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Companion encyclopedia of the history of medicine
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- Creator
- edited by W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London : Routledge, 1993
- Physical Details
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- 2 volumes ( (xxvi, 1806 pages) ) ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0415047714, 1299699111, 9780415092425, 9780415047715, 1315002515, 1136110445, 1136110364, 9780415164184, 9781136110443, 0415092426, 0415092434, 9781136110368, 0415164184, 9780415092432, 9781315002514
- OCLC
- ocm29223309, ocn623307835, ocn852757873, on1124417725
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- v. 1. Art and science of medicine -- Place of medicine -- What is specific to Western medicine -- Historiography of medicine -- Medical care -- Body systems -- Anatomical tradition -- Microscopical tradition -- Physiological tradition -- Biochemical tradition -- Pathological tradition -- Immunological tradition -- Clinical research -- Theories of life, health and disease -- Concepts of health, illness and disease -- Ideas of life and death -- Humoralism -- Environment and miasmata -- Contagion/germ theory/specificity -- Nosology -- Ecology of disease -- Fevers -- Constitutional and hereditary disorders -- Mental diseases -- Nutritional diseases -- Endocrine diseases -- Tropical diseases -- Cancer -- Sexually transmitted diseases -- Diseases of civilization -- Understanding disease -- Unorthodox medical theories -- Non-western concepts of disease -- Folk medicine -- Arab-Islamic medicine -- Chinese medicine -- Indian medicine -- v. 2. Clinical medicine -- History of the doctor-patient relationship -- Art of diagnosis: medicine and the five senses
- (cont) Science of diagnosis: diagnostic technology -- History of medical ethics -- Women and medicine -- Drug therapies -- Physical methods -- Surgery (traditional) -- Surgery (modern) -- Psychotherapy -- Childbirth -- Childhood -- Geriatrics -- Medicine in society -- History of the medical profession -- medical education -- Hospital -- Medical institutions and the state -- Public health -- Epidemiology -- History of personal hygiene -- General history of nursing: 1800-1900 -- Emergence of para-medical professions -- Psychiatry -- Health economics: finance, budgeting and insurance -- Medicine, ideas and culture -- Medicine and colonialism -- Internationalism in medicine and public health -- Medicine and anthropology -- Religion and medicine -- Charity before c.1850 -- Medical philanthropy after 1850 -- Medicine and architecture -- Medicine and literature -- War and modern medicine -- Pain and suffering -- Medical technologies: social contexts and consequences -- Medicine and the law -- Medical sociology -- Demography and medicine -- Medicine, mortality and morbidity
Subjects
- Medicine -- History -- Encyclopedias.
- History of Medicine -- encyclopedias.
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