Disease and Its Control: The Shaping of Modern Thought

ISBN-13: 9780275927790 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 276 str.

Robert P. Hudson

Opis

This book is . . . a survey history of medicine from the earliest times, centered thematically on how changing concepts of disease have affected its management. . . . One finds a gratifying mastery of recent as well as classic scholarship in medical history and a careful sidestepping of positivistic excesses. . . . Disease and Its Control is a fresh and welcome synthesis of historical scholarship that will be accessible to interested laymen. Annals of Internal Medicine