Animals and Disease: An Introduction to the History of Comparative Medicine

by Lise Wilkinson

Book Overview

Man's attempts to learn about aspects of the human body and its functions by observation and study of animals are to be found throughout history, especially at times and in cultures where the human body was considered sacrosanct, even after death. This book describes the origins and later development, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of comparative medicine and its interrelationship with medicine and veterinary medicine and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521018447
• ISBN13: 9780521018449
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"