Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine (Volume 1 & 2)

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright CONTENTS Notes on contributors Note to the reader Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The art and science of medicine Part I The place of medicine 2 What is specific to Western medicine? 3 The historiography of medicine 4 Medical care Part II Body systems 5 The anatomical tradition 6 The microscopical tradition 7 The physiological tradition 8 The biochemical tradition 9 The pathological tradition 10 The immunological tradition 11 Clinical research Part III Theories of life, health, and disease 12 The concepts of health, illness, and disease 13 Ideas of life and death 14 Humoralism 15 Environment and miasmata 16 Contagion/germ theory/specificity 17 Nosology 18 The ecology of disease 19 Fevers 20 Constitutional and hereditary disorders 21 Mental diseases 22 Nutritional diseases 23 Endocrine diseases 24 Tropical diseases 25 Cancer 26 Sexually transmitted diseases 27 Diseases of civilization Part IV Understanding disease 28 Unorthodox medical theories 29 Non-Western concepts of disease 30 Folk medicine 31 Arab-Islamic medicine 32 Chinese medicine 33 Indian medicine Part V Clinical medicine 34 The history of the doctor-patient relationship 35 The art of diagnosis: medicine and the five senses 36 The science of diagnosis: diagnostic technology 37 The history of medical ethics 38 Women and medicine 39 Drug therapies 40 Physical methods 41 Surgery (traditional) 42 Surgery (modem) 43 Psychotherapy 44 Childbirth 45 Childhood 46 Geriatrics Part VI Medicine in society 47 The history of the medical profession 48 Medical education 49 The hospital 50 The medical institutions and the state 51 Public health 52 Epidemiology 53 The history of personal hygiene 54 A general history of nursing: 1800-1900 55 The emergence of para-medical professions 56 Psychiatry 57 Health economics: finance, budgeting, and insurance Part VII Medicine, ideas, and culture 58 Medicine and colonialism 59 Internationalism in medicine and public health 60 Medicine and anthropology 61 Religion and medicine 62 Charity before c.1850 63 Medical philanthropy after 1850 64 Medicine and architecture 65 Medicine and literature 66 War and modern medicine 67 Pain and suffering 68 Medical technologies: social contexts and consequences 69 Medicine and the law 70 Medical sociology 71 Demography and medicine 72 Medicine, mortality, and morbidity Index