ABSTRACT

Designed for survey courses in the field A History of Medicine presents a wide-ranging overview for those seeking a solid grounding in the medical history of Western and non-Western cultures. Invaluable to instructors promoting the history of medicine in pre-professional training, and stressing major themes in the history of medicine, this third edition continues to stimulate further exploration of the events, methodologies, and theories that have shaped medical practices in decades past and continue to do so today.

chapter 1|20 pages

Paleopathology and paleomedicine

chapter 3|26 pages

The medical traditions of India and China

chapter 4|26 pages

Greco-Roman medicine

chapter 5|30 pages

The Middle Ages

chapter 7|20 pages

New world cultures and civilizations

chapter 8|30 pages

The Americanization of Old World medicine

chapter 9|30 pages

The medical counterculture

chapter 11|36 pages

The art and science of surgery

chapter 12|38 pages

Medical microbiology

chapter 13|36 pages

Diagnostics and therapeutics

chapter 15|6 pages

Epilogue