A History of Medicine

Arturo Castiglioni (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

1296 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-02998-2 (ISBN)

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Originally published in 1941, A History of Medicine provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to the advancement of medicine, from Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Babylonia, all the way up to the 20th century. The book looks at the close relationship between the progress of medicine and its advancement of civilization, it covers the development of medicine from, old magical rites, religious creeds, classical Hippocratism and revolutionary discoveries, while looking at the associated economic, intellectual, and political conditions of life in different nations, during different times. The book provides an essential and detailed look at the rich history of medicine and how it has impacted society.

Arturo Castiglioni

1. Medical Thought in its Historical Evolution 2. The Origin of Medicine in Prehistory and in Primitive Peoples. Empiric, Demonistic, Animistic, Magic Medicine 3. Mesopotamian Medicine. Magic and Priestly Medicine 4. Old Egyptian Medicine. Priestly Medicine, Origins of the Philosophic Concept 5. The Medicine of the People of Israel. Theurgic Medicine. Canonical Codifications of Sanitary Laws 6. The Medicine of Ancient Persia and India. Systematic Theories 7. Far Eastern Medicine. Systems of Scholastic Medicine 8. The Medicine of Ancient Greece. The Temples and Cult of Aesculapius – The Greco-Italian Schools – The Dawn of Scientific Medicine 9. The Golden Age of Greek Medicine. Hippocratic Medicine – A Biologic and Synthetic Concept 10. Post-Hippocratic Medicine. The Alexandrian School. Beginnings of Anatomical and Physiological Studies 11. Roman Medicine. The Latin Concept of Medicine and Sanitary Legislation 12. The Decadence of Medical Science. Christian Dogmatic Medicine. The Byzantine School 13. Arabian Medicine. Lay Medicine. Renaissance of Classical Doctrines 14. Medicine in the Christian West During the First Centuries of the Middle Ages. From Monastic Medicine to the Lay Medicine of Salerno 15. Medicine in the Later Middle Ages. The Universities and Humanism. The Precursors of the Renaissance 16. Renaissance. The Revival of Anatomy and Physiology. Biological and Clinical Trends 17. The Seventeenth Century. Dawn of Scientific Liberty. Biological and Experimental Trends in Medicine 18. The Eighteenth Century. From Speculative Systems to Pathological and Clinical Concepts 19. First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Experimental and Biological Concepts. The Cell Doctrine 20. The Second Half of the Nineteenth Century. Clinical Medicine Based on the Fundamental Sciences. Growth of the Specialities 21. The Twentieth Century Bibliography Index of Subjects Index of Persons

Erscheinungsdatum	04.06.2020
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Library Editions: History of Medicine
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-367-02998-7 / 0367029987
ISBN-13	978-0-367-02998-2 / 9780367029982
Zustand	Neuware