Western Medical Tradition: 1800-2000, The

Detailed and authoritative account of the last two centuries of the development of Western medicine, a tradition now important everywhere in the world. It is written by leading experts who not only describe the most important people, events, and transformations, but give explanations for why medicine developed as it did, becoming as important as it has in the modern world. It contains one of the first historical summaries of the development of medicine after the Second World War. It is an authoritative source of new information as well as a synthesis of the current state of knowledge on this fascinating subject. pp. xiii, 613 Illustrated #0416