Disease and Its Control: The Shaping of Modern Thought

by Robert P. Hudson

Overview

"This book is . . . a survey history of medicine from the earliest times, centered thematically on how changing concepts of disease have affected its management. . . . One finds a gratifying mastery of recent as well as classic scholarship in medical history and a careful sidestepping of positivistic excesses. . . . Disease and Its Control is a fresh and welcome synthesis of historical scholarship that will be accessible to interested laymen." Annals of Internal Medicine

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313238062
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/17/1983
Series:	Contributions in Medical Studies , #12
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

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Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations of Journals

The Birth and Death of Diseases

Disease and History

Disease as Supernatural

Disease as Natural and Generalized

The Anatomical Idea

Disease as Localized

The Concept of Experimental Medicine

Specific Causation

Specific Prevention

Specific Therapy

Health, Disease, and Illness

Appendix: The Hippocratic Oath

Bibliography

Index