History of medicine : a scandalously short introduction

Cover
Page i
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Tables
Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Heroes and Villains in the History of Medicine
2. The Fabricated Body: History of Anatomy
3. Interrogating Life: History of Physiology
4. Science of Suffering: History of Pathology
5. First Do No Harm: History of Treatment, Pharmacology, and Pharmaceuticals
6. On Becoming and Being a Doctor: Education, Licensing, and Payment
7. Plagues and Peoples: Epidemic Diseases in History
8. Why Is Blood Special? Changing Concepts of a Vital Humor
9. Technology and Disease: Stethoscopes, Hospitals, and Other Gadgets
10. Work of the Hand: History of Surgery
11. Women’s Medicine and Medicine’s Women: History of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women
12. Wrestling with Demons: History of Psychiatry
13. No Baby, No Nation: History of Pediatrics
14. A Many-Faceted Gem: The Decline and Rebirth of Family Medicine
15. When the Patient Is Plural: Public and International Health
16. ‘Slow as a Glacier, Equally Relentless’: Patient-Centered Medicine
17. Sleuthing and Science: How to Research a Question in Medical History
Appendix: Learning Objectives of This Book
Index