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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... Society of Scholars, 1981). From 1947 to 1957 he was professor of the history of medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. From 1957 until his retirement in 1971 he was professor of the history of medicine at the University of ...
... society's progressive illumination of the body in health and disease. Yet it has the enduring virtue of being personal, unabashedly opinionated, and straightforward—as well as short. And it has another and even more enduring quality ...
... his perspective, diseases were not transparent, trans- historical, and unambiguous conditions. Past definitions of disease did not track neatly onto twentieth- century categories, and societies could use a variety of xii Foreword.
Erwin H. Ackerknecht, Lisa Haushofer. twentieth- century categories, and societies could use a variety of criteria to label ailments— a pro cess we see acted out in our own society as we debate the nature of depression or attention ...
... society. Medicine cannot be reduced to the technology it deploys, no matter how powerful those intellectual and therapeutic tools. It is always configured by social relations, individual orientations— and, in our modern world, by public ...
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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 |