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The medicine book

eng

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The medicine book

From ancient medical practices, such as herbal medications and balancing the humours, through groundbreaking work including Jenner's experiments with cowpox, which laid the basis for vaccination, The Medicine Book offers an engaging overview of medical history across the world all the way into the 21st century with gene manipulation, immunotherapy, and robotics and telesurgery. Covering the role that therapies and drugs have played in the human quest to treat and prevent disease, the establishment of hospitals and later international medical bodies, like the WHO, and medical science's response to new challenges, such as accelerated antibiotic resistance and COVID-19, The Medicine Book explains the stories behind each milestone development

Introduction -- Ancient and medieval medicine, prehistory to 1600 -- The scientific body, 1600-1820 -- Cells and microbes, 1820-1890 -- Vaccines serums, and antibiotics, 1890-1945 -- Global health, 1945-1970 -- Genes and technology, 1970 onwards -- Directory -- Glossary -- Index -- Quote attributions -- Acknowledgements

Medicine book, big ideas simply explained