The Role of Medicine: Dream, Mirage Or Nemesis?

acute airborne diseases antibiotics approach assessment associated attributable behaviour bronchitis cancer cause of death cent Chapter chemotherapy clinical common diseases conclusion congenital contribution death-rate decline of mortality determinants of health determined at fertilization developing countries diphtheria doctors effective eighteenth century England and Wales environment environmental influences essentially example exposure fall of mortality fever food-borne diseases genes genetic health problems health services hospitals hygiene illness immunization and therapy important improvement in health increase infanticide infections infectious diseases irreversibly at fertilization mainly malnutrition measles medical education medical intervention medical measures mental micro-organisms modified natural selection number of deaths nutrition particularly patients period pneumonia poliomyelitis population possible post-natal pregnancy prenatal prevention puerperal fever reduction of deaths reduction of mortality relation respiratory tuberculosis resulted scarlet fever smallpox stillbirths streptomycin suggested sulphonamides syphilis tion trend of mortality tuberculosis twentieth century typhus vaccination whooping cough