A Short History of MedicineJHU Press, 1. maj 2016 - 272 sider A bestselling history of medicine, enriched with a new foreword, concluding essay, and bibliographic essay. 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. |
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... problem, just as the discovery of the tuberculosis bacillus did not guarantee a cure for the disease. “Medical knowledge,” he explained, “is probably now sufficient to eradicate these diseases, but social conditions insure their ...
... problems. I have compressed into twenty short chapters the fascinating story of man's progress in the science and art of medicine. This story begins with the first groping attempts of primitive man to fight disease with magic and stone ...
... problems were the same. The study of how solutions were approached, obtained, or missed in the past helps in finding, or at least understanding, the solutions of our own time. Parallel to discontinuity there runs a great continuity in ...
... problems are very close to final solution. The widespread absence of real understanding is reflected in the continuous use of such expressions as “miracle drug” or “miraculous operation,” which underlines the fact that at heart many of ...
... problems of health and disease cannot be properly understood. Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. Science is primarily analytic, art primarily synthetic. Medicine is likely to remain an art, however hard we may try to ...
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4 Ancient India and China | 27 |
Physicians Priests Philosophers | 36 |
Hippocratic Medicine | 43 |
Alexandria and Rome | 50 |
8 Medieval Medicine | 62 |
13 The Basic Sciences during the Nineteenth Century | 125 |
14 Clinical Medicine of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century | 135 |
15 Microbiology | 139 |
16 Surgery and Gynecologyin the Nineteenth Century | 148 |
17 The New Specialism of the Nineteenth Century | 155 |
18 Public Health and Professional Developments in the Nineteenth Century | 168 |
19 Medicine in the United States Prior to 1900 | 174 |
Trends in TwentiethCentury Medicine | 181 |
9 Renaissance Medicine | 74 |
10 Medicine in the Seventeenth Century | 89 |
11 Medicine in the Eighteenth Century | 102 |
12 The Clinical Schools of the First Half of the Nineteenth Century | 115 |
Concluding Essay Erwin H Ackerknecht Social Medicine and the History of Medicine | 193 |
Bibliographic Essay by Lisa Haushofer | 213 |
Index | 235 |