The Western Medical Tradition 2 Volume Paperback Set
The Western Medical Tradition 2 Volume Paperback Set
Anne Hardy, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College, London
Stephen Jacyna, University College London
Christopher Lawrence, University College London
E. M. Tansey, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College, London
Lawrence I. Conrad
Michael Neve
Vivian Nutton
Roy Porter
Andrew Wear
£92.00
GBPThis set comprises two paperback volumes. The first volume, The Western Medical Tradition, 800BC–1800AD, examines the system of medical ideas that went back to the Greeks of the eighth century BC, and played a major role in the understanding and treatment of health and disease. Its influence spread from the Aegean basin to the rest of the Mediterranean region, to Europe, and then to European settlements overseas. The second volume, The Western Medical Tradition, 1800–2000, is a detailed and authoritative account, which describes the most important people, events, and transformations in 'Western' medicine, with explanations for why medicine developed as it did. It contains one of the first historical summaries of the development of medicine after WWII. It is an authoritative source of new information as well as a synthesis of the current state of knowledge.
- An authoritative set, by members of the academic staff of the world's leading centre for the history of medicine
- Contains a comprehensive account of the history of Western medicine, from the 8th century BC to the end of the 20th century
- Contains useful summary material: illustrations, charts and tables, timelines, bibliographical essays
Product details
May 2009Multiple copy pack
9780521678070
970 pages
325 × 250 × 75 mm
2.19kg
35 tables
Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
- The Western Medical Tradition, 800BC–1800AD: Introduction
- 1. Medicine in the Greek world, 800–50BC
- 2. Roman medicine, 250BC–200AD
- 3. Medicine in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
- 4. The Arab-Islamic medical tradition
- 5. Medicine in medieval western Europe, 1000–1500
- 6. Medicine in early modern Europe, 1500–1700
- 7. The eighteenth century
- 8. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index. The Western Medical Tradition, 1800–2000:
- 1. Medicine in transformation, 1800–50
- 2. The rise of science in medicine, 1850–1913
- 3. Continuity in crisis: medicine, 1914–45
- 4. Medical enterprise and global response, 1945–2000.
