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Sources in the history of medicine : the impact of disease and trauma /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Anderson, Robin L. (Robin Leslie)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, [2007]
Subjects:
Medicine > History.
Diseases > History.
Diseases and history.
History of Medicine.
Communicable Diseases > history.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Paleopathology and primitive medicine
  • The Middle East in antiquity
  • China and India in antiquity
  • Greece
  • Rome and Byzantium
  • Europe, 500-1500
  • Medicine in the Muslim world and the Americas, 700-1500
  • The Renaissance and the scientific revolution: technical and theoretical change
  • Europe, 1500-1800: health, disease, trauma, and society
  • The nineteenth century: the development and spread of Western medicine
  • The nineteenth century: change and upheaval
  • The twentieth century: advances and challenges
  • The twentieth century: new enemies, old nemeses
  • A brave new century: dilemmas in twenty-first-century medicine.