We have updated our Privacy Policy Please take a moment to review it. By continuing to use this site, you agree to the terms of our updated Privacy Policy.

A Brief History of Medicine

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781845291556

Price: £12.99

ON SALE: 23rd June 2005

Genre: Medicine / Medicine: General Issues / History Of Medicine

Disclosure: If you buy products using the retailer buttons above, we may earn a commission from the retailers you visit.

Paul Strathern follows the development of medicine through the lives of its greatest practitioners, whose discoveries (and errors) shaped the course of medical history. Includes geniuses, such as Paracelsus, the father of medical chemistry, and Edward Jenner, whose vaccination banished smallpox, scientific endeavour, such as the discovery of X-rays, and mistakes both


fortunate and fatal. With grave robbing, plague and germ theory, quackery, nursing, syphilis, micro-organisms and penicillin along the way, this is the ultimate story of human —


and humane — achievement.

What's Inside

Read More Read Less