The Story of Medicine: From Bloodletting to Biotechnology - Hardcover

Dobson, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1623650585 ISBN 13: 9781623650582

Verlag: Quercus, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Physical description; 239 pages: illustrations (some color); 29 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (page 235) and index. Contents; Concepts and theories of disease -- Bad blood and bad airs -- Bones and bodies -- Germs and genes -- Practitioners and patients -- Physicians and healers -- Hospitals and nursing care -- Barbers and surgeons -- Tooth-drawers and dentists -- Treatments and therapies -- Bloodletting and purging -- Opium, morphine, and heroin -- Pharmacy and patent medicines -- Complementary and alternative medicine -- Modern medicines and vaccines -- New drugs from old remedies -- Magic bullets and blockbuster drugs -- Testing treatments and clinical trials -- Vaccination and preventive medicine. Subject; Medicine - History.

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PRAISE FOR MARY DOBSON'S "DISEASE"
"An amazing book...written in clear and concise chapters and free of scientific jargon." ""Western Daily Press"""

PRAISE FOR MARY DOBSON'S DISEASE
"An amazing book...written in clear and concise chapters and free of scientific jargon."--Western Daily Press

Reseña del editor:

In The Story of Medicine, esteemed medical historian and author Mary Dobson charts the ways in which we have fought with disease and injury over several millennia--from the â??humors' of Hippocrates to Edward Jenner and the eradication of smallpox; from Florence Nightingale's nursing reforms to Crick and Watson's DNA chain.

Beautifully realized with paintings, illustrations and photographs, this volume is filled with the trauma as well as the triumph of medical science: including the pain of the surgeon's knife in the centuries before anesthetics, the body-snatchers of the nineteenth century, and the realities of battlefield surgery. Moving and revealing, here is a fascinating study of the glorious--and sometimes dangerous--pursuit of medical science.

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• Verlag: Quercus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1623650585
• ISBN 13: 9781623650582
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 239