Western medicine: an illustrated history
Year: 1998
Type: book-review
Abstract: I From the hippocratic corpus to twentieth-century medicine: Martin Kemp, Medicine in View - Art and Visual Representation James Longrigg, Medicine in the Classical World Emilie Savage-Smith, Europe and Islam Michael McVaugh, Medicine in the Middle Ages c.500-1350 Katherine Park, Medicine and the Renaissance Harold Cook, From the Scientific Revolution to Germ Theory E.M. Tansey, From Germ Theory to 1945 Stephen Lock, From 1950 to the Present. II Medicine in context: Lisa Rosner, The Growth of Medical Education and the Medical Profession Ulrich Trohler, Cay-Rudiger Prull, The Rise of the Modern Hospital Mary Dobson, Epidemics and the Geography of Disease Anne Summers, Nurses and Ancilliaries in the Christian Era Irvine Loudon, Childbirth J.A. Walker-Smith, Children in Hospital 1850-1990 Michael Neve, Medicine and the Mind Michael Worboys, The Spread of Western Medicine Margaret Pelling, Unofficial and Unorthodox Medicine Jane Lewis, Medicine, Politics, and the State Anne Digby, The Patient's View.
Source: Choice Reviews Online
Author: Nutton, Vivian
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1523819545