Companion encyclopedia of the history of medicine / edited by W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The Art and Science of Medicine / Drs. Roy Porter and W.F.Bynum -- Section A. The Place of Medicine -- 2. What is Specific to Western Medicine Professor / Arthur Kleinman -- 3. The Historiography of Medicine Professor / Gert Brieger -- 4. Medical Care Professor / G. Risse -- 5. The Anatomical Tradition / Dr. R. French -- 6. The Microscopical Tradition / Dr. B. Bracegirdle -- 7. The Physiological Tradition / Dr. E. M. Tansey -- 8. The Biochemical Tradition / Dr. W. H. Brock -- 9. The Pathological Tradition / Professor R.C.Maulitz -- 10. The Immunological Tradition / Dr. P.Weindling -- 11. Clinical Research / Sir Christopher Booth -- Section C. Theories of Life, Health and Disease -- 12. The Concepts of Health, Illness, and Disease / Professor A.L.Caplan -- 13. Ideas of Life and Death / Professor W.R.Albury -- 14. Humoralism / Dr. V.Nutton -- 15. Environment /Miasmatism / Dr. C. Hannaway -- 16. Contagion /Germ Theory /Specificity / Miss M. Pelling -- 17. Nosology / Dr. W.F.Bynum -- 18. The Ecology of Disease / Professor K. Kiple -- 19. Fevers Professor / L. G. Wilson -- 20. Constitutional Disorders / Dr. Robert Olby -- 21. Mental Diseases / Professor Theodore Brown -- 22. Nutritional Diseases / Professor K. Carpenter -- 23. Endocrine Diseases / Professor R.B.Welbourn -- 24. Tropical Diseases / Dr. M. Worboys -- 25. Cancer / Dr. David Cantor -- 26. Venereal / Professor A. Brandt -- 27. Diseases of Civilization / Dr. Roy Porter -- Section D. Understanding Disease -- 28. Unorthodox Medical Theories / Professor Norman Gevitz -- 29. Non-Western Concepts of Disease / Dr. Murray Last -- 30. Folk Medicine / Mme F. Loux -- 31. Islamic Medicine / Dr. L. Conrad -- 32. Chinese Medicine / Professor F. Bray -- 33. Indian Medicine / Dr. D. Wujastyk -- 34. The History of the Doctor-Patient Relationship / Professor Edward Shorter -- 35. The Art of Diagnosis: Medicine and the Five Senses / Dr. Malcolm Nicolson -- 36. The Science of Diagnosis: Diagnostic Technology / Professor Stanley Reiser -- 37. History of Medical Ethics / Professor R. Baker -- 38. Women and Medicine / Dr. J. Geyer-Kordesch -- 39. Drug Therapies / Professor Miles Weatherall -- 40. Physical Methods / Professor H. Cook -- 41. Surgery (Traditional) / Dr. G. Lawrence -- 42. Surgery (Modern) / Prof. Dr. med. Ulrich Trohler -- 43. Psychotherapy / Professor Sander Gilman -- 44. Childbirth / Dr. Irvine Loudon -- 45. Childhood / Dr. D. Dwork -- 46. Geriatrics / Dr. P. Thane -- Section F. Medicine in Society -- 47. The History of the Medical Profession / Professor Toby Gelfand -- 48. Medical Education / Professor S. Lawrence -- 49. The Hospital / Dr. L.P. Granshaw -- 50. The Medical Institutions and the State / Dr. D. M. Fox -- 51. Public Health / Dr. Dorothy Porter -- 52. Epidemiology / Dr. Lise Wilkinson -- 53. History of Personal Hygiene / Dr. Andrew Wear -- 54. General History of Nursing (1800-1900) / Dr. C. Maggs -- 55. The Emergence of Para-Medical Professions / Professor Gerald Larkin -- 56. Psychiatry / Professor J. Goldstein -- 57. Health Economics: Finance, Budgeting and Insurance / Professor N. Bosanquet -- Section G. Medicine, Ideas and Culture -- 58. Medicine and Colonialism / Professor David Arnold -- 59. Internationalism in Medicine and Public Health / Professor Milton, I. Roemer -- 60. Medicine and Anthropology / Professor C. MacCormack -- 63. Medical Philanthropy after 1850 / Dr. W. F. Bynum -- 64. Medicine and Architecture / Dr. Christine Stevenson -- 65. Medicine and Literature / Dr. Michael Neve -- 66. Medicine and Modern War / Dr. Rogr Cooter -- 67. Pain and Suffering / Dr. Roy Porter -- 68. Medical Technologies: Social Contexts and Consequences / Professor Harry Marks -- 69. Medicine and the Law / Dr.C. Crawford -- 70. Medical Sociology / Dr. D. Armstrong -- 71. Demography and Medicine / Dr. Richard Smith -- 72. Medicine, Mortality and Morbidity / Professor Stephen Kunit.

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