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The medicine book / contributors: Steve Parker, consultant editor, John Farndon, Tim Harris, Ben Hubbard, Philip Parker, and [1 other].
Examines the milestones of medical history across generations and cultures all over the world.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780744028362
- ISBN: 0744028361
- Physical Description: 336 pages : illustratons (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : DK, 2021.
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| General Note: | Includes index. |
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| Subject: | Medicine > History. |
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- 6 of 7 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Crawford County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crawford County Library-Steelville | 610.9 PAR (Text) | 33431000651354 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
The Medicine Book
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Table of Contents
The Medicine Book
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | p. 10 | |
| Ancient and Medieval Medicine Prehistory to 1600 | ||
| A shaman to combat disease and death: Prehistoric medicine | p. 18 | |
| A healer of one disease and no more: Ancient Egyptian medicine | p. 20 | |
| The balance of the doshas is freedom from disease: Ayurvedic medicine | p. 22 | |
| We rebuild what fortune has taken away: Plastic surgery | p. 26 | |
| First, do no harm: Greek medicine | p. 28 | |
| A body in balance: Traditional Chinese medicine | p. 30 | |
| Nature itself is the best physician: Herbal medicine | p. 36 | |
| To diagnose, one must observe and reason: Roman medicine | p. 38 | |
| Know the causes of sickness and health: Islamic medicine | p. 44 | |
| Learned, expert, ingenious, and able to adapt: Medieval medical schools and surgery | p. 50 | |
| The vampire of medicine: Bloodletting and leeches | p. 52 | |
| Wars have furthered the progress of the healing art: Battlefield medicine | p. 53 | |
| The art of prescribing lies in nature: Pharmacy | p. 54 | |
| Teach not from books but from dissections: Anatomy | p. 60 | |
| The Scientific Body 1600-1820 | ||
| The blood is driven into a round: Blood circulation | p. 68 | |
| A disease known is half cured: Nosology | p. 74 | |
| Hope of a good, speedy deliverance: Midwifery | p. 76 | |
| The harvest of diseases reaped by workers: Occupational medicine | p. 78 | |
| The peculiar circumstances of the patient: Case history | p. 80 | |
| To restore the sick to health as speedily as possible: Hospitals | p. 82 | |
| Great and unknown virtue in this fruit: Preventing scurvy | p. 84 | |
| The bark of a tree is very efficacious: Aspirin | p. 86 | |
| Surgery has become a science: Scientific surgery | p. 88 | |
| The dangerously wounded must be tended first: Triage | p. 90 | |
| A peculiarity in my vision: Color vision deficiency | p. 91 | |
| No longer feared, but understood: Humane mental health care | p. 92 | |
| Training the immune system: Vaccination | p. 94 | |
| Like cures like: Homeopathy | p. 102 | |
| To hear the beating of the heart: The stethoscope | p. 103 | |
| Cells and Microbes 1820-1890 | ||
| Let healthy blood leap into the sick man: Blood transfusion and blood groups | p. 108 | |
| Soothing, quieting, and delightful beyond measure: Anesthesia | p. 112 | |
| Wash your hands: Hygiene | p. 118 | |
| Medicine needs men and women: Women in medicine | p. 120 | |
| All cells come from cells: Histology | p. 122 | |
| They mistook the smoke for the fire: Epidemiology | p. 124 | |
| A hospital should do the sick no harm: Nursing and sanitation | p. 128 | |
| Disturbances at the cellular level: Cellular pathology | p. 134 | |
| Make yourselves masters of anatomy: Gray's Anatomy | p. 136 | |
| One must replace the scarring tissue: Skin grafts | p. 137 | |
| Life is at the mercy of these minute bodies: Germ theory | p. 138 | |
