Making of Modern Medicine - Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease

Zusammenfassung Focusing on a few key moments in the transformation of medical care! the author reveals the way that new discoveries and new approaches led doctors and patients alike to discard fatalism and their traditional religious acceptance of suffering in favor of a new faith in health care and in the capacity of doctors to treat disease.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Bliss, Bliss Michael
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2011
• EAN: 9780226059013
• ISBN: 978-0-226-05901-3
• No. of pages: 112
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Biographies, autobiographies; MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Biography: science, technology and medicine, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (inc Patients)