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• Title:A short history of medicine / Erwin H. Ackerknecht ; foreword and concluding essay by Charles E. Rosenberg ; bibliographic essay by Lisa Haushofer.
  
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• Author/Creator:Ackerknecht, Erwin H. (Erwin Heinz), 1906-1988, author.
  
• Published/Created:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WZ40 .A182s 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medicine--History.
  
• Medical Subjects: History of Medicine.
  
• Edition:Revised and expanded edition.
  
• Description:xxiii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:Erwin H. Ackerknecht?s A Short History of Medicine is a concise narrative, long appreciated by students in the history of medicine, medical students, historians, and medical professionals as well as all those seeking to understand the history of medicine. Covering the broad sweep of discoveries from parasitic worms to bacilli and x-rays, and highlighting physicians and scientists from Hippocrates and Galen to Pasteur, Koch, and Roentgen, Ackerknecht narrates Western and Eastern civilization?s work at identifying and curing disease. He follows these discoveries from the library to the bedside, hospital, and laboratory, illuminating how basic biological sciences interacted with clinical practice over time. But his story is more than one of laudable scientific and therapeutic achievement. Ackerknecht also points toward the social, ecological, economic, and political conditions that shape the incidence of disease. Improvements in health, Ackerknecht argues, depend on more than laboratory knowledge: they also require that we improve the lives of ordinary men and women by altering social conditions such as poverty and hunger. This revised and expanded edition includes a new foreword and concluding biographical essay by Charles E. Rosenberg, Ackerknecht?s former student and a distinguished historian of medicine. A new bibliographic essay by Lisa Haushofer explores recent scholarship in the history of medicine.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781421419541 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
  1421419548 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
  9781421419558 (electronic)
  1421419556 (electronic)
  
• Contents:Paleopathology and paleomedicine
  Primitive medicine
  Medicine of ancient civilizations
  Ancient India and China
  Greek medicine : physicians, priests, philosophers
  Greek medicine : Hippocratic medicine
  Greek medicine : Alexandria and Rome
  Medieval medicine
  Renaissance medicine
  Medicine in the seventeenth century
  Medicine in the eighteenth century
  The clinical schools of the first half of the nineteenth century
  The basic sciences during the nineteenth century
  Clinical medicine of the second half of the nineteenth century
  Microbiology
  Surgery and gynecology in the nineteenth century
  The new specialism of the nineteenth century
  Public health and professional developments in the nineteenth century
  Medicine in the United States prior to 1900
  Epilogue : trends in twentieth-century medicine.