He charts the remarkable rise of modern medical science - the emergence of specialties such as anatomy, physiology, neurology, and bacteriology - as well as the accompanying development of wider medical practice at the bedside, in the hospital, and in the ambitious public health systems of the twentieth century. "Roy Porter explores medicine's evolution against the backdrop of the wider religious, scientific, philosophical, and political beliefs of the culture in which it develops, and he shows how our need to understand where diseases come from and what we can do to control them has - perhaps above all elseinspired developments in medicine through the ages. Introduction - The roots of medicine - Antiquity - Medicine and faith - The medieval west - Indian medicine - Chinese medicine - Renaissance - The new science - Enlightenment - Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century - Nineteenth-century medical care - Public medicine - From Pasteur to penicillin - Tropical medicine, world diseases - Psychiatry - Medical research - Clinical science - Surgery - Medicine, state and society - Medicine and the people - The past, the present and the future published with subtitle: A medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present
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