The Western Medical Tradition 2 Volume Paperback Set
By (author): "Stephen Jacyna, E.M. Tansey, Christopher Lawrence, Vivian Nutton, Lawrence I. Conrad, Michael Neve, Andrew Wear, Anne Hardy, Roy Porter, William Bynum"
Publish Date:
May 31st 2007
ISBN0521678072
ISBN139780521678070
AsinThe Western Medical Tradition 2 Volume Paperback Set
Original titleThe Western Medical Tradition 2 Volume Set
SeriesThe Western Medical Tradition #1-2
This 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 WW II. It is an authoritative source of new information as well as a synthesis of the current state of knowledge.
