Disease and Its Control: The Shaping of Modern Thought

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

Author: Robert Hudson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 07/20/1987
Pages: 276
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.42h x 6.46w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780275927790

About the Author

ROBERT P. HUDSON received his M.D. from the University of Kansas where he is currently Chairman of the Department of the History and Philosophy of Medicine.