The Medicine Book

by DK

Overview

Learn about astonishing medical breakthroughs and discoveries in The Medicine Book.

Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Medicine in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Medicine Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in.

This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Medicine, with:

- More than 100 ground-breaking ideas in this field of science
- Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts
- A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout
- Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understanding

The Medicine Book is a captivating introduction to the crucial breakthroughs in this science, aimed at adults with an interest in the subject and students wanting to gain more of an overview. Here you'll discover more than 90 amazing medical discoveries through exciting text and bold graphics.

Your Medical Questions, Simply Explained

This fresh new guide explores the discoveries that have shaped our modern-day understanding of medicine and helped us protect and promote our health. If you thought it was difficult to learn about the important milestones in medical history The Medicine Book presents key information in an easy to follow layout. Learn about medical science's response to new challenges - such as COVID-19, and ancient practices like herbal medicine and balancing the humors - through superb mind maps and step-by-step summaries.

The Big Ideas Series

With millions of copies sold worldwide, The Medicine Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780744044683
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	03/02/2021
Series:	DK Big Ideas
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	255,154
File size:	91 MB
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Table of Contents

Introduction 10

Ancient and Medieval Medicine Prehistory to 1600

A shaman to combat disease and death: Prehistoric medicine 18

A healer of one disease and no more: Ancient Egyptian medicine 20

The balance of the doshas is freedom from disease: Ayurvedic medicine 22

We rebuild what fortune has taken away: Plastic surgery 26

First, do no harm: Greek medicine 28

A body in balance: Traditional Chinese medicine 30

Nature itself is the best physician: Herbal medicine 36

To diagnose, one must observe and reason: Roman medicine 38

Know the causes of sickness and health: Islamic medicine 44

Learned, expert, ingenious, and able to adapt: Medieval medical schools and surgery 50

The vampire of medicine: Bloodletting and leeches 52

Wars have furthered the progress of the healing art: Battlefield medicine 53

The art of prescribing lies in nature: Pharmacy 54

Teach not from books but from dissections: Anatomy 60

The Scientific Body 1600-1820

The blood is driven into a round: Blood circulation 68

A disease known is half cured: Nosology 74

Hope of a good, speedy deliverance: Midwifery 76

The harvest of diseases reaped by workers: Occupational medicine 78

The peculiar circumstances of the patient: Case history 80

To restore the sick to health as speedily as possible: Hospitals 82

Great and unknown virtue in this fruit: Preventing scurvy 84

The bark of a tree is very efficacious: Aspirin 86

Surgery has become a science: Scientific surgery 88

The dangerously wounded must be tended first: Triage 90

A peculiarity in my vision: Color vision deficiency 91

No longer feared, but understood: Humane mental health care 92

Training the immune system: Vaccination 94

Like cures like: Homeopathy 102

To hear the beating of the heart: The stethoscope 103

Cells and Microbes 1820-1890

Let healthy blood leap into the sick man: Blood transfusion and blood groups 108

Soothing, quieting, and delightful beyond measure: Anesthesia 112

Wash your hands: Hygiene 118

Medicine needs men and women: Women in medicine 120

All cells come from cells: Histology 122

They mistook the smoke for the fire: Epidemiology 124

A hospital should do the sick no harm: Nursing and sanitation 128

Disturbances at the cellular level: Cellular pathology 134

Make yourselves masters of anatomy: Gray's Anatomy 136

One must replace the scarring tissue: Skin grafts 137

Life is at the mercy of these minute bodies: Germ theory 138

A genetic misprint: Inheritance and hereditary conditions 146

It is from particles that all the mischief arises: Antiseptics in surgery 148

The field of vital phenomena: Physiology 152

Defense against intruders: The immune system 154

A single mosquito bite is all it takes: Malaria 162

Vaccines, Serums, and Antibiotics 1890-1945

Solving the puzzle of cancer: Cancer therapy 168

The darker shadow of the bones: X-rays 176

Viruses are alpha predators: Virology 177

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious: Psychoanalysis 178

It must be a chemical reflex: Hormones and endocrinology 184

The action currents of the heart: Electrocardiography 188

Strings of flashing and traveling sparks: The nervous system 190

A peculiar disease of the cerebral cortex: Alzheimer's disease 196

Magic bullets: Targeted drug delivery 198

Unknown substances essential for life: Vitamins and diet 200

An invisible, antagonistic microbe: Bacteriophages and phage therapy 204

A weakened form of the germ: Attenuated vaccines 206

To imitate the action of the pancreas: Diabetes and its treatment 210

No woman is free who does not own her body: Birth control 214

Marvelous mold that saves lives: Antibiotics 216

New windows into the brain: Electroencephalography 224

Silent disease can be found early: Cancer screening 226

Global Health 1945-1970

We defend everyone's right to health: The World Health Organization 232

The artificial kidney can save a life: Dialysis 234

Nature's dramatic antidote: Steroids and cortisone 236

The quietening effect: Lithium and bipolar disorder 240

A psychic penicillin: Chlorpromazine and antipsychotics 241

Changing the way you think: Behavioral and cognitive therapy 242

A new diagnostic dimension: Ultrasound 244

All the cells had 47 chromosomes: Chromosomes and Down syndrome 245

Death becomes life: Transplant surgery 246

A promising but unruly molecule: Interferon 254

A sensation for the patient: Pacemakers 255

The center of our immune response: Lymphocytes and lymphatics 256

The power to decide: Hormonal contraception 258

Asking for proof of safety: The FDA and thalidomide 259

A return to function: Orthopedic surgery 260

Smoking kills: Tobacco and lung cancer 266

Help to live until you die: Palliative care 268

Genes and Technology 1970 Onward

Randomize till it hurts: Evidence-based medicine 276

Seeing inside the body: MRI and medical scanning 278

Antibodies on demand: Monoclonal antibodies 282

Nature could not, so we did: In vitro fertilization 284

Victory over smallpox: Global eradication of disease 286

Our fate lies in our genes: Genetics and medicine 288

This is everybody's problem: HIV and autoimmune diseases 294

A revolution through the keyhole: Minimally invasive surgery 298

The first glimpse of our own instruction book: The Human Genome Project 299

Fixing a broken gene: Gene therapy 300

The power of light: Laser eye surgery 301

Hope for new therapies: Stem cell research 302

Smaller is better: Nanomedicine 304

The barriers of space and distance have collapsed: Robotics and telesurgery 305

Public health enemy number one: Pandemics 306

To reprogram a cell: Regenerative medicine 314

This is my new face: Face transplants 315

Directory 316

Glossary 324

Index 328

Quote Attributions 335

Acknowledgments 336

Editorial Reviews

"This book, current enough to include information about COVID-19, is an excellent resource for both public libraries and home reference collections.” – Booklist

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