Disease and Medicine in World History
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Disease and Medicine in World History

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Disease and Medicine in World History

About this book

Disease and Medicine in World History is a concise introduction to diverse ideas about diseases and their treatment throughout the world. Drawing on case studies from ancient Egypt to present-day America, Asia and Europe, this survey discusses concepts of sickness and forms of treatment in many cultures.

Sheldon Watts shows that many medical practices in the past were shaped as much by philosophers and metaphysicians as by university-trained doctors and other practitioners.

Subjects covered include:

  • Pharaonic Egypt and the pre-conquest New World
  • the evolution of medical systems in the Middle East
  • health and healing on the Indian subcontinent
  • medicine and disease in China
  • the globalization of disease in the modern world
  • the birth and evolution of modern scientific medicine.

This volume is a landmark contribution to the field of world history. It covers the principal medical systems known in the world, based on extensive original research. Watts raises questions about globalization in medicine and the potential impact of infectious diseases in the present day.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2005
Print ISBN
9780415278171
eBook ISBN
9781134470570
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
World History

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Chapter 1: Sickness And Health, A Global Concern
  7. Chapter 2: Before the advent of acute epidemic diseases. Pharaonic Egypt and the pre-conquest New World Extinct societies
  8. Chapter 3: Pluralism in ancient Greece
  9. Chapter 4: The evolution of medical systems in the Middle East c. 632 CE to modern times
  10. Chapter 5: Health and disease on the Indian subcontinent before 1869
  11. Chapter 6 Medicine and disease in China Concepts and practices from c . 1900 BCE to 1840 CE
  12. Chapter 7: The globalization of disease after 1450
  13. Chapter 8: Medicine and disease in the West, 1050–1840
  14. Chapter 9: The birth of modern scientific medicine The German lands contrasted with the United Kingdom and the British in India
  15. Chapter 10: Health and medicine in the world, 1940 to the present
  16. Bibliography