Porter, Roy, 1946-2002
New York : W. W. Norton, c1997.
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- British ed. published with subtitle: A medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 719-764) and index.
- Introduction — The roots of medicine — Antiquity — Medicine and faith — The medieval west — Indian medicine — Chinese medicine — Renaissance — The new science — Enlightenment — Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century — Nineteenth-century medical care — Public medicine — From Pasteur to penicillin — Tropical medicine, world diseases — Psychiatry — Medical research — Clinical science — Surgery — Medicine, state and society — Medicine and the people — The past, the present and the future.
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