Synopses & Reviews
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
Synopsis
"a survey history of medicine from the earliest times, centered thematically on how changing concepts of disease have affected its management. . . . Disease and Its Control is a fresh and welcome synthesis of historical scholarship that will be accessible to interested laymen." Annals of Internal Medicine
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