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A Short History of Medicine by Modern Library
In this lively, learned, and wholly engrossing volume, F. Gonzalez-Crussi presents a brief yet authoritative five-hundred-year history of the science, the philosophy, and the controversies of modern medicine. While this illuminating work mainly explores Western medicine over the past five centuries, Gonzalez-Crussi also describes how modern medicine's roots extend to both Greco-Roman antiquity and Eastern medical traditions. Covered here in engaging detail are the birth of anatomy and the practice of dissections the transformation of surgery from a gruesome art to a sophisticated medical specialty a short history of infectious diseases the evolution of the diagnostic process advances in obstetrics and anesthesia and modern psychiatric thera
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The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by James Le Fanu
An appraisal of the science, philosophy and politics of modern medicine. The author argues that, whilst the scope of medicine is immeasurably greater than it was half a century ago, the optimism generated by its advances seems to have evaporated: medicine is doing better but feeling worse.
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