History of Medicine

Jacalyn Duffin is a haematologist and historian who is Professor in the Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine at Queen's University.

Contents Illustrations Tables Acknowledgments Preface to the Second Edition 1. Introduction: Heroes and Villains in the History of Medicine 2. The Fabricated Body: History of Anatomy 3. Interrogating Life: History of Physiology 4. Science of Suffering: History of Pathology 5. First Do No Harm: History of Treatment, Pharmacology, and Pharmaceuticals 6. On Becoming and Being a Doctor: Education, Licensing, Payment, and Bioethics 7. Plagues and Peoples: Epidemic Diseases in History 8. Why Is Blood Special? Changing Concepts of a Vital Humour 9. Technology and Disease: Stethoscopes, Hospitals, and Other Gadgets 10. Work of the Hand: History of Surgery 11. Women's Medicine and Medicine's Women: History of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women 12. Wrestling with Demons: History of Psychiatry 13. No Baby, No Nation: History of Pediatrics 14. A Many-Faceted Gem: Decline and Rebirth of Family Medicine 15. When the Patient is Plural: Public and International Health 16. Sleuthing and Science: How to Research a Question in Medical History Appendix A: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1901-2008 Appendix B: Resources and Research Tools for the History of Medicine * Important Libraries * Bibliographic Guides to the History of Medicine * Specific Periods in Western Medicine * Non-Western and Alternative Medicines and Their Interfaces * Some Associations, Institutes, and Museums for History of Medicine Appendix C: Learning Objectives of This Book Index