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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 610 EAN: 9780974946641 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0974946648 Label: Asklepiad Press Manufacturer: Asklepiad Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 528 Publication Date: 2004-02 Publisher: Asklepiad Press Studio: Asklepiad Press Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: This introduction to the history of medicine begins with the evolution of infectious diseases at the end of the last ice age. It describes the origin of science and medicine in ancient civilizations, including China and India. The first third of the book covers the early period that is considered the "classical" history of medicine. The remainder describes the evolution of modern medicine and surgery up to the present. The final chapter is a history of medical economics and explains the origin of health insurance, HMOs and medical malpractice lawsuits, subjects explained nowhere else in the medical school curriculum. There is a 40 page index and over 550 footnotes, most of them references to the original articles described in the text. A bibliography of essential sources is also included. Average Rating:
 Rating: - no problems!The book arrived it great shape without any damage. Book was brand new just as stated in the description. Also, the book arrived in the amount of time that was stated. Rating: - I'm the authorI got a chuckle from a recent review by Seven Octaves. It was similar to a review in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Everyone wishes I had added a few hundred pages on their favorite subject. The book was written for medical students and nurses and pre-med students. I have been surprised at the acceptance by non-medical people. The idea was to provide what every young medical student or nurse or pre-med student should know. Salvarsan is of historic significance only. Erlich is important ... Read More Rating:  - Fine BookOther reviewers have stated what this book is about, but I don't think this is quite a 5-star book however. Even though the title is "brief", he made no mention of all was the growth of plastic surgery following all the disfigured soldiers returning from WW1. Paul Ehrlich's development Salvarsan didn't even get an entire page devoted to it. Some history on treatments for others diseases are lacking or absent. This book could have been really good if the author threw in a few hundred more pages, ... Read More Rating: - The Return of Humanism in Medicine: Hope for the Future!In this litigious time when physicians and all medical care workers tend to live under an umbrella of suspect brought on by the intervention of the media, vast lawsuits, big business (pharmaceutical companies) intervention, and computer access to data, there has occurred a response in the medical facilities to promote 'defensive medicine' to instruct the nascent students how to cope with the antagonistic world outside the halls of the teaching hospitals. This has resulted in less emphasis on the learning ... Read More Rating: - The product of a three year research projectA Brief History Of Disease, Science & Medicine is the product of Dr. Michael Kennedy's three year research project to write a book that would fill the unfortunate gaps in most medical student's educational curriculums, and also be of considerable value for the non-specialist general reader seeking a clearer understanding of the long history behind what we commonly recognize as the history of medical development from superstition to science. The first eight chapters aptly cover the history of early medicine ... Read More 
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