Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-217) and index.
Contents
Disease and pestilence -- Pharmacy: an ancient art -- Ancient healers -- Alternative and complementary medicine -- Middle ages -- The renaissance -- Britain 1600s -- Hospitals-- Some men of note -- Nineteenth-Century Pioneers -- Exploring the mind -- Genetics -- Modern surgical techniques -- Modern diagnostic techniques -- International red cross -- Women: their role as doctors -- Drugs in sport -- High-altitude medicine aviation medicine -- Paramedical service -- Lifestyle disease -- Insurance -- Nobel prize winners -- Countries: brief selection of events.
Summary
Chronicles medical history, from the primitive practices of antiquity to the discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the technological innovations of the modern era, with a selection of entries on famous people, institutions, and diseases.
