The decline of therapeutic bloodletting and the collapse of traditional medicine / K. Codell Carter.

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2012], ©2012.

ix, 160 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bloodletting and inflammation -- Bloodletting and social norms -- Disease and causes of disease in early nineteenth century medical thought -- The early nineteenth century conception of quackery -- The Edinburgh bloodletting controversy -- Ignaz Semmelweis and the adoption of etiological concepts of disease -- The collapse of traditional medicine and the rise of medical science -- The current crisis in epidemiology.