| A genetic misprint: Inheritance and hereditary conditions | p. 146 | |
| It is from particles that all the mischief arises: Antiseptics in surgery | p. 148 | |
| The field of vital phenomena: Physiology | p. 152 | |
| Defense against intruders: The immune system | p. 154 | |
| A single mosquito bite is all it takes: Malaria | p. 162 | |
| Vaccines, Serums, and Antibiotics 1890-1945 | ||
| Solving the puzzle of cancer: Cancer therapy | p. 168 | |
| The darker shadow of the bones: X-rays | p. 176 | |
| Viruses are alpha predators: Virology | p. 177 | |
| Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious: Psychoanalysis | p. 178 | |
| It must be a chemical reflex: Hormones and endocrinology | p. 184 | |
| The action currents of the heart: Electrocardiography | p. 188 | |
| Strings of flashing and traveling sparks: The nervous system | p. 190 | |
| A peculiar disease of the cerebral cortex: Alzheimer's disease | p. 196 | |
| Magic bullets: Targeted drug delivery | p. 198 | |
| Unknown substances essential for life: Vitamins and diet | p. 200 | |
| An invisible, antagonistic microbe: Bacteriophages and phage therapy | p. 204 | |
| A weakened form of the germ: Attenuated vaccines | p. 206 | |
| To imitate the action of the pancreas: Diabetes and its treatment | p. 210 | |
| No woman is free who does not own her body: Birth control | p. 214 | |
| Marvelous mold that saves lives: Antibiotics | p. 216 | |
| New windows into the brain: Electroencephalography | p. 224 | |
| Silent disease can be found early: Cancer screening | p. 226 | |
| Global Health 1945-1970 | ||
| We defend everyone's right to health: The World Health Organization | p. 232 | |
| The artificial kidney can save a life: Dialysis | p. 234 | |
| Nature's dramatic antidote: Steroids and cortisone | p. 236 | |
| The quietening effect: Lithium and bipolar disorder | p. 240 | |
| A psychic penicillin: Chlorpromazine and antipsychotics | p. 241 | |
| Changing the way you think: Behavioral and cognitive therapy | p. 242 | |
| A new diagnostic dimension: Ultrasound | p. 244 | |
| All the cells had 47 chromosomes: Chromosomes and Down syndrome | p. 245 | |
| Death becomes life: Transplant surgery | p. 246 | |
| A promising but unruly molecule: Interferon | p. 254 | |
| A sensation for the patient: Pacemakers | p. 255 | |
| The center of our immune response: Lymphocytes and lymphatics | p. 256 | |
| The power to decide: Hormonal contraception | p. 258 | |
| Asking for proof of safety: The FDA and thalidomide | p. 259 | |
| A return to function: Orthopedic surgery | p. 260 | |
| Smoking kills: Tobacco and lung cancer | p. 266 | |
| Help to live until you die: Palliative care | p. 268 | |
| Genes and Technology 1970 Onward | ||
| Randomize till it hurts: Evidence-based medicine | p. 276 | |
| Seeing inside the body: MRI and medical scanning | p. 278 | |
| Antibodies on demand: Monoclonal antibodies | p. 282 | |
| Nature could not, so we did: In vitro fertilization | p. 284 | |
| Victory over smallpox: Global eradication of disease | p. 286 | |
| Our fate lies in our genes: Genetics and medicine | p. 288 | |
| This is everybody's problem: HIV and autoimmune diseases | p. 294 | |
| A revolution through the keyhole: Minimally invasive surgery | p. 298 | |
| The first glimpse of our own instruction book: The Human Genome Project | p. 299 | |
| Fixing a broken gene: Gene therapy | p. 300 | |
| The power of light: Laser eye surgery | p. 301 | |
| Hope for new therapies: Stem cell research | p. 302 | |
| Smaller is better: Nanomedicine | p. 304 | |
| The barriers of space and distance have collapsed: Robotics and telesurgery | p. 305 | |
| Public health enemy number one: Pandemics | p. 306 | |
| To reprogram a cell: Regenerative medicine | p. 314 | |
| This is my new face: Face transplants | p. 315 | |
| Directory | p. 316 | |
| Glossary | p. 324 | |
| Index | p. 328 | |
| Quote Attributions | p. 335 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 336 |
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