Medicine Books

Book Features

• Author: William Bynum
• Language: English
• ISBN10: 019921543X

Book Overview

>>>Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the long term of health care, this Quite Brief Introduction surveys the background of medicine from classical times, through the scholastic medieval tradition and the Enlightenment to the present day. Taking a thematic rather than strictly chronological approach, W.F. Bynum, explores the key turning points in the history of Western medicine-such as the initial surgical procedures, the advent of hospitals, the introduction of anesthesia, X-Rays, vaccinations, and numerous other innovations, as effectively as the rise of experimental medicine. The book also explores Western medicine’s encounters with Chinese and Indian medicine, as properly as nontraditional treatments such as homeopathy, chiropractic, and other substitute medicines. Covering a huge amount of data, this Extremely Quick Introduction sheds new light on medicine’s previous, whilst at the identical time engaging with contemporary troubles, discoveries, and controversies, this kind of as the spiraling costs of wellness care, lack of wellbeing insurance for millions, breakthrough remedies, and significantly more. For readers who want to realize the how we have arrived at our existing state of medical practice and expertise, this book is vital studying….