Disease and Its Control: The Shaping of Modern Thought

Disease and Its Control: The Shaping of Modern Thought

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Publisher's Synopsis

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

Book information

ISBN: 9780275927790
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Imprint: Praeger
Pub date:
Number of pages: 276
Weight: 430g
Height: 154mm
Width: 229mm
Spine width: 17mm