A brief history of medicine : from Hippocrates to gene therapy

摘要: The foundations for the scientific study of body and modern Western medicine as we know it started with William Harvey's discovery circulatory system in early 17th century. But its roots stretch back far ancient Greece, when first departed from divine mystical moved toward observation logic. Its development was slow, constrained by taboo around dissection (only external symptoms could be used diagnosis), well superstition mysticism (illness work demons pixies curable only penitence). Paul Strathern steers us skillfully through maze discoveries, diseases, wrong turns that have made what is todaysuper efficient, high tech, increasingly costly. A Brief History Medicine offers an accessible history arguments, missteps, dumb luck led to world's most important medical breakthroughsfrom anatomy, grave robbing, plague, germ theory vaccination, quackery, microorganisms, penicillin.