Disease and Its Control: The Shaping of Modern Thought

By Robert P. Hudson

Book Overview

This book is . . . a survey history of medicine from the earliest times, centered thematically on how changing concepts of disease have affected its management. . . . One finds a gratifying mastery of recent as well as classic scholarship in medical history and a careful sidestepping of positivistic excesses. . . . Disease and Its Control is a fresh and welcome synthesis of historical scholarship that will be accessible to interested laymen. Annals of Internal Medicine

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275927792
• ISBN13: 9780275927790
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 8.4"