Medicine and the Reign of Technology
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 27, 1981
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521282239
Subjects: History Of Medicine; Medical innovations; Medical Instrumentation; Science; Medical; Medical technology; General; History; Medical / History; Medical-History; Science / General; Diagnosis; Medicine
First sentence: At the beginning of the seventeenth century, developments in science and technology that would create modern medicine still lay in the future - the stethoscope, bacteriology, the X-ray.