The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity

图书信息

作者	Roy Porter
出版社	HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN	9780007385546
出版时间	2017-03-23
字数	180.8万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,科技,医学

读书简介

Roy Porter is Professor of the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. He is the editor of the Fontana History of Science series, and the author of over sixty-five books, including the acclaimed bestseller ‘London: A Social History’. His book on the history of madness in England, ‘Mind Forg’d Manacles’, won the Leo Gershoy Prize.

目录

Title Page

Copyright

Praise

Dedication

Contents

I: Introduction

II: The Roots of Medicine

III: Antiquity

IV: Medicine and Faith

V: The Medieval West

VI: Indian Medicine

VII: Chinese Medicine

VIII: Renaissance

IX: The New Science

X: Enlightenment

XI: Scientific Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

XII: Nineteenth-Century Medical Care

XIII: Public Medicine

XIV: From Pasteur to Penicillin

XV: Tropical Medicine, World Diseases

XVI: Psychiatry

XVII: Medical Research

XVIII: Clinical Science

XIX: Surgery

XX: Medicine, State and Society

XXI: Medicine and the People

XXII: The Past, the Present and the Future

Further Reading

Index

Acknowledgements

About the Author

About the Publisher