A History of Medicine

ISBN-13: 9780367029982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 1291 str.

Arturo Castiglioni

Opis

Originally published in 1941, A History of Medicine provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to the advancement of medicine, from Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Babylonia, all the way up to the 20^th century.

Spis treści

1. Medical Thought in its Historical Evolution  2. The Origin of Medicine in Prehistory and in Primitive Peoples. Empiric, Demonistic, Animistic, Magic Medicine  3. Mesopotamian Medicine. Magic and Priestly Medicine  4. Old Egyptian Medicine. Priestly Medicine, Origins of the Philosophic Concept  5. The Medicine of the People of Israel. Theurgic Medicine. Canonical Codifications of Sanitary Laws  6. The Medicine of Ancient Persia and India. Systematic Theories  7. Far Eastern Medicine. Systems of Scholastic Medicine  8. The Medicine of Ancient Greece. The Temples and Cult of Aesculapius – The Greco-Italian Schools – The Dawn of Scientific Medicine  9. The Golden Age of Greek Medicine. Hippocratic Medicine – A Biologic and Synthetic Concept  10. Post-Hippocratic Medicine. The Alexandrian School. Beginnings of Anatomical and Physiological Studies  11. Roman Medicine. The Latin Concept of Medicine and Sanitary Legislation  12. The Decadence of Medical Science. Christian Dogmatic Medicine. The Byzantine School  13. Arabian Medicine. Lay Medicine. Renaissance of Classical Doctrines  14. Medicine in the Christian West During the First Centuries of the Middle Ages. From Monastic Medicine to the Lay Medicine of Salerno  15. Medicine in the Later Middle Ages. The Universities and Humanism. The Precursors of the Renaissance  16. Renaissance. The Revival of Anatomy and Physiology. Biological and Clinical Trends  17. The Seventeenth Century. Dawn of Scientific Liberty. Biological and Experimental Trends in Medicine  18. The Eighteenth Century. From Speculative Systems to Pathological and Clinical Concepts  19. First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Experimental and Biological Concepts. The Cell Doctrine  20. The Second Half of the Nineteenth Century. Clinical Medicine Based on the Fundamental Sciences. Growth of the Specialities  21. The Twentieth Century  Bibliography  Index of Subjects  Index of Persons

O autorze

Arturo Castiglioni