A Cultural History of Medicine, 9781350451643
Explore 2500 years of medicine, culture, and human understanding.

A Cultural History of Medicine

volumes 1-6

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  • Release Date

    16 October 2024

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Summary

The Pulse of the Past: A Cultural History of Medicine

How has our understanding of medicine evolved over the past 2,500 years? A Cultural History of Medicine offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of medicine’s cultural history from ancient times to modernity. This definitive reference work spans 2500 years of human history across six richly illustrated volumes.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9781350451643
ISBN-10:1350451649
Series:The Cultural Histories Series
Author:Roger Cooter, Sarah Phillips
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date:16 October 2024
Weight:3.20kg
Dimensions:246mm x 172mm x 82mm
About The Author

Roger Cooter

Roger Cooter is an independent scholar from the United States specializing in the history of medicine. He is the author of Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine (2013, with Claudia Stein), and the editor of In the Name of the Child: Health and Welfare, 1880 - 1940 (2011) and Medicine in the 20th Century (2014, with John Pickstone).

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