The History of Medicine - Oneworld Publications

The History of Medicine

A Beginner's Guide

Mark Jackson

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Published in North America, Great Britain & Australia by Oneworld Publications, 2014

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For Ciara, Riordan and Conall

`A heart is what a heart can do.' Sir James Mackenzie, 1910

Contents

List of illustrations

viii

Preface

x

Introduction

xiii

1 Balance and flow: the ancient

world

1

2 Regimen and religion: medieval

medicine

25

3 Bodies and books: a medical

Renaissance?

50

4 Hospitals and hope: the

Enlightenment

84

5 Science and surgery: medicine in

the nineteenth century

120

6 War and welfare: the modern

world

159

Conclusion

197

Timeline

201

Further reading

214

Index

221

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