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• Title:History of medicine : a scandalously short introduction / Jacalyn Duffin.
  
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• Author/Creator:Duffin, Jacalyn.
  
• Published/Created:Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2010.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WZ40 .D834 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 05-21-2024
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medicine--History.
  
• Medical Subjects: History of Medicine.
  
• Edition:2nd ed.
  
• Description:xx, 495 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
  
• 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.
  Years of pedagogic experience, medical developments, and reader feedback have led to new sections throughout the book on topics including bioethics, forensics, genetics, reproductive technology, clinical trials, and recent outbreaks of BSE, West Nile Virus, SARS, and anthrax. Up to date and filled with pithy examples and teaching tools such as a searchable online bibliography, History of Medicine continues to demonstrate the power of historical research to inform current health care practice and enhance cultural understanding."--Pub. desc.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780802098252 (bound)
  0802098258 (bound)
  9780802095565 (pbk.)
  0802095569 (pbk.)
  
• Contents: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.