The History of Medicine is an amiable amble through medicine's past, designed as a primer for those taking history of medicine modules as part of their studies and for the wider public seeking a relaxed yet informative read.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• I The Ages of Antiquity and Darkness
• 1 The Age of Ice and Caves
• 2 The Age of Antiquity (I)
• 3 The Age of Antiquity (II)
• 4 The Age of Darkness and Death
• II The Ages of ‘Early Modern’ Medicine
• 5 The Age of Anatomy
• 6 The Age of Blood, Bodies and Battles
• 7 The Age of Science
• 8 The Age of Expansion in Medicine and Surgery
• III The Ages Between ‘Early Modern’ and Modern Medicine: Nineteenth-Century Medicine
• 9 The Age of Hospitals and Physicians
• 10 The Age of Antiseptics and Anaesthetics
• 11 The Age of ‘Madness’, Military Morbidity and Macabre Mortality
• 12 The Age of Medical Women
• IV The Ages of Modern Medicine: Twentieth-Century Medicine
• 13 The Age of Pharmaceuticals
• 14 The Age of Social Medicine and Diversification
• 15 The Age of ‘Modern’ Modern Medicine
• 16 The Age of Today
• Postscript
• 100 Ideas
• Meet the Author
• Acknowledgements