Paleopathology and primitive medicine -- The Middle East in antiquity -- China and India in antiquity -- Greece -- Rome and Byzantium -- Europe, 500-1500 -- Medicine in the Muslim world and the Americas, 700-1500 -- The Renaissance and the scientific revolution: technical and theoretical change -- Europe, 1500-1800: health, disease, trauma, and society -- The nineteenth century: the development and spread of Western medicine -- The nineteenth century: change and upheaval -- The twentieth century: advances and challenges -- The twentieth century: new enemies, old nemeses -- A brave new century: dilemmas in twenty-first-century medicine.
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