Ebook: A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine
Author: Michael T. Kennedy MD
- Tags: Epidemiology, Internal Medicine, Medicine, History, History, Special Topics, Medicine, Medicine & Health Sciences, New Used & Rental Textbooks, Specialty Boutique
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Asklepiad Press
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This introduction to the history of medicine begins with the evolution of infectious diseases at the end of the last ice age. It describes the origin of science and medicine in ancient civilizations, including China and India. The first third of the book covers the early period that is considered the "classical" history of medicine. The remainder describes the evolution of modern medicine and surgery up to the present. The final chapter is a history of medical economics and explains the origin of health insurance, HMOs and medical malpractice lawsuits, subjects explained nowhere else in the medical school curriculum.
There is a 40 page index and over 550 footnotes, most of them references to the original articles described in the text. A bibliography of essential sources is also included.
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