History of medicine : a scandalously short introduction

Summary: "Jacalyn Duffin's History of Medicine has for ten years been one of the leading texts used to teach medical and nursing students the history of their profession. It has also been widely used in history courses and by general readers. An accessible overview of medical history, this new edition is greatly expanded, including more information on medicine in the United States, Great Britain, and in other European countries. The book continues to be organized conceptually around the major fields of medical endeavor such as anatomy, pharmacology, obstetrics, and psychiatry and has grown to include a new chapter on public health.

Record details

ISBN: 9780802098252
ISBN: 0802098258
ISBN: 9780802095565
ISBN: 0802095569
Physical Description: print
xx, 495 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : heroes and villains in the history of medicine -- The fabricated body : history of anatomy -- Interrogating life : history of physiology -- Science of suffering : history of pathology -- First do no harm : history of treatment, pharmacology and pharmaceuticals -- On becoming and being a doctor : education, licensing, payment and bioethics -- Plagues and peoples : epidemic diseases in history -- Why is blood special? Changing concepts of a vital humour -- Technology and disease : stethoscope, hospitals and other gadgets -- Work of the hand : history of surgery -- Women's medicine and medicine's women : history of obstetrics and gynecology and women -- Wrestling with demons : history of psychiatry -- No baby, no nation : history of pediatrics -- A many-faceted gem : the decline and rebirth of family medicine -- When the patient is plural : public and international health -- Sleuthing and science : how to research a question in medical history.