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The Beginning of Change (Bk. 2) (Medicine Through Time)

By Schools Council History Project: 13-16

The Beginning of Change (Bk. 2) (Medicine Through Time) Books

The Beginning of Change (Bk. 2) (Medicine Through Time)

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Taking a topic which interests girls and boys equally, three Medicine Through Time books present the complex problems of change, continuity and historical development. They examine the role which warfare, technology, great men and women and many other factors have played in stimulating or inhibiting changes in medicine. Topics covered in this particular book are: 1. Medicine in the Middle Ages: The training of a mediaeval physician; Medical ideas in the late middle ages; Changes in Europe 400-1100A.D.; Medicine in the early middle ages 400-1100AD; Medicine in the later middle ages; The mediaeval physician at work; The importance of health; The diagnosis of disease; The cause of disease and its treatment; Surgery in the middle ages; Health and hygiene in the middle ages; The mediaeval monastery; The mediaeval town; Disease and epidemics in the middle ages; 2. The Medical Renaissance: The Renaissance; The rebirth of science; The Renaissance and Medicine; Andreas Vesalius and the revolution in anatomy; Ambroise Paré and changes in surgery; William Harvey and the new physiology; From Galen to William Harvey; William Harvey; Harvey and the circulation of the blood; The achievement of Harvey; Remedies and treatment; The Great Plague, 1665; The Death of Charles II; Glossary
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
48
Release Date:
1976-09-01
Publication Date:
1976-09-01
Publisher:
HarperCollins Distribution Services
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0715715844
Weight:
142 g
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