Story of Medicine
Brian Ward
- New York Lorenz Books c2000
- 64 p.
- Exploring History .
Medicine around the world and across the ages.
Healthy mind and body -- Earliest medicine -- Shamans and the supernatural -- Ayurvedic medicine -- Chinese medicine -- Hippocrates and the greeks -- Roman medicine -- Arab world -- Galen's legacy -- Renaissance discoveries -- Plague and pestilence -- Making diagnosis -- Rise of surgery -- Germ-free and pain-free -- Quacks and charlatans -- Public health -- Microbe hunters -- Immunization -- Germ killers -- Woman pioneers -- Rebuilding the body -- Healing the mind -- Plants and pills -- Alternative therapies -- Holistic medicine -- Modern technology -- Imaging the body -- Looking to the future.