Disease and medicine in world history /

Disease and medicine in world history /

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Main Author: Watts, S. J.‪ (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Series: Themes in world history.

Subjects:

Disease > History.
Medicine > History.

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Call Number: R131 .W35 2003

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Table of Contents:
  • Sickness and health, a global concern
  • Before the advent of acute epidemic diseases : pharaonic Egypt and the preconquest New World : extinct societies
  • Pluralism in ancient Greece
  • The evolution of medical systems in the Middle East c. 632 CE to modern times
  • Health and disease on the Indian subcontinent before 1869
  • Medicine and disease in China : concepts and practices from c. 1900 BCE to 1840 CE
  • The globalization of disease after 1450
  • Medicine and disease in the West, 1054-1840
  • The birth of modern scientific medicine : the German lands contrasted with the United Kingdom and the British in India
  • Health and medicine in the world, 1940 to the present.