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History of Medicine
A Scandalously Short Introduction
Duffin, Jacalyn Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada
Year Published: 1999
Pages: 432pp Price: $24.95 ISBN: 0-8020-7912-1
Library of Congress Number: R131.D83 1999 Dewey: 610'.9
Resource Type: Book
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Table of Contents
Illustrations, Tables, Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Heroes and Villains in the History of Medicine
2. The Fabricated Body: History of Anatomy
3. Interrogating Life: History of Physiology
4. Science of Suffering: History of Pathology
5. First Do No Harm: History of Pharmacology
6. On Being a Doctor: History of Health-Care Delivery
7. Plagues and Peoples: Epidemic Diseases in History
8. Why is Blood Special? Changing Concepts of a Vital Humour
9. Technology and Disease: The Stethoscope and Physical Diagnosis
10. Work of the Hand: History of Surgery
11. Women's Medicine and Medicine's Women: History of Obstetrics and Gynecology
12. Wrestling with Demons: History of Psychiatry
13. No Baby, No Nation: History of Pediatrics
14. A Many-Faceted Gem: Decline and Rebirth of Family Medicine
15. Sleuthing and Science: How to Research a Question in Medical History
Appendix A: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901-1998
Appendix B: Resources and Research Tools for the History of Medicine
1. Important Library Catalogues
2. Print Tools: Bibliographic Guides to the History of Medicine
3. Specific Periods in Western Medicine
4. Non-Western and Alternative Medicines and Their Interfaces
5. Some Online Resources for History of Medicine
Appendix C: Educational Objectives of this Book
Index
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