Research Catalog

Title

History of medicine : with commentaries / Robert Richardson, Hilary S. Morris.

Author

Richardson, Robert G.

Publication

Shrewsbury, England : Quiller, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Morris, Hilary S.

Description

278 p. : maps; 21 cm.

Summary

History of Medicine is designed to present the history of medicine in an accessible and readable manner. The narrative is an imaginative account of the progress of medical knowledge told in the form of the autobiography of a physician born some 2,700 years ago. The dialogue and descriptions of events are based on original sources. The commentaries place the events in the medical world and the world at large, and the timelines and maps ensure that the scenes are securely set in both time and space. The progress of medicine has been complex and far more than a list of names, dates, and achievements, and this book provides not just a series of isolated events, but a continuous history.

Subject

• History of Medicine
• Medicine > History

Genre/Form

• Popular Work
• History

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Medical beliefs in Mesopotamia (c.2700 BC) -- Medical practice in ancient Egypt (c.2700 BC) -- Origins of ancient Egyptian papyri (c.1500 BC) -- Mythology of the Eastern Mediterranean (c.1500 BC) -- Medical practice in Babylon (C.1500 BC) -- Greek medical mythology (c.1200 BC) -- Plague of Athens and teachings of Hippocrates (430-c.425 BC) -- Aristotle and Alexander of Macedon (370-321 BC) -- Anatomy, physiology and the confusion of Greek medical philosophy (321-30 BC) -- Rome: Marcus Aurelius and Galen (AD 166-169) -- Rome: Marcus Aurelius and Galen (169-177) -- Early Christianity and medicine (c.400-c.900) -- Medicine in the world of Islam (c.900-1037) -- The late Middle Ages (c.1037-c.1330) -- Boccaccio and the Black Death (c.1330-1348) -- Alchemy (1348-1516) -- The shackles of medieval medicine are broken (second quarter of 16th century) -- Discovery that the blood circulates and a mechanistic philosophy (second half of 16th-first half of 17th century) -- Beginning of microscopic anatomy (second half of 17th century) -- Birth of pathology (18th century) -- Instruments are brought to the aid of diagnosis (1815-1826) -- Birth of bacteriology. The start of modern medicine (mid-19th century-1881) -- Characters and chronology.

ISBN

1904057764 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 62224333
• SCSB-10670773

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library