Sources in the history of medicine : the impact of disease and trauma /

Sources in the history of medicine : the impact of disease and trauma / edited by Robin L. Anderson. - Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2007. - xiv, 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Paleopathology and primitive medicine -- The Middle East in antiquity -- China and India in antiquity -- Greece -- Rome and Byzantium -- Europe, 500-1500 -- Medicine in the Muslim world and the Americas, 700-1500 -- The Renaissance and the scientific revolution: technical and theoretical change -- Europe, 1500-1800: health, disease, trauma, and society -- The nineteenth century: the development and spread of Western medicine -- The nineteenth century: change and upheaval -- The twentieth century: advances and challenges -- The twentieth century: new enemies, old nemeses -- A brave new century: dilemmas in twenty-first-century medicine.

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Medicine--History.
Diseases--History.
Diseases and history.
History of Medicine.
Communicable Diseases--history.

R133 / .S67 2007

610.9

WZ 40 / S724 2007