A Cultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:9th Feb '23
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Athematic overview of the cultural history of medicine from 1920 to the present day.
A Cultural History of Medicine presents anauthoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumescovers over 2500 years of history, charting the changes in medical experience,knowledge and practices throughout history.
This volume, ACultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age, explores medicine as acultural practice from 1920 to the present day. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Medicineset, this volume presents essays on the environment, food, war, animals, objects,experiences, authority and the mind.
A Cultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age is the most authoritative andcomprehensive survey available on medicine in the modern period.
[T]hese six volumes have taught us a great deal about cultural history from prehistory to the present … [A] great deal of profound and innovative knowledge is presented clearly. I therefore recommend every medical historian or healthcare professional to purchase this series in its entirety. After all, one cannot understand the present without knowledge of the past. * Kleio-Historia *
ISBN: 9781472569882
Dimensions: 248mm x 174mm x 18mm
Weight: 620g
248 pages