All That Matters: History of Medicine
All That Matters: History of Medicine
Editor/Author
Hall, Tim
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Single-User Purchase Price:
$14.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$21.00
ISBN: 978-1-44-418186-9
Category: Health & Medicine - Medicine
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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