Disease and Its Control: The Shaping of Modern Thought / Edition 2

by Robert P. Hudson

Overview

This book is . . . a survey history of medicine from the earliest times, centered thematically on how changing concepts of disease have affected its management. . . . One finds a gratifying mastery of recent as well as classic scholarship in medical history and a careful sidestepping of positivistic excesses. . . . Disease and Its Control is a fresh and welcome synthesis of historical scholarship that will be accessible to interested laymen. Annals of Internal Medicine

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275927790
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/20/1987
Series:	Contributions in Medical History Series
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

ROBERT P. HUDSON received his M.D. from the University of Kansas where he is currently Chairman of the Department of the History and Philosophy of Medicine.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations of Jourbanals
The Birth and Death of Diseases
Disease and History
Disease as Supernatural
Disease as Natural and Generalized
The Anatomical Idea
Disease as Localized
The Concept of Experimental Medicine
Specific Causation
Specific Prevention
Specific Therapy
Health, Disease, and Illness
Appendix: The Hippocratic Oath
Bibliography
Index