Sources in the history of medicine : the impact of disease and trauma / edited by Robin L. Anderson.

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, [2007], ©2007.

xiv, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Paleopathology and primitive medicine -- The Middle East in antiquity -- China and India in antiquity -- Greece -- Rome and Byzantium -- Europe, 500-1500 -- Medicine in the Muslim world and the Americas, 700-1500 -- The Renaissance and the scientific revolution: technical and theoretical change -- Europe, 1500-1800: health, disease, trauma, and society -- The nineteenth century: the development and spread of Western medicine -- The nineteenth century: change and upheaval -- The twentieth century: advances and challenges -- The twentieth century: new enemies, old nemeses -- A brave new century: dilemmas in twenty-first-century medicine.

Includes bibliographical references.