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Loudon, Irvine (ed.), Western Medicine: An Illustrated History, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997, xvi + 347 + [24] pp., il·l.
- Resum
- From ancient religious rituals and magical incantations, to Renaissance practices such as purging, bleeding, and trepanning, to modern day miracles such as antibiotics, CAT scans, and organ transplants, the advance of Western medicine has been nothing short of astonishing. This richly illustrated volume provides a wide-ranging history of Western medicine, charting the great milestones of medical progress--from the birth of rational medicine in the classical world right up to the present day. The history begins in ancient Greece, where medical practice, under the auspices of Hippocrates and others, first looked past supernatural explanations and began to understand disease as a product of natural causes. It chronicles the slow growth of medical knowledge through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, illuminating the work of figures such as Paracelsus, Vesalius, and William Harvey (who explained how blood circulates through the body). And it provides portraits of more modern figures like Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch (the fathers of bacteriology), Wilhelm Roentgen (the discoverer of x-rays), and Paul Ehrlich (who pioneered the use of chemicals to destroy disease-causing organisms). Authoritative, informative, and beautifully designed, this volume offers a truly fascinating introduction to medicine in the West. -- Irvine Loudon was formerly a General Practitioner and a Research Fellow of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford.
Contents:
* List of Colour Illustrations - List of Contributors
-- I. FROM THE HIPPOCRATIC CORPUS TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY MEDICINE
* 1. Medicine in View: Art and Visual Representation / Martin Kemp
* 2. Medicine in the Classical World / James Longrigg
* 3. Europe and Islam / Emilie Savage-Smith
* 4. Medicine in the Middle Ages c. 500-1350 / Michael McVaugh
* 5. Medicine and the Renaissance / Katharine Park
* 6. From the Scientific Revolution to Germ Theory / Harold Cook
* 7. From Germ Theory to 1945 / E. M. Tansey
* 8. From 1950 to the Present / Stephen Lock
-- II. MEDICINE IN CONTEXT
* 9. The Growth of Medical Education and the Medical Profession / Lisa Rosner
* 10. The Rise of the Modern Hospital / Ulrich Trohler & Cay-Rudiger Prull
* 11. Epidemics and the Geography of Disease / Mary Dobson
* 12. Nurses and Ancilliaries in the Christian Era / Anne Summers
* 13. Childbirth / Irvine Loudon
* 14. Children in Hospital, 1850-1990 / J. A. Walker-Smith
* 15. Medicine and the Mind / Michael Neve
* 16. The Spread of Western Medicine / Michael Worboys
* 17. Unofficial and Unorthodox Medicine / Margaret Pelling
* 18. Medicine, Politics, and the State / Jane Lewis
* 19. The Patient's View / Anne Digby
* Glossary - Chronology - Index
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Història de l'art
Il·lustracions
- Notes
- Reimpr.: 2001.
Altres títols: Oxford illustrated history of western medicine; The Oxford illustrated history of medicine.
- URL
- https://books.google.es/books?id=dJEWZq0bq8kC&lpg=P ...
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