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The Cambridge History of Medicine

  • Date Published: August 2006
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  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521682893

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  • The Cambridge History of Medicine, first published in 2006, surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events, while at the same time engaging with the issues, discoveries, and controversies that have beset and characterized medical progress. The authors weave a narrative that connects disease, doctors, primary care, surgery, the rise of hospitals, drug treatment and pharmacology, mental illness and psychiatry. This volume emphasizes the crucial developments of the past 150 years, but also examines classical, medieval, and Islamic and East Asian medicine. Authoritative and accessible, The Cambridge History of Medicine is for readers wanting a lively and informative introduction to medical history.

    • First published as the Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine (1996)
    • Includes an updated bibliography and a new addendum on the future of medicine, written by Geoff Watts, the host of the BBC program 'Leading Edge'
    • Authoritative and accessible introduction to medical history
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    • Date Published: August 2006
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521682893
    • length: 416 pages
    • dimensions: 216 x 140 x 28 mm
    • weight: 0.54kg
    • availability: Available

  • Table of Contents

    Introduction Roy Porter
    1. The history of disease Kenneth F. Kiple
    2. The rise of medicine Vivian Nutton
    3. What is disease? Roy Porter
    4. Primary care Edward Shorter
    5. Medical science Roy Porter
    6. Hospitals and surgery Roy Porter
    7. Drug treatment and the rise in pharmacology Miles Weatherall
    8. Mental illness Roy Porter
    9. Medicine, society, and the state John Pickston
    10. Looking to the future (1995) Geoff Watts
    Addendum: looking to the future revisited Geoff Watts.

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    Roy Porter
    Roy Porter (1946–2002), Professor Emeritus of the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Trust Center for the History of Medicine at University College London, was the author of over 200 books and articles, including Doctor of Society: Thomas Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late Enlightenment England (1991), London: A Social History (1994), The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (1997), and Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650–1900 (2001).

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