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Title:
A short history of medicine / Erwin H. Ackerknecht ; foreword and concluding essay by Charles E. Rosenberg ; bibliographic essay by Lisa Haushofer.
Author:
Ackerknecht, Erwin H. (Erwin Heinz), 1906-1988, author.
Publication Information:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
Call Number:
R131 .A18 2016
Edition:
Revised and expanded edition.
ISBN:
9781421419541
Physical Description:
xxiii, 247 pages : illustrations, portraits
Contents:
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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