Format:
166 Seiten
Edition:
First published
ISBN:
0415278163
,
0415278171
Series Statement:
Themes in world history
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Sickness and health, a global concern -- Before the advent of acute epidemic diseases: pharaonic Egypt and the preconquest New World: extinct societies -- Pluralism in ancient Greece -- The evolution of medical systems in the Middle East c. 632 CE to modern times -- Health and healing on the Indian subcontinent before 1869 -- Medicine and disease in China: concepts and practices from c. 1900 BCE to 1840 CE -- The globalization of disease after 1450 -- Medicine and disease in the West, 1054-1840 -- The birth of modern scientific medicine: the German lands contrasted with the United Kingdom and the British in India -- Health and medicine in the world, 1940 to the present
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Watts, Sheldon J. Disease and medicine in world history New York : Routledge, 2003 ISBN 0415278163
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0415278171
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Medicine
Keywords:
Medizin
;
Geschichte
;
Medizin
;
Geschichte
