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| Author(s): | W. Bynum |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN: | 9780199215430 |
| Format: | softback |
| 169pp | |
| Price: | £7.99 |
| Review Date: | 23 July 2008 |
| Review: | This is the latest in the pocketbook series of OUP’s short introductions to topics. It gives the history of medicine since the ancient Greeks established the ‘Western medicine tradition’. The history is followed through the various types of medicines from Hippocrates to World War I: at the bedside; in the library; in the hospital; in the community; and in the laboratory. The last chapter looks at medicine in the last century and in the modern world. |