Medicine and Western civilization

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Medicine and Western civilization

edited by David J. Rothman, Steven Marcus, and Stephanie A. Kiceluk

Rutgers University Press, c1995

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780813521893

Description

This fabulous anthology is sure to be a core text for history of medicine and social science classes in colleges across the country. In order to demonstrate how medical research has influenced Western cultural perspectives, the editors have collected original works from 61 different authors around nine major themes (among them "Anatomy and Destiny," "Psyche and Soma," and "The Construction of Pain, Suffering, and Death"). The authors range from Aristotle, the Bible, and Louis Pasteur, to Masters and Johnson, Ernest Hemingway, and Simone de Beauvoir. The primary sources selected to illustrate the themes are well chosen and contrast with each other nicely. However, the brief background material for the selections center around the authors and offer little or no discussion about the selections' relevance to the topics at hand. This book would be best read in a class or group where the texts' meaning in relation to each other can be discussed, but the book can stand alone if the reader is prepared to do some critical thinking.
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: pbk ISBN 9780813521909

Description

This fabulous anthology is sure to be a core text for history of medicine and social science classes in colleges across the country. In order to demonstrate how medical research has influenced Western cultural perspectives, the editors have collected original works from 61 different authors around nine major themes (among them "Anatomy and Destiny," "Psyche and Soma," and "The Construction of Pain, Suffering, and Death"). The authors range from Aristotle, the Bible, and Louis Pasteur, to Masters and Johnson, Ernest Hemingway, and Simone de Beauvoir. The primary sources selected to illustrate the themes are well chosen and contrast with each other nicely. However, the brief background material for the selections center around the authors and offer little or no discussion about the selections' relevance to the topics at hand. This book would be best read in a class or group where the texts' meaning in relation to each other can be discussed, but the book can stand alone if the reader is prepared to do some critical thinking.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1 The Human Form Divine Part 2 The Body Secularized Part 3 Anatomy and Destiny Part 4 Psyche and Soma Part 5 The Contaminated and the Pure Part 6 The Healer Part 7 The Experimenter Part 8 The Institutionalization of Doctors and Patients Part 9 The Construction of Pain, Suffering, and Death Index

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