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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Erwin H. Ackerknecht , Charles E. Rosenberg (Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences, Harvard University)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Edition: revised and expanded edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.386kg ISBN: 9781421419541ISBN 10: 1421419548 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 26 June 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Charles E. Rosenberg Preface, 1982 Edition Preface to the First Edition Why Medical History? Paleopathology and Paleomedicine Primitive Medicine Medicine of Ancient Civilizations Ancient India and China Greek Medicine Greek Medicine Greek Medicine Medieval Medicine Renaissance Medicine Medicine in the Seventeenth Century Medicine in the Eigh teenth Century The Clinical Schools of the First Half of the Nineteenth Century The Basic Sciences during the Nineteenth Century Clinical Medicine of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century Microbiology Surgery and Gynecology in the Nineteenth Century The New Specialism of the Nineteenth Century Public Health and Professional Developments in the Nineteenth Century Medicine in the United States Prior to 1900 Epilogue Concluding Essay. Erwin H. Ackerknecht, Social Medicine, and the History of Medicine Bibliographic Essay by Lisa Haushofer IndexReviews...A Short History of Medicine is a useful resource for those interested in studying Western medicine. Metapsychology Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers and faculty; professionals and practitioners. Choice ...A Short History of Medicine is a useful resource for those interested in studying Western medicine. Metapsychology Author InformationErwin H. Ackerknecht (1906-1988), a professor of the history of medicine at the University of Zurich from 1957 to 1971 and one of the world's most distinguished medical historians, was the author of Short History of Psychiatry and Medicine at the Paris Hospital, 1794-1848. Charles E. Rosenberg is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences and professor of the history of science emeritus at Harvard University. He is the author of Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now and The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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