Medical Advance, Public Health and Social Evolution (eBook)

The Commonwealth and International Library: Liberal Studies Division

Charles Wilcocks (Autor)

D. F. Bratchell, E. F. Candin (Herausgeber)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
280 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4831-4187-9 (ISBN)

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Medical Advance, Public Health and Social Evolution is an attempt to relate medical progress to the intellectual climate of the various broad periods of history, and to the social changes which took place in those periods and which influenced-and were influenced by-medical progress. Since the intellectual developments and historical events which have impinged upon medical progress have occurred in the setting of history, it has therefore been convenient to divide the book into chapters with a historical basis. The book begins with discussions of Greek and Roman life and medicine; Indian and Persian life and medicine; the Middle Ages; and the Renaissance and the resuscitation of science; and the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Separate chapters then deal with the development of hygiene; the bacteriological era; bacteriological control of food and water; and disease transmission by arthropods. Subsequent chapters cover drugs, antibiotics, hormones, and anesthetics; occupational medicine; degenerative diseases, cancer, radiology, and medical genetics; psychological medicine; and statistical methods and experiments on man and animals.

Inhalt

Front Cover 2
Medical Advance, Public Health and Social Evolution 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 6
Acknowledgements 7
CHAPTER 1. Introduction 8
CHAPTER 2. Greek and Roman Life and Medicine : Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Celsus 13
GREEK SOCIAL STRUCTURE 14
GREEK MEDICINE 18
HIPPOCRATES 25
ARISTOTLE 30
GALEN 32
ROMAN MEDICINE 39
CELSUS 43
CHAPTER 3. Indian and Persian Life and Medicine 44
INDIAN CIVILIZATION 44
INDIAN MEDICINE 46
PERSIAN MEDICINE 51
CHAPTER 4. The Middle Ages 54
CHAPTER 5. The Renaissance and the Resuscitation of Science: The English Renaissance 66
CHAPTER 6. The Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 90
THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 90
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 95
CHAPTER 7. The Development of Hygiene: Infection, Midwifery and Surgery 104
THE DEVELOPMENT OF HYGIENE 104
THE PUBLIC HEALTH MOVEMENT 106
INFECTION : MIDWIFERY AND SURGERY 117
CHAPTER 8. The Bacteriological Era 125
CHAPTER 9. Food and Water: Bacteriological Control 142
FOOD AND ITS BACTERIOLOGICAL CONTROL 142
WATER 154
CHAPTER 10. Transmission of Disease by Arthropods: Worms, Protozoa, Viruses, Bacteria 164
CHAPTER 11. The Worms 189
CHAPTER 12. Drugs Antibiotics
DRUGS 203
ANTIBIOTICS 208
HORMONES 216
ANAESTHETICS 217
CHAPTER 13. Nutrition 220
CHAPTER 14. Occupational Medicine 232
CHAPTER 15. The Degenerative Diseases Cancer
THE DEGENERATIVE DISEASES 249
GANGER 252
RADIOLOGY AND DISEASE 253
MEDICAL GENETICS 254
CHAPTER 16. Psychological Medicine 257
CHAPTER 17. Statistical Methods Experiments on Man and Animals
STATISTICAL METHODS 264
EXPERIMENTS ON MAN AND ANIMALS 267
CONCLUSION 270
References 272
Index 276
TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL PROGRESS 280
HUMAN GROWTH AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY 281

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.10.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Behandlungstechniken
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 1-4831-4187-X / 148314187X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4831-4187-9 / 9781483141879