ABSTRACT

Stressing major themes in the history of medicine, this Second Edition stimulates further exploration of the events, methodologies, and theories that shaped medical practices in decades past and in modern clinical practice-highlighting the practices of civilizations around the world, as well as the research of pioneering scientists and physicians w

chapter 1|24 pages

Paleopathology and Paleomedicine

chapter 3|36 pages

The Medical Traditions of India and China

chapter 4|46 pages

Greco-Roman Medicine

chapter 5|62 pages

The Middle Ages

chapter 8|36 pages

The Americanization of Old World Medicine

chapter 9|48 pages

Clinical and Preventive Medicine

chapter 11|42 pages

Women and Medicine

chapter 12|34 pages

The Art and Science of Surgery

chapter 14|50 pages

Diagnostics and Therapeutics