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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... knowledge, increasingly precise and—over time— therapeutically efficacious. Even as most pages in his Short History chronicled the accumulation of insight about the human body, Ackerknecht never let his readers forget that medicine was ...
... knowledge,” he explained, “is probably now sufficient to eradicate these diseases, but social conditions insure their continued existence” (147). Ackerknecht never doubted that there was a thing called tuberculosis and that it was ...
... knowledge and insight and, above all, by the extremely rapid evolution of medicine during the last two decades. In republishing this little text, I feel a deep sense of gratitude to the United States, the country that forty years ago ...
... of the important role of theories, for better or worse, at all times. The knowledge of old theories offers an additional advantage to the doctor in that many of his patients still cling to a variety xx Why Medical History?
... knowledge of human nature. It is true that knowledge can be picked up in the trial- and- error method of daily practice, but that is a long and costly way of learning. Medical history can at least help shorten the period of trial and ...
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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 |