The foundations for the scientific study of the body and modern Western medicine as we know it started with William Harvey's discovery of the circulatory system in the early 17th century. But its roots stretch back as far as ancient Greece, when medicine first departed from the divine and the mystical and moved toward observation and logic. Its early development was slow, constrained by the taboo around dissection (only external symptoms could be used for diagnosis), as well as superstition and mysticism (illness was the work of demons and pixies and curable only by penitence). Paul Strathern steers us skillfully through the maze of discoveries, diseases, and wrong turns that have made medicine what it is todaysuper efficient, high tech, and increasingly costly. A Brief History of Medicine offers an accessible history of the arguments, missteps, and dumb luck that led to the world's most important medical breakthroughsfrom anatomy, grave robbing, the plague, and germ theory to vaccination, quackery, microorganisms, and penicillin.
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Publisher
Avalon Publishing Group
ISBN-13
9780786715251
eBay Product ID (ePID)
107015421
Product Key Features
Author
Paul Strathern
Publication Name
A Brief History of Medicine: from Hippocrates' Four Humours to Crick and Watson's Double Helix
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Healthcare System
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
204mm
Item Width
140mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Paul Strathern
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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