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Synopsis

This illustrated history of medicine examines through popular and professional perception the history and interrelation of disease, health and medicine over more than 2000 years. Readers can trace the chronological story of key developments and events in medical history from antiquity onwards, while at the same time engaging with the issues, discoveries and controversies that have beset and characterized medical progress. The book weaves a connected narrative that gives equal weight to disease and to doctors, to scientific medicine and to society, to patients and to practitioners. An important feature of the volume is its extensive coverage of the past 150 years - a critical era in the development of medicine. It also offers glimpses into the future. There is good colour illustration and added reference material.