Medicine and Western Civilization
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
| Country | USA | 
| Brand | Bloomsbury Academic | 
| Manufacturer | Praeger | 
| Binding | Paperback | 
| ItemPartNumber | black & white illustrations | 
| ReleaseDate | 1987-07-20 | 
| UnitCount | 1 | 
| EANs | 9780275927790 |