A History of Medicine
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A History of Medicine

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  2. English
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A History of Medicine

About this book

Originally published in 1941, A History of Medicine provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to the advancement of medicine, from Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Babylonia, all the way up to the 20th century. The book looks at the close relationship between the progress of medicine and its advancement of civilization, it covers the development of medicine from, old magical rites, religious creeds, classical Hippocratism and revolutionary discoveries, while looking at the associated economic, intellectual, and political conditions of life in different nations, during different times. The book provides an essential and detailed look at the rich history of medicine and how it has impacted society.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9780367029760
eBook ISBN
9780429670923
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Book by the same author
  6. Original Title Page
  7. Original Copyright Page
  8. Dedication
  9. Preface to Second Edition
  10. Author’s Preface
  11. Editor’s Preface
  12. Contents
  13. I. Medical Thought in Its Historical Evolution
  14. II. The Origin of Medicine in Prehistory and in Primitive Peoples. Empiric, Demonistic, Animistic, Magic Medicine
  15. III. Mesopotamian Medicine. Magic and Priestly Medicine
  16. IV. Old Egyptian Medicine. Priestly Medicine, Origins of the Philosophic Concept
  17. V. The Medicine of the People of Israel. Theurgic Medicine. Canonical Codifications of Sanitary Laws
  18. VI. The Medicine of Ancient Persia and India. Systematic Theories
  19. VII. Far Eastern Medicine. Systems of Scholastic Medicine
  20. VIII. The Medicine of Ancient Greece. The Temples and Cult of Æsculapius — The Greco-Italian Schools — The Dawn of Scientific Medicine
  21. IX. The Golden Age of Greek Medicine. Hippocratic Medicine — A Biologic and Synthetic Concept
  22. X. Post-Hippocratic Medicine. The Alexandrian School. Beginnings of Anatomical and Physiological Studies
  23. XI. Roman Medicine. The Latin Concept of Medicine and Sanitary Legislation
  24. XII. The Decadence of Medical Science. Christian Dogmatic Medicine. The Byzantine School
  25. XIII. Arabian Medicine. Lay Medicine. Renaissance of Classic Doctrines
  26. XIV. Medicine in the Christian West during the First Centuries of the Middle Ages. From Monastic Medicine to the Lay Medicine of Salerno
  27. XV. Medicine in the Later Middle Ages. The Universities and Humanism. The Precursors of the Renaissance
  28. XVI. The Renaissance. The Revival of Anatomy and Physiology. Biological and Clinical Trends
  29. XVII. The Seventeenth Century. Dawn of Scientific Liberty. Biological and Experimental Trends in Medicine
  30. XVIII. The Eighteenth Century. From Speculative Systems to Pathological and Clinical Concepts
  31. XIX. First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Experimental and Biological Concepts. The Cell Doctrine
  32. XX. The Second Half of the Nineteenth Century. Clinical Medicine Based on the Fundamental Sciences. Growth of the Specialties
  33. XXI. The Twentieth Century
  34. Bibliography
  35. Index of Subjects
  36. Index of Persons