The History of Medicine
Rooney, Anne
ISBN-10:
1448872286
ISBN-13:
9781448872282
The story of the development of medicine is intriguing, and involves countless trial and error. Readers learn of the stories less-often heard of in this intriguing volume. They learn about the genesis of the medicine we often take for granted today; learning of these back stories, readers will gain an appreciation for common treatments to afflictions that often proved fatal in the past.
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| Introduction: Short Lives and the Long Art | |
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| "What a Piece of Work Is a Man" | |
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| On Balance | |
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| Discovering the Body's Secrets | |
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| William Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood A Mechanistic Model | |
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| Chemical Reactions | |
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| The Brain in Control | |
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| Models of Disease | |
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| Supernatural Agency | |
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| "Bad Air" | |
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| Agents of Disease | |
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| The Black Death: Reprise Viruses: Tiny Villains | |
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| What's Eating You? | |
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| Magic Mushrooms? | |
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| Disease on the Brain Passing It On | |
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| Chemical Imbalances | |
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| Vital Chemicals: Vitamins | |
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| Hormones: Diabetes Mellitus Enzymes: Getting Things Going | |
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| Diseases of Excess | |
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| The Body Turns Against Itself | |
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| All Change | |
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| Diagnosis | |
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| What's the Problem? | |
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| In the Hands of the Gods | |
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| Signs and Symptoms Tricks and Tools of the Trade | |
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| The Body's Secret Sounds | |
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| Pumping Blood Hot and Cold | |
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| Looking Within | |
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| Man and Machine | |
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| Treatment | |
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| Beyond Human Powers | |
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| Restoring the Balance | |
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| Blood Will Out | |
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| Purging Nature's Pharmacopeia | |
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| From Apothecaries to Pharmacists | |
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| Leaving Well Alone Nothing Will Come of Nothing? | |
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| Curing Like With Like | |
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| More Harm Than Good? | |
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| Under the Knife | |
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| Early Surgery | |
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| Tools of the Trade | |
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| Doctors vs. Surgeons | |
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| Mummies and Medics Indian Surgery | |
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| Classical Surgeons | |
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| Surgery in the Arab World Monks, Surgeons, and Barber-Surgeons | |
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| Surgeons and Soldiers | |
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| All At Sea The Business of Surgery | |
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| Finishing Off | |
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| The Watershed | |
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| Antisepsis Remaking the Body | |
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| Surgery Comes of Age | |
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| The Long Art | |
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| Deities and Doctors | |
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| The Mighty Fallen | |
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| Before Man and God | |
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| Fellow Feeling The Art is Long… | |
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| Hospitals | |
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| The Rise of Nursing | |
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| High-Tech Hospitals Medical Research | |
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| Medical Ethics | |
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| Writing Tomorrow's History | |
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| Glossary | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Index | |
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$42.60
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Edition:
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2013
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Publisher:
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Rosen Publishing Group, Incorporated, The
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Binding:
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Trade Cloth
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Pages:
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208
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Size:
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6.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
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Weight:
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1.28 lbs.
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Language:
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English
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