Author: DOBSON, MARY J
Title: The story of medicine: from bloodletting to biotechnology / Mary Dobson
Description: New York: Quercus 2013. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 239 pages: illustrations (some color); 29 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (page 235) and index. Contents; Concepts and theories of disease -- Bad blood and bad airs -- Bones and bodies -- Germs and genes -- Practitioners and patients -- Physicians and healers -- Hospitals and nursing care -- Barbers and surgeons -- Tooth-drawers and dentists -- Treatments and therapies -- Bloodletting and purging -- Opium. morphine. and heroin -- Pharmacy and patent medicines -- Complementary and alternative medicine -- Modern medicines and vaccines -- New drugs from old remedies -- Magic bullets and blockbuster drugs -- Testing treatments and clinical trials -- Vaccination and preventive medicine. Subject; Medicine - History. Weight in Kg appr.:

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