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A brief history of disease, science, and medicine : from the Ice Age to the Genome Project
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A brief history of disease, science, and medicine : from the Ice Age to the Genome Project

Author: Michael Kennedy
Publisher: Cranston, R.I. : Writers' Collective, ©2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Kennedy
ISBN: 1932133593 9781932133592 0974946648 9780974946641
OCLC Number: 51936827
Description: vii, 510 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: In the beginning --
The beginning of history --
Classical Greece and Rome --
India and China --
The rise of Islam and Arabic medicine --
The Middle Ages --
The beginning of modern science --
The Enlightenment and medicine --
The century of the surgeon --
The Germans --
Medicine, bacteriology and infectious diseases --
The rise of medicine --
The new science --
The development of modern surgery --
Blood --
The structure of DNA --
Fleming, Florey and penicillin --
Twentieth century medicine --
Cardiac surgery --
Critical care medicine and anesthesia --
Transplantation --
Psychiatry --
The economics of medicine --
Postscript.
Responsibility: by Michael Kennedy.
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