The Decline of Therapeutic Bloodletting and the Collapse of Traditional Medicine

ISBN-13: 9781138515680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 169 str.

K. Codell Carter

Opis

Over the course of a single generation, without significant discussion or debate, a key practice of traditional medicine was almost completely abandoned in mid-nineteenth-century Europe

Spis treści

Preface, Introduction, 1 Bloodletting and Inflammation, 2 Bloodletting and Social Norms, 3 Disease and Causes of Disease in Early Nineteenth-Century Medical Th ought, 4 Th e Early Nineteenth-Century Conception of Quackery, 5 Th e Edinburgh Bloodletting Controversy, 6 Ignaz Semmelweis and the Adoption of Etiological Concepts of Disease, 7 Th e Collapse of Traditional Medicine and the Rise of Medical Science, 8 Th e Current Crisis in Epidemiology, References, Index

O autorze

K. Codell Carter