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Companion encyclopedia of the history of medicine / edited by W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Bynum, W. F. (William F.), 1943-
Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.
Taylor & Francis eBooks
Series:
Routledge reference
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Medicine--History--Encyclopedias.
Medicine.
Medicine--History.
History of Medicine.
Medical Subjects:
History of Medicine.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations
Place of Publication:
London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
Contents:
v. 1. Art and science of medicine
Place of medicine
What is specific to Western medicine
Historiography of medicine
Medical care
Body systems
Anatomical tradition
Microscopical tradition
Physiological tradition
Biochemical tradition
Pathological tradition
Immunological tradition
Clinical research
Theories of life, health and disease
Concepts of health, illness and disease
Ideas of life and death
Humoralism
Environment and miasmata
Contagion/germ theory/specificity
Nosology
Ecology of disease
Fevers
Constitutional and hereditary disorders
Mental diseases
Nutritional diseases
Endocrine diseases
Tropical diseases
Cancer
Sexually transmitted diseases
Diseases of civilization
Understanding disease
Unorthodox medical theories
Non-western concepts of disease
Folk medicine
Arab-Islamic medicine
Chinese medicine
Indian medicine
v. 2. Clinical medicine
History of the doctor-patient relationship
Art of diagnosis: medicine and the five senses.
(cont) Science of diagnosis: diagnostic technology
History of medical ethics
Women and medicine
Drug therapies
Physical methods
Surgery (traditional)
Surgery (modern)
Psychotherapy
Childbirth
Childhood
Geriatrics
Medicine in society
History of the medical profession
medical education
Hospital
Medical institutions and the state
Public health
Epidemiology
History of personal hygiene
General history of nursing: 1800-1900
Emergence of para-medical professions
Psychiatry
Health economics: finance, budgeting and insurance
Medicine, ideas and culture
Medicine and colonialism
Internationalism in medicine and public health
Medicine and anthropology
Religion and medicine
Charity before c.1850
Medical philanthropy after 1850
Medicine and architecture
Medicine and literature
War and modern medicine
Pain and suffering
Medical technologies: social contexts and consequences
Medicine and the law
Medical sociology
Demography and medicine
Medicine, mortality and morbidity.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
Print version record.
Other Format:
Print version: Companion encyclopedia of the history of medicine.
ISBN:
9781315002514
1315002515
9781136110368
1136110364
9781136110443
1136110445
9781136110528
1136110526
Publisher Number:
90101501674
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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