A history of medicine / Lois N. Magner.

Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2005.

xii, 611 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm

2nd ed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Paleopathology and paleomedicine -- Medicine in ancient civilizations: Mesopotamia and Egypt -- The medical traditions of India and China -- Greco-Roman medicine -- The middle ages -- The Renaissance and the scientific revolution -- Native civilizations and cultures of the Americas -- The Americanization of old world medicine -- Clinical and preventive medicine -- The medical counterculture: unorthodox and alternative medicine -- Women and medicine -- The art and science of surgery -- Medical microbiology and public health -- Diagnostics and therapeutics.