A Short History of MedicineJHU Press, 29. apr. 2016 - 272 sider 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. -- Charles E. Rosenberg, Harvard University, author of Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now |
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... Basic Sciences during the Nineteenth Century 14 Clinical Medicine of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 15 Microbiology 16 Surgery and Gynecology in the Nineteenth Century 17 The New Specialism of the Nineteenth Century 18 Public ...
... , to the hospital ward, to the laboratory, and ultimately to the creation of an increasingly complex and interdependent relationship between the basic biological sciences and clinical practice. This scheme Foreword xiii.
... basic and translational research, bureaucracy, and cumulative truth as defined by evidencebased medicine—as well as the hospital and laboratory. It is a world in which an individual's choices are shaped in some measure by aggregate risk ...
... basic plan or structure of the book, as they seem to serve their purpose in a satisfactory way. I have made numerous additions and corrections, however, particularly in the second half of the book. These are necessitated by advances in ...
... basic philosophical assumptions and scientific theories, even though it may not formulate them as clearly as its predecessors. These will be the “old theories” of tomorrow. Modern men, no less than men of former times, see only what ...
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3 Medicine of Ancient Civilizations | 14 |
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 |