基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1997. Covering all periods from Ancient Greece to the present day, this richly illustrated history of medicine offers a helpful glossary, a chronology, and a full index and fascinating introduction to medicine in the west.
Full Description
Covering all periods from Ancient Greece to the beginning of the 21st century, this illustrated history of medicine offers information and insight on a wide variety of topics. The great milestones of medical history - among them the discovery of the circulation of the blood, vaccination against smallpox, the invention of the X-ray, the development of penicillin - are charted. They are set against the social context of medicine, with accounts of more neglected areas such as patterns of epidemics, the emergence of the medical profession, the history of nursing, unorthodox medical practice, the spread of western medicine beyond Europe and the US, and the patient's viewpoint.
Contents
I From the hippocratic corpus to twentieth-century medicine: Martin Kemp, Medicine in View - Art and Visual Representation; James Longrigg, Medicine in the Classical World; Emilie Savage-Smith, Europe and Islam; Michael McVaugh, Medicine in the Middle Ages c.500-1350; Katherine Park, Medicine and the Renaissance; Harold Cook, From the Scientific Revolution to Germ Theory; E.M. Tansey, From Germ Theory to 1945; Stephen Lock, From 1950 to the Present. II Medicine in context: Lisa Rosner, The Growth of Medical Education and the Medical Profession; Ulrich Trohler, Cay-Rudiger Prull, The Rise of the Modern Hospital; Mary Dobson, Epidemics and the Geography of Disease; Anne Summers, Nurses and Ancilliaries in the Christian Era; Irvine Loudon, Childbirth; J.A. Walker-Smith, Children in Hospital 1850-1990; Michael Neve, Medicine and the Mind; Michael Worboys, The Spread of Western Medicine; Margaret Pelling, Unofficial and Unorthodox Medicine; Jane Lewis, Medicine, Politics, and the State; Anne Digby, The Patient's View.
