A short history of medicine

Author(s)

    • Ackerknecht, Erwin H. (Erwin Heinz)

Bibliographic Information

A short history of medicine

Erwin H. Ackerknecht ; foreword and concluding essay by Charles E. Rosenberg ; bibliographic essay by Lisa Haushofer

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016

Revised and expanded ed

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • 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

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