A brief history of disease, science, and medicine : from the Ice Age to the Genome Project / by Michael Kennedy.
By: Kennedy, Michael.
Cranston, R.I. : Writers' Collective, c2004Description: vii, 510 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780974946658 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Diseases -- History | Medicine -- History | Science -- History | History of Medicine | Science -- historyGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 610/.9 Online resources: Table of contents| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | R131 .K44 2004 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000002611 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In the beginning -- The beginning of history -- Classical Greece and Rome -- India and China -- The rise of Islam and Arabic medicine -- The Middle Ages -- The beginning of modern science -- The Enlightenment and medicine -- The century of the surgeon -- The Germans -- Medicine, bacteriology and infectious diseases -- The rise of medicine -- The new science -- The development of modern surgery -- Blood -- The structure of DNA -- Fleming, Florey and penicillin -- Twentieth century medicine -- Cardiac surgery -- Critical care medicine and anesthesia -- Transplantation -- Psychiatry -- The economics of medicine -- Postscript.