ABSTRACT
This is a comprehensive reference work which surveys all aspects of the history of medicine, both clinical and social, and reflects the complementary approaches to the discipline. The editors have assembled an international team of scholars to provide detailed and informative factual surveys with contemporary interpretations and historiographical debate.
Special Features
* Comprehensive: 72 substantial and original essays from internationally respected scholars
* Unique: no other publication provides so much information in two volumes
* Broad-ranging: includes coverage of non-Western as well as Western medicine
* Up-to-date: incorporates the very latest in historical research and interpretation
* User-friendly: clearly laid out and readable, with a full index of Topics and People
* Indispensable: essential information for study and research, including bibliographic notes and cross-referencing between articles.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |11 pages
Introduction
entry |9 pages
The Art and Science of Medicine
letter |65 pages
The Place of Medicine
entry |9 pages
What is Specific to Western Medicine?
entry |21 pages
The Historiography of Medicine
entry |33 pages
Medical Care
letter |151 pages
Body Systems
entry |21 pages
The Anatomical Tradition
entry |18 pages
The Microscopical Tradition
entry |33 pages
The Physiological Tradition
entry |16 pages
The Biochemical Tradition
entry |23 pages
The Pathological Tradition
entry |13 pages
The Immunological Tradition
entry |25 pages
Clinical Research
letter |370 pages
Theories of Life, Health, and Disease
entry |16 pages
The Concepts of Health, Illness, and Disease
entry |32 pages
Ideas of Life and Death
entry |11 pages
Humoralism
entry |17 pages
Environment and Miasmata
entry |26 pages
Contagion/Germ Theory/Specificity
entry |22 pages
Nosology
entry |25 pages
The Ecology of Disease
entry |30 pages
Fevers
entry |26 pages
Constitutional and Hereditary Disorders
entry |26 pages
Mental Diseases
entry |20 pages
Nutritional Diseases
entry |28 pages
Endocrine Diseases
entry |25 pages
Tropical Diseases
entry |25 pages
Cancer
entry |23 pages
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
entry |16 pages
Diseases of Civilization
letter |178 pages
Understanding Disease
entry |31 pages
Unorthodox Medical Theories
entry |27 pages
Non-Western Concepts of Disease
entry |15 pages
Folk Medicine
entry |52 pages
Arab-Islamic Medicine
entry |27 pages
Chinese Medicine
entry |24 pages
Indian Medicine
letter |335 pages
Clinical Medicine
entry |18 pages
The History of the Doctor–Patient Relationship
entry |25 pages
The Art of Diagnosis: Medicine and the Five Senses
entry |26 pages
The Science of Diagnosis: Diagnostic Technology
entry |36 pages
The History of Medical Ethics
entry |27 pages
Women and Medicine
entry |24 pages
Drug Therapies
entry |22 pages
Physical Methods
entry |23 pages
Surgery (Traditional)
entry |45 pages
Surgery (Modern)
entry |21 pages
Psychotherapy
entry |22 pages
Childbirth
entry |20 pages
Childhood
entry |24 pages
Geriatrics
letter |274 pages
Medicine in Society
entry |32 pages
The History of the Medical Profession
entry |29 pages
Medical Education
entry |24 pages
The Hospital
entry |27 pages
Medical Institutions and the State
entry |31 pages
Public Health
entry |21 pages
Epidemiology
entry |26 pages
The History of Personal Hygiene
entry |20 pages
A General History of Nursing: 1800–1900
entry |21 pages
The Emergence of Para-Medical Professions
entry |23 pages
Psychiatry
entry |18 pages
Health Economics: Finance, Budgeting, and Insurance
letter |321 pages
Medicine, Ideas, and Culture
entry |24 pages
Medicine and Colonialism
entry |19 pages
Internationalism in Medicine and Public Health
entry |13 pages
Medicine and Anthropology
entry |20 pages
Religion and Medicine
entry |11 pages
Charity Before c.1850
entry |15 pages
Medical Philanthropy After 1850
entry |25 pages
Medicine and Architecture
entry |16 pages
Medicine and Literature
entry |38 pages
War and Modern Medicine
entry |18 pages
Pain and Suffering
entry |27 pages
Medical Technologies: Social Contexts and Consequences
entry |22 pages
Medicine and the Law
entry |22 pages
Medical Sociology
entry |30 pages
Demography and Medicine
entry |19 pages
Medicine, Mortality, and Morbidity
