The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC to AD 1800
Lawrence I. Conrad, Michael Neve, Vivian Nutton, Roy Porter, Andrew Wear

The quintessential medical history, this book surveys Western medical tradition from the Greeks through the 1800s. Century by century, it describes once-common diseases, medical theories, and medical therapies, placing them in a wide social context. Discussions of religious and alternative healing are interspersed with those about the major advances in medicine, surgery, and pharmacology. This well-researched and well-written book includes historical timelines interwoven with major events in medicine.

Softcover, 556 pp.
# 00261B $39.95