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A Short History of Medicine /

Erwin H. Ackerknecht?s A Short History of Medicine is a concise narrative, long appreciated by students in the history of medicine, medical students, historians, and medical professionals as well as all those seeking to understand the history of medicine. Covering the broad sweep of discoveries from...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ackerknecht, Erwin H. (Erwin Heinz), 1906-1988 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
Edición:Revised and expanded edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Paleopathology and paleomedicine
  • Primitive medicine
  • Medicine of ancient civilizations
  • Ancient India and China
  • Greek medicine : physicians, priests, philosophers
  • Greek medicine : Hippocratic medicine
  • Greek medicine : Alexandria and Rome
  • Medieval medicine
  • Renaissance medicine
  • Medicine in the seventeenth century
  • Medicine in the eighteenth 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 : trends in twentieth-century medicine.