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Evolution of preventive medicine /
First published in 1927, this book provides a complete study of the beginnings and early development of preventive medicine. It looks at the subject's underlying principles and discusses the prominent writers of the past. Topics cover infection, plague, science and medicine, poverty and prevent...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Abingdon :
Routledge,
2015.
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| Colección: | Routledge revivals.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Introductory
- ch. 2. Theological and sacerdotal obsessions concerning
- ch. 3. The escape from and relapse into supernaturalism
- ch. 4. The beginning of emancipation
- ch. 5. Stages in and obstacles to progress
- ch. 6. The relation of science to medicine
- ch. 7. The slow subversion of authority and increment of science
- ch. 8. The growth of our knowledge of infection
- ch. 9. Epidemic constitutions and epidemiology
- ch. 10. Early struggles against plague
- ch. 11. Contagium vivum
- ch. 12. Sanitation and social improvement
- ch. 13. Progress in the eighteenth and early part of the nineteenth century
- ch. 14. Poverty and preventive medicine
- ch. 15. The prevention of "fever"
- ch. 16. The prevention of "fever" (continued)
- ch. 17. The prevention of cholera
- ch. 18. Disinfection in preventive medicine
- ch. 19. Immunization against infection
- ch. 20. The prevention of non-specific infection (Sepsis)
- ch. 21. Food and drink in relation to health
- ch. 22. Infantile hygiene
- ch. 23. Modern preventive medicine.