Greater Than the Parts
Subtitle: Holism in Biomedicine, 1920-1950
Contributors: Christopher Lawrence (Editor); George Weisz (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 15, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780195109047
First sentence: The standard account of the development of medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is that medicine became increasingly reductionist in orientation and increasingly dominated by laboratory research and technology.