Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-475) and index.
Contents:
The totem of medicine: Hippocrates -- The paradox of Pergamon: Galen -- The reawakening: Andreas Vesalius and the renaissance of medicine -- The gentle surgeon: Ambrose Pare -- Nature herself must be our advisor: William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood -- The new medicine: the anatomical concept of Giovanni Morgagni -- Why the leaves changed color in the autumn: surgery, science, and John Hunter -- Without diagnosis, there is no rational treatment: Rene Laennec, inventor of the stethoscope -- The germ theory before germs: the enigma of Ignac Semmelweis -- Surgery without pain: the origins of general anesthesia -- The fundamental unit of life: sick cells, microscopes, and Rudolf Virchow -- to tend the fleshly tabernacle of the immortal spirit: Joseph Lister's antiseptic surgery -- Medical science comes to America: William Howard Halsted of Johns Hopkins -- A triumph of twentieth-century medicine: Helen Taussig and the blue-baby operation -- New hearts for old: the story of transplantation.
Summary:
The best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning How We Die chronicles the history of medicine through profiles of important physicians and research scientists and reviews key medical theories and pioneering advances, with portraits of Galen, Andreas Vesalius, William Harvey, Joseph Lister, and other medical pioneers.
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