The Medicine of the People: A history of popular medicine before the National Health Service

by Allan Chapman

So much research in the history of medicine has been devoted to the development of medicine as a progressive science. The Medicine of the People, however, looks at the medical perceptions of lay people over the last four centuries. Lying at the heart of these perceptions is a set of ideas first formulated by Hippocrates, Aristotle and other ancient Greek physicians, which tried to understand illness in terms of vital properties. These included...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0852449313
• ISBN13: 9780852449318
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Gracewing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"