Medicine in Society
Subtitle: Historical Essays
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 28, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780521336390
Subjects: History of Medicine; Medicine; History - General History; Medical; Social Conditions; General; Health Care Delivery; History; History-General; Medical / Health Care Delivery; Medical / History; Medical-History; Medicine--History; Social 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.