The Western Medical Tradition 1800}}}2000 [Hardcover]

This book, first published in 2006, is an authoritative description of the important changes in Western medicine over the past two centuries.Written by leading experts in the field, The Western Medical Tradition, 1800-2000 not only describes the most important people, events, and transformations in the past two centuries of Western medicine, but gives explanations for why medicine developed as it did, becoming as important as it has in the modern world. A companion volume to The Western medical Tradition, 800 BC to AD 1800, this volume is an authoritative source of new information as well as a synthesis of the current state of knowledge on this fascinating subject.Written by leading experts in the field, The Western Medical Tradition, 1800-2000 not only describes the most important people, events, and transformations in the past two centuries of Western medicine, but gives explanations for why medicine developed as it did, becoming as important as it has in the modern world. A companion volume to The Western medical Tradition, 800 BC to AD 1800, this volume is an authoritative source of new information as well as a synthesis of the current state of knowledge on this fascinating subject.Written by leading experts who not only describe the most important people, events, and transformations, but give explanations for why medicine developed as it did, this new edition contains one of the first historical summaries of the development of medicine after the Second World War. It is an authoritative source of new information as well as a synthesis of the current state of knowledge on this fascinating subject. The Western Medical Tradition, 1800-2000 is a companion volume to The Western Medical Tradition, 800 BC to AD 1800.1. Medicine in transformation, 180050 Stephen Jacyna; 2. The rise of science in medicine, 18501913 W. F. Bynum; 3. Continuity in crisis: medicine, 191445 Christopher Lawrence; 4. Medical enterprise and global response, 19452000 Anne Hardy and E. M.lƒ=