Western Medicine: An Illustrated HistoryIrvine Loudon Oxford University Press, 1997 - 347 sayfa From ancient religious rituals and magical incantations, to Renaissance practices such as purging, bleeding, and trepanning, to modern day miracles such as antibiotics, CAT scans, and organ transplants, the advance of Western medicine has been nothing short of astonishing. This richly illustrated volume provides a wide-ranging history of Western medicine, charting the great milestones of medical progress--from the birth of rational medicine in the classical world right up to the present day. The history begins in ancient Greece, where medical practice, under the auspices of Hippocrates and others, first looked past supernatural explanations and began to understand disease as a product of natural causes. It chronicles the slow growth of medical knowledge through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, illuminating the work of figures such as Paracelsus, Vesalius, and William Harvey (who explained how blood circulates through the body). And it provides portraits of more modern figures like Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch (the fathers of bacteriology), Wilhelm Roentgen (the discoverer of x-rays), and Paul Ehrlich (who pioneered the use of chemicals to destroy disease-causing organisms). Authoritative, informative, and beautifully designed, this volume offers a truly fascinating introduction to medicine in the West. |
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Medicine in View Art and Visual Representation | 1 |
Medicine in the Classical World | 25 |
Europe and Islam | 40 |
Medicine in the Latin Middle Ages | 54 |
Medicine and the Renaissance | 66 |
From the Scientific Revolution to the Germ Theory | 80 |
From the Germ Theory to 1945 | 102 |
Medicine in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century | 123 |
Children in Hospital | 221 |
Medicine and the Mind | 232 |
The Spread of Western Medicine | 249 |
Unofficial and Unorthodox Medicine | 264 |
Medicine Politics and the State | 277 |
The Patients View | 291 |
Further Reading | 307 |
Chronology | 316 |
The Growth of Medical Education and the Medical Profession | 147 |
The Rise of the Modern Hospital | 160 |
Epidemics and the Geography of Disease | 176 |
Nurses and Ancillaries in the Christian Era | 192 |
Childbirth | 206 |
Glossary | 324 |
Illustration Sources | 329 |
Index | 331 |
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