Kill or Cure: An Illustrated History of Medicine

by Steve Parker

Overview

Kill or Cure, a lavishly illustrated new history from DK, recounts the quest of doctors and scientists through the ages to tame and conquer mankind's ever-enduring enemies: disease, injury, and death. Sometimes misguided, sometimes inspired, always doggedly determined, the great scientific minds of every generation have battled the unknown within our bodies, developing potions, drugs, and therapies in a quest to heal and cure.

Beginning with early healers, chance discoveries, technological advancement, and "wonder" drugs, and using panels, timelines, and thematic spreads, Kill or Cure highlights information about human anatomy, surgical instruments, and medical breakthroughs while telling the dramatic tale of medical progress. Diaries, notebooks, and other first-person accounts tell the fascinating stories from the perspective of people who witnessed medical history firsthand. Packed with photographs, diagrams, and visual explanations, Kill or Cure tells the extraordinary tale of medicine through the ages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781465419484
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	11/01/2013
Series:	DK Short Histories
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	743,023
File size:	241 MB
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About the Author

Steve Parker is a writer, editor, and consultant specializing in general science and life sciences. He graduated with BSc Honours First Class and is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Steve has written more than 250 books, including The Human Body, Eyewitness Medicine, Eyewitness Human Body and Medicine. He has been shortlisted for prizes ranging from BBC Blue Peter Book of the Year to Times Educational Supplement Information Book of the Year and the Rhône-Poulenc Prize, and won the 2014 BMA Board of Science Award for the Public Understanding of Science, and as of 2018 is a two-time winner of the School Library Information Book award.

Table of Contents

Introduction 8

Beliefs and Traditions to 900 12

Prehistoric Medicine 14

Trepanning 20

The Priest-Physicians of Egypt 22

Surgery in Ancient Egypt 28

Hippocrates and Greek Medicine 30

Galen and the Rule of Rome 40

Roman Surgical Tools 46

The Dark Ages in Europe 48

The Bubonic Plague 54

The Alchemists 56

Traditional Eastern Medicine 64

Ayurveda 74

Native American Medicine 82

Shamanism 88

African and West Asian Traditions 90

The Rise of Scientific Medicine 900-1820 98

Al Rhazi, Ibn Sina, and the Arab Revival 100

The Four Humors 106

Schools of Medicine and Life 108

Vesalius and the Anatomists 116

Paré and the Barber-Surgeons 126

Bloodletting 132

Harvey and Blood Circulation 134

The Microscope Revolution 144

Early Microscopes 150

Conquering the Dreaded Pox 152

Eradicating Smallpox 160

Medicine in the Industrial Age 1820-1920 162

Women in Medicine 164

Anesthesia 172

Early Anesthetics 178

John Snow and Epidemiology 180

Florence Nightingale 188

Measuring Blood Pressure 194

Pasteur and Microbiology 196

The Horror of Rabies 204

Lister and Antiseptics 206

Mother and Baby Medicine 214

The Germ Theory of Disease 222

Viruses in Action 228

Medicine and the Mind 230

Modern Medicine 1920-2000 240

Blood Groups and the Sugar Disease 242

Receiving Blood 250

The First Antibiotic 252

Antibiotics at Work 258

The Fight Against Cancer 260

Deadly Cells 268

New Parts for Old 270

Implants and Prostheses 276

Medicine and Care for the Elderly 278

Vaccination Comes of Age 286

How Immunization Works 292

The First Transplants 294

A New Heart 300

Imaging the Body 302

Seeing Inside the Body 310

The Birth of IVF 312

Complementary and Alternative Medicines 320

Potential Pandemics 328

Battling HIV and AIDS 334

Genes and Future Dreams 2000-Present 336

Genetics and Medicine 338

The Genetic Code 348

Robots and Telemedicine 350

Emergency Medicine 356

A Shock to the System 362

Stem Cell Therapy 364

Dignity and Death 374

Medicine in the Third Millennium 382

Mosquito-borne Malaria 388

Glossary 390

Bibliography 392

Index 393

Acknowledgments 398