| Description |
xx, 459 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [437]-450) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: a human dimension to the history of medicine -- Pt I. Compass of Western medicine -- Biology and medicine / Charles Darwin -- Scope of modern medicine: cellular and social / Rudolf Virchow -- Medicine and modern experimental physiology / Claude Bernard -- Germ theory of disease: microbiology / Louis Pasteur -- Foundations of bacteriology / Robert Koch -- Rational medicine / Hippocrates -- Western medical tradition / Galen -- Pt. II. Prinicpal transformations -- Fabrica and the new anatomy / Andreas Vesalius -- Circulation of the blood / William Harvey -- New tradition in medicine / Paracelsus -- "His anatomical majesty" / Giovanni Morgagni -- Doctrine of tissues / Xavier Bichat -- Physician's new gaze / René Laennec -- Rise of German medicine / Johannes Müller -- "Science in the making" / François Magendie -- Numerical method / Pierre Louis -- "Integrated approach" to physiology / Carl Ludwig -- Anatomy, histology, physiology, and pathology / Jacob Henle -- Modern nursing / Florence Nightingale -- Antisepsis and modern surgery / Joseph Lister -- Discovery of X rays / Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen -- Chromosomes / Theodor Boveri -- Discovering the neurons / Santiago Ramón y Cajal -- "Transforming principle": DNA / Oswald Avery -- Pt. III. Figures of constant reference -- Rise of surgery / Ambroise Paré -- Occupational diseases and environmental hazards / Bernardino Ramazzini -- Poem about syphilis, a theory of contagion / Girolamo Francastoro -- "English Hippocrates" / Thomas Sydenham -- Medicine in the eighteenth century / Hermann Boerhaave -- Beginnings of scientific medicine and surgery / John Hunter -- Founder of modern dentistry / Pierre Fauchard -- Treating the insane / Philippe Pinel -- Vaccination against smallpox / Edward Jenner -- Demonstration of anesthesia / William Thomas Green Morton -- Field epidemiology begins at the Broad Street pump / John Snow -- Tragic insight into childbed fever / Ignaz Semmelweis -- Surgery comes of age / Theodor Billroth -- Rise, decline, and persistence of psychoanalysis / Sigmund Freud |
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Physicians -- Biography.
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Medical scientists -- Biography.
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Medicine -- History.
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Physicians -- Biography.
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History of Medicine.
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| ISBN |
0618152768 |
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