The Western medical tradition : 800 B.C.-1800 A.D. / members of the Academic Unit, the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London: Lawrence I. Conrad [and others].

Other author Conrad, Lawrence I., 1949-
Other author Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
Format Book
Edition10th printing.
Publication InfoCambridge, Eng. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1995.
Descriptionxiv, 556 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Medicine--History.
History of Medicine.

Contents Medicine in the Greek world, 800-50 BC / Vivian Nutton -- Roman medicine, 250 BC to AD 200 / Vivian Nutton -- Medicine in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages / Vivian Nutton -- The Arab-Islamic medical tradition / Lawrence I. Conrad -- Medicine in Medieval Western Europe, 1000-1500 / Vivian Nutton -- Medicine in early modern Europe, 1500-1700 / Andrew Wear -- The eighteenth century / Roy Porter -- Conclusion / Michael Neve.
Review "Written by members of the Academic Unit of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, the world's leading centre for the history of medicine, this book surveys the Western medical tradition in all its aspects from the Greeks until 1800 AD, and in its transformations and transplantations into the world of Islam and the Americas. As well as describing the diseases, medical theories, and medical therapies of the past, it places them in a wide social context, and discusses religious and alternative healing as well as major advances in medicine, surgery. and pharmacology. It includes the accounts of patients as well as of their healers, the pains of childbirth and the preparations for death. Although major figures are covered in detail, this is not a history of great men and great moments in medicine, but an attempt to understand the limitations as well as the triumphs of medicine in pre-modern society. The very latest findings of medical historians are here presented in a lively form accessible to all who are interested in the formation of modern ideas on health and healing. The book provides essential reading as a new synthesis for all students of the history of medicine."--Jacket.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 495-517) and index.

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