The Western medical tradition : 800 B.C.-1800 A.D.

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Label

The Western medical tradition : 800 B.C.-1800 A.D.

Title remainder

800 B.C.-1800 A.D.

Statement of responsibility

by members of the Academic Unit, the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London: Lawrence Conrad [and others]

Contributor

• Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
• Conrad, Lawrence I., 1949-

Subject

• History
• History of Medicine
• Medicine -- History

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"Written by members of the Academic Unit of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, the world's leading centre for the history of medicine, this book surveys the Western medical tradition in all its aspects from the Greeks until 1800 AD, and in its transformations and transplantations into the world of Islam and the Americas. As well as describing the diseases, medical theories, and medical therapies of the past, it places them in a wide social context, and discusses religious and alternative healing as well as major advances in medicine, surgery. and pharmacology. It includes the accounts of patients as well as of their healers, the pains of childbirth and the preparations for death. Although major figures are covered in detail, this is not a history of great men and great moments in medicine, but an attempt to understand the limitations as well as the triumphs of medicine in pre-modern society. The very latest findings of medical historians are here presented in a lively form accessible to all who are interested in the formation of modern ideas on health and healing. The book provides essential reading as a new synthesis for all students of the history of medicine."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

610/.94

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

R131

LC item number

.W47 1995

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

WZ 51

NLM item number

W527 1995