A non-technical, jargon-free presentation of the history of medicine from palaeopathology to recent theories and practices of modern medicine. It gives a wide-r
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize "A panoramic and perfectly magnificent intellectual history of medicine…This is the book that delivers it all." —
This text, written by members of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and first published in 1995, is designed to cover the history of western med