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A Brief History of Medicine: From Hippocrates' Four Humours to Crick and Watson's Double Helix
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by Paul Strathern
Sales Rank: 223887
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Cover Type: Paperback with 280 pages
Published by: Running Press July 10, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0786715251
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0786715251
Book Dimensions:
8 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 12 ounces
Product Description
The foundations for the scientific study of the body and modern Western medicine as we know it started with William Harvey's discovery of the circulatory system in the early 17th century. But its roots stretch back as far as ancient Greece, when medicine first departed from the divine and the mystical and moved toward observation and logic. Its early development was slow, constrained by the taboo around dissection (only external symptoms could be used for diagnosis), as well as superstition and mysticism (illness was the work of demons and pixies and curable only by penitence). Paul Strathern steers us skillfully through the maze of discoveries, diseases, and wrong turns that have made medicine what it is today—super efficient, high tech, and increasingly costly. A Brief History of Medicine offers an accessible history of the arguments, missteps, and dumb luck that led to the world's most important medical breakthroughs—from anatomy, grave robbing, the plague, and germ theory to vaccination, quackery, microorganisms, and penicillin.
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This book was fascinating and amazing and wonderful, untill I got to the part about florence nightingale. This person got it wrong, wrong, wrong! What he says about florence is all backward. It was her not the government who wanted to clean up at the crimean war, anyone who knows anything about florence nightingale will know this. Otherwise it was very interesting. Shame about the huge mistake.
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