The Cambridge illustrated history of medicine / edited by Roy Porter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.

Series:

Cambridge illustrated history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--History.

Medicine.

History.

History of Medicine.

Medical Subjects:

History of Medicine.

Physical Description:

400 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cm.

Other Title:

Medicine

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1996]

Summary:

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine examines, through popular and professional perception, the history and interrelation of disease, health and medicine over more than two thousands years. Readers can trace the chronological story of key developments and events in medical history from antiquity onwards, while at the same time engaging with the issues, discoveries and controversies that have beset and characterized medical progress. The book weaves a connective narrative that gives equal weight to disease and to doctors, to scientific medicine and to society, to patients and to practitioners. An important feature of the volume its rich and extensive coverage of the past hundred and fifty years - a critical era in the development of medicine. Particular emphasis is placed throughout The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine on the complex functions that medicine has fulfilled in society, and on the shifting and often ambiguous meanings of sickness. It puts into historical context modern developments and anxieties: the patient-doctor relationship, the nature of medical and clinic advances, and how health care is administered. Ranging from the Hippocratic Oath to present-day medical ethics, from leeches to laser surgery, this book offers a definitive guide to its subject, supplemented by valuable reference material on Nobel Prize winners, the spread of selected diseases, and medical personalities. There is a chronology of events and a table of the major infectious diseases.

Contents:

1 The history of disease / Kenneth F. Kiple 16

2 The rise of medicine / Vivian Nutton 52

3 What is disease? / Roy Porter 82

4 Primary care / Edward Shorter 118

5 Medical science / Roy Porter 154

6 Hospitals and surgery / Roy Porter 202

7 Drug treatment and the rise in pharmacology / Miles Weatherall 246

8 Mental illness / Roy Porter 278

9 Medicine, society, and the state / John Pickstone 304

10 Looking to the future / Geoff Watts 342

Major human diseases 378.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-386) and indexes.

ISBN:

0521442117

OCLC:

33046171