A brief history of disease, science and medicine : from the Ice Age to the Genome Project / by Michael Kennedy.

Author: Kennedy, Michael, 1938-

Imprint:Mission Viejo, Calif. : Asklepiad Press, c2004.

Descriptionvii, 510 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:New title page tipped in.

Note:In the beginning -- The beginning of history -- Classical Greece and Rome -- India and China -- The rise of Islam and Arabic medicine -- The Middle Ages -- The beginning of modern science -- The Enlightenment and medicine -- The century of the surgeon -- The Germans -- Medicine, bacteriology and infectious diseases -- The rise of medicine -- The new science -- The development of modern surgery -- Blood -- The structure of DNA -- Fleming, Florey and penicillin --Twentieth century medicine -- Cardiac surgery -- Critical care medicine and anesthesia -- Transplantation -- Psychiatry -- The economics of medicine.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [457]-470) and indexes.

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