The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC to AD 1800

by Michael Neve, Vivian Nutton, Lawrence I. Conrad

Book Overview

The influence of Greek medical practices dating back to the fifth century B.C. has had an immeasurable impact on the development of medicine in the West over the subsequent centuries. This text is designed to cover the history of Western medicine from Classical Antiquity to 1800. As one guiding thread it takes the system of medical ideas that, in large part, went back to the Greeks of the fifth century B.C., and played a major role in the understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521475643
• ISBN13: 9780521475648
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 574 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"