Introduction : heroes and villains in the history of medicine -- The fabricated body : history of anatomy -- Interrogating life : history of physiology -- Science of suffering : history of pathology -- First do no harm : history of treatment, pharmacology and pharmaceuticals -- On becoming and being a doctor : education, licensing, payment and bioethics -- Plagues and peoples : epidemic diseases in history -- Why is blood special? Changing concepts of a vital humour -- Technology and disease : stethoscope, hospitals and other gadgets -- Work of the hand : history of surgery -- Women's medicine and medicine's women : history of obstetrics and gynecology and women -- Wrestling with demons : history of psychiatry -- No baby, no nation : history of pediatrics -- A many-faceted gem : the decline and rebirth of family medicine -- When the patient is plural : public and international health -- Sleuthing and science : how to research a question in medical history.
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