Decline of Therapeutic Bloodletting and the Collapse of Traditional - Medicin

Over the course of a single generation, without significant discussion or debate, a key practice of traditional medicine was almost completely abandoned in mid-nineteenth-century Europe

List of contents

Preface, Introduction, 1 Bloodletting and Inflammation, 2 Bloodletting and Social Norms, 3 Disease and Causes of Disease in Early Nineteenth-Century Medical Th ought, 4 Th e Early Nineteenth-Century Conception of Quackery, 5 Th e Edinburgh Bloodletting Controversy, 6 Ignaz Semmelweis and the Adoption of Etiological Concepts of Disease, 7 Th e Collapse of Traditional Medicine and the Rise of Medical Science, 8 Th e Current Crisis in Epidemiology, References, Index

About the author

K. Codell Carter

Summary

Over the course of a single generation, without significant discussion or debate, a key practice of traditional medicine was almost completely abandoned in mid-nineteenth-century Europe

Product details

• Authors: K Codell Carter, K. Codell Carter
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.09.2017
• EAN: 9781138515680
• ISBN: 978-1-138-51568-0
• No. of pages: 169
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine