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This fabulous anthology is sure to be a core text for history of medicine and social science classes in colleges across the country. In order to demonstrate how medical research has influenced Western cultural perspectives, the editors have collected original works from 61 different authors around nine major themes.

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1 The Human Form Divine
Part 2 The Body Secularized
Part 3 Anatomy and Destiny
Part 4 Psyche and Soma
Part 5 The Contaminated and the Pure
Part 6 The Healer
Part 7 The Experimenter
Part 8 The Institutionalization of Doctors and Patients
Part 9 The Construction of Pain, Suffering, and Death
Index

Medicine and Western Civilization

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    A Paperback / softback by David J. Rothman, Steven Marcus, Stephanie Kiceluk

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      Publisher: Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/12/1995
      ISBN13: 9780813521909, 978-0813521909
      ISBN10: 0813521904

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This fabulous anthology is sure to be a core text for history of medicine and social science classes in colleges across the country. In order to demonstrate how medical research has influenced Western cultural perspectives, the editors have collected original works from 61 different authors around nine major themes.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction
      Part 1 The Human Form Divine
      Part 2 The Body Secularized
      Part 3 Anatomy and Destiny
      Part 4 Psyche and Soma
      Part 5 The Contaminated and the Pure
      Part 6 The Healer
      Part 7 The Experimenter
      Part 8 The Institutionalization of Doctors and Patients
      Part 9 The Construction of Pain, Suffering, and Death
      Index

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