A short history of medicine / Erwin H. Ackerknecht ; foreword and concluding essay by Charles E. Rosenberg ; bibliographic essay by Lisa Haushofer
By: Ackerknecht, Erwin H. (Erwin Heinz) [author].
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016Edition: Revised and expanded edition.Description: xxiii, 247 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781421419541.Subject(s): History of Medicine | Medicine -- HistoryGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 610.9Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | R131 .A34 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000005851 |
Includes bibliographical references and index
Paleopathology and paleomedicine -- Primitive medicine -- Medicine of ancient civilizations -- Ancient India and China -- Greek medicine : physicians, priests, philosophers -- Greek medicine : Hippocratic medicine -- Greek medicine : Alexandria and Rome -- Medieval medicine -- Renaissance medicine -- Medicine in the seventeenth century -- Medicine in the eighteenth century -- The clinical schools of the first half of the nineteenth century -- The basic sciences during the nineteenth century -- Clinical medicine of the second half of the nineteenth century -- Microbiology -- Surgery and gynecology in the nineteenth century -- The new specialism of the nineteenth century -- Public health and professional developments in the nineteenth century -- Medicine in the United States prior to 1900 -- Epilogue : trends in twentieth-century medicine