Chronicles the history of medicine, including the role of doctors, various attempts at controlling disease, and the progress of hospitals.

An authoritative and accessible illustrated introduction to medical history.

Examining discoveries and disasters, ideas, patients, and diseases in fields from anatomy to pharmacology to surgery, this is a highly accessible overview of medical history as ...

This book is an exploration of the attitudes towards, and treatments for, madness in the age before the mass asylum and the emergence of the psychiatric profession.

Beginning with early American medicine, the Armstrongs profile some of the best-known medical figures, divine healers, medicine men, reformers, and just plain quacks, and ...

W. F. Bynum argues that 'modern' medicine is built upon foundations established between 1800 and the beginning of World War I.

History of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns by describing the developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology.

An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical Age into an important medieval city and significant Renaissance urban center to a modern colossus--full of ...

"Starting with the grim Britain of the Civil War era, with its punishing sense of the body as a corrupt vessel for the soul, Roy Porter charts how, through figures as diverse ...