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The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity / Roy Porter.

By: Porter, Roy, 1946-2002Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 1999Description: xvi, 831 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0393319806 (pbk.); 9780393319804 (pbk.)Subject(s): Medicine -- History | Social medicine -- History | Geneeskunde | Socialmedicin -- historia | Medicinhistoria | მედიცინა | მედიცინის ისტორია | სოციალური მედიცინაDDC classification: 610.9 Other classification: 44.01 | Vna:k
Contents:
Introduction -- The roots of medicine -- Antiquity -- Medicine and faith -- The medieval West -- Indian medicine -- Chinese medicine -- Renaissance -- The new science -- Enlightenment -- Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century -- Nineteenth-century medical care -- Public medicine -- From Pasteur to penicillin -- Tropical medicine, world diseases -- Psychiatry -- Medical research -- Clinical science -- Surgery -- Medicine, state and society -- Medicine and the people -- The past, the present and the future.
Kapitel 15, "Tropical medicine, world diseases", behandlar bl.a. Nobelpristagare Ronald Ross.
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Originally published in England under the title The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 719-764) and index.

Introduction -- The roots of medicine -- Antiquity -- Medicine and faith -- The medieval West -- Indian medicine -- Chinese medicine -- Renaissance -- The new science -- Enlightenment -- Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century -- Nineteenth-century medical care -- Public medicine -- From Pasteur to penicillin -- Tropical medicine, world diseases -- Psychiatry -- Medical research -- Clinical science -- Surgery -- Medicine, state and society -- Medicine and the people -- The past, the present and the future.

Kapitel 15, "Tropical medicine, world diseases", behandlar bl.a. Nobelpristagare Ronald Ross.

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