333511
Subjects: History Of Medicine; Social Conditions; Medical / Nursing; Science/Mathematics; Social medicine; Health Care Delivery; Medical / History; Medicine--History; History; Medicine
First sentence: The earliest literary record of classical Greece, the Iliad of Homer, provided the ancient doctor with both a paradigm of his success and a premonition of his failure.