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Title Western medicine : an illustrated history / edited by Irvine Loudon.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

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 Moore Stacks  R131 .W47 1997    Available  ---
Description xvi, 347 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color), maps, portraits (some color) ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-315) and index.
Contents Medicine in view: art and visual representation / Martin Kemp -- Medicine in the classical World / James Longrigg -- Europe and Islam / Emilie Savage-Smith -- Medicine in the Latin middle ages / Michael R. McVaugh -- Medicine and the Renaissance / Katharine Park -- From the scientific revolution to the germ theory -- Harold Cook --
From the germ theory to 1945 / E.M. Tansey -- Medicine in the second half of the twentieth century / Stephen Lock -- Growth of medical education and the medical profession / Lisa Rosner -- Rise of the modern hospital / Ulrich tröhler and Cay-Rüdiger Prüll -- Epidemics and the geography of disease / Mary Dobson --
Nurses and ancillaries in the christian era / Anne Summers -- Childbirth / Irvine Loudon -- Children in hospital / J.A. Walker-Smith -- Medicine and the mind / Michael Neve -- Spread of western medicine / Michael Worboys -- Unofficial and unorthodox medicine / Margaret Pelling -- Medicine, politics, and the state / Jane Lewis -- Patient's view / Anne digby.
Subject Medicine -- History.
Medicine.
History.
History of Medicine.
Added Author Loudon, Irvine.
Spine Title Oxford illustrated history of western medicine
ISBN 0198205090