Sources in the history of medicine
Subtitle: the impact of disease and trauma
By: edited by Robin L. Anderson.
Contributors: Anderson, Robin L.
Publisher: Pearson/Prentice Hall
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Subjects: Medicine -- History; Disease -- History; Diseases and history; History of Medicine; Communicable Diseases -- history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Paleopathology and primitive medicine; title: The Middle East in antiquity; title: China and India in antiquity; title: Greece; title: Rome and Byzantium; title: Europe, 500-1500; title: Medicine in the Muslim world and the Americas, 700-1500; title: The Renaissance and the scientific revolution: technical and theoretical change; title: Europe, 1500-1800: health, disease, trauma, and society; title: The nineteenth century: the development and spread of Western medicine; title: The nineteenth century: change and upheaval; title: The twentieth century: advances and challenges; title: The twentieth century: new enemies, old nemeses; title: A brave new century: dilemmas in twenty-first-century medicine.