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A brief history of disease, science, and medicine : from the Ice Age to the Genome Project /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kennedy, Michael, 1938-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cranston, R.I. : Writers' Collective, [2004]
Subjects:
History of Medicine.
Science > history.
Table of Contents:
  • In the beginning
  • The beginning of history
  • Classical Greece and Rome
  • India and China
  • The rise of Islam and Arabic medicine
  • The Middle Ages
  • The beginning of modern science
  • The enlightenment and medicine
  • The century of the surgeon
  • The Germans
  • Medicine, bacteriology and infectious diseases
  • The rise of medicine
  • The new science
  • The development of modern surgery
  • Blood
  • The structure of DNA
  • Fleming, Florey and penicillin
  • Twentieth century medicine
  • Cardiac surgery
  • Critical care medicine and anesthesia
  • Transplantation
  • Psychiatry
  • The economics of medicine
  • Postscript