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Author : Roger Cooter
Release : 2021-03-25
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 875/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Medicine by : Roger Cooter
Download or read book A Cultural History of Medicine written by Roger Cooter. This book was released on 2021-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, thematic reference work covering the cultural history of medicine from antiquity through to the 21st century.
Author : Todd Meyers
Release : 2024-09-19
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 622/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age by : Todd Meyers
Download or read book A Cultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age written by Todd Meyers. This book was released on 2024-09-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cultural History of Medicine presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the changes in medical experience, knowledge and practices throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age, explores medicine as a cultural practice from 1920 to the present day. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Medicine set, this volume presents essays on the environment, food, war, animals, objects, experiences, authority and the mind. A Cultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on medicine in the modern period.
Author : Roger Cooter
Release : 2024-09-19
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Book Rating : 649/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Medicine by : Roger Cooter
Download or read book A Cultural History of Medicine written by Roger Cooter. This book was released on 2024-09-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, thematic reference work covering the cultural history of medicine from antiquity through to the 21st century.
Author : Roger Cooger
Release : 2021
Genre : Medicine
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 938/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Medicine by : Roger Cooger
Download or read book A Cultural History of Medicine written by Roger Cooger. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has our understanding of medicine evolved over the past 2,500 years? A Cultural History of Medicine, as the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of medicine from ancient times to modernity, discusses this. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2500 years of human history, this is the definitive reference work on the subject.Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one volume, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The six volumes cover: 1. - Antiquity (500BCE - 800 CE); 2. - Middle Ages (800 - 1450); 3. - Renaissance (1450 - 1650); 4. - Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. - Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6. - Modern Age (1920 - 2000+).Themes (and chapter titles) are: Environment; Food; Disease; Animals; Objects; Experiences; the Mind; Authority. The page extent for the pack is approximately 1,728 pp with c. 240 b/w illustrations. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors and an Introduction and concludes with Notes, Bibliography, and an Index.. Fuente: editorial.
Author : Elizabeth Ann Williams
Release : 2003
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier by : Elizabeth Ann Williams
Download or read book A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier written by Elizabeth Ann Williams. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is a cultural history of Montpellier vitalism, regarded by many historians as the leading school of medicine in the French Enlightenment. Offering a holistic understanding of physical-moral relation in place of Descartes' mind-body dualism, Montpellier vitalism supplied essential discursive foundations of the medical enlightenment.
