The editors called upon the expertise of an international team of contributors to survey all aspects of the history of medicine. That expertise is reflected in the broad range of topics covered, including non-orthodox and non-western forms of medicine.

In this wide ranging survey, W.F. Bynum examines the parallel development of biomedical sciences (such as physiology, pathology, bacteriology and immunology) and of clinical practice and preventive medicine in nineteenth-century Europe and North America. By examining the contributions of key individuals, such as Louis Pasteur, R.T.H. Laennec, Claude Bernard, Edwin Chadwick, and Rudolf Virchow, and important institutions, Professor Bynum shows how science played a vital role in transforming medical education and medical care, and how the medical profession ultimately benefited from the public...

Arising out of a conference commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of the death of William Hunter (1718 1783), this book explores the career of that highly successful physician, obstetrician, medical educator and man of culture against the backgrounds of the medical, intellectual, social and medical-institutional worlds of his time. Medicine in eighteenth-century London has been little explored and much misunderstood. This collection of essays uses Hunter's broad influence as a vehicle to examine such areas as medical education, hospitals and the incomes and sources of prestige of...

From ancient Greece to the CAT scanner, these essays examine the 'education of the senses' in medical diagnosis and treatment.