{"product_id":"physicians-plagues-and-progress-9780745970394","title":"Physicians Plagues and Progress","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating and adventurous insight into the origin and development of medicine and surgery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Using clarity of structure and a warm, engaging style, Allan Chapman brings us an elegant and accessible new introduction to the history of Western medicine.\" - Caroline Rance\u003cbr\u003e\"This is medical history for the layman - and very good it is, too. Chapman's coverage is, as we have come to expect, comprehensive, covering everything that has contributed to the knowledge and treatment of physical and mental disorders. Highly recommended.\" - Derek Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\"This thoroughly enjoyable book provides a comprehensive and highly compelling account of the way in which the pioneers of western medicine have, with equal measures of luck and judgement, driven its development from what was once no more than glorified sorcery to its current place as an established cutting edge science.\" - Dr Simon Atkins\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a fascinating and comprehensive tour of the history of medicine and health care from prehistory to the modern world. This detailed overview of thousands of years of medical history is constantly brought to life through fascinating and arresting examples. It also reveals the complex interaction of different religious and scientific concepts and outlooks across time, and the role of technological advance in making progress possible. In each stage of the development of medical practice we are led to see how it interacted with the wider social context of the time and the mind-sets of those involved. Fast-paced, insightful and engaging.\" - Martyn Whittock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of illustrations XVII\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments XXI\u003cbr\u003ePreface XXVI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1 Physicians, Priests, and Folk Healers 1\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAncient doctors 2\u003cbr\u003eMedicine in Egypt and other ancient cultures 5\u003cbr\u003eMoses and the lepers: A saga from Sinai to Scandinavia 9\u003cbr\u003eHippocrates of Cos: Rational medicine, ethics, and the Oath\u003cbr\u003eof c. 430 BC 12\u003cbr\u003eAristotle (384–322 BC) and the nature of living things 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2 Galen: Surgeon to the Gladiators 19\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAelius Claudius Galenus of Pergamum: Surgeon, showman,\u003cbr\u003eand public anatomist, AD 129–200\/216 20\u003cbr\u003eGalen the anatomist and physiologist 22\u003cbr\u003eGalen’s physiology 24\u003cbr\u003eRoman surgery 27\u003cbr\u003eCelsus and his Encyclopedia of c. AD 30 31\u003cbr\u003eGalen’s infl uence: Medicine, ethics, religion, and teaching\u003cbr\u003eacross fi fteen centuries 35\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e3 Arabia: The First Fruits of Medieval Medicine 38\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBaghdad and The House of Wisdom 39\u003cbr\u003eFire and water: Transformative forces 40\u003cbr\u003eJabir (Geber) and Rhazes: Chemistry and medicine 41\u003cbr\u003e“I suppose that Avycen \/Wroot nevere in no canon…”\u003cbr\u003e(Chaucer) 47\u003cbr\u003eAlbucasis and Arabic surgery 49\u003cbr\u003eArabic medicine in retrospect 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e4 Divine Light: Seeing and Perceiving in the\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiddle Ages 55\u003cbr\u003eThe anatomy of perception: What was “seeing”\u003cbr\u003ebelieved to be? 56\u003cbr\u003eRainbows, colours, and perspective: Medieval Europe’s\u003cbr\u003enew key to physics 61\u003cbr\u003eUnravelling the colours of the rainbow: Medieval\u003cbr\u003eEurope’s great discovery 64\u003cbr\u003eSpectacles: The invention that changed the world 67\u003cbr\u003eCouching for cataract: Albucasis and medieval eye surgery 69\u003cbr\u003eThe eye as an optical projector 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e5 Rahere the Jester Meets St Bartholomew 73\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarly medieval care: Leech books and herbals 74\u003cbr\u003eSalerno, near Naples: Europe’s fi rst hospital and\u003cbr\u003emedical school 77\u003cbr\u003eThe founding of St Bartholomew’s Hospital in\u003cbr\u003etwelfth-century London 82\u003cbr\u003eCure of body and cure of soul: How clean were\u003cbr\u003emedieval people? 89\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e6 Spiritual Inspiration, Miracle, Possession,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMental Illness, and the Brain 94\u003cbr\u003eDiscerning clinical illness from spiritual states 94\u003cbr\u003eEpilepsy and the Hippocratic tradition in medieval Europe 98\u003cbr\u003eCells, chambers, and fl uid fl ows: The medieval explanation\u003cbr\u003efor brain function 102\u003cbr\u003eMargery Kempe (née Burnham or Brunham) and\u003cbr\u003ereligious visionaries 108\u003cbr\u003e“Bedlam”: A place of asylum for the distressed? 111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e7 In Time of Plague 113\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpidemics: Sin, nature, and the plague of the Philistines 114\u003cbr\u003eThe Black Death of 1347 and beyond 115\u003cbr\u003eA miscellany of medieval maladies 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e8 Medicine and Surgery in High Medieval Europe,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1200–1500, Part 1: Medicine and Anatomy in Europe’s\u003cbr\u003eMedieval Universities and Beyond 129\u003cbr\u003ePopulation growth, prosperity, and innovation 130\u003cbr\u003eTeaching anatomy, challenging myth, and the status of\u003cbr\u003eexperimental knowledge 132\u003cbr\u003ePus: Laudable or a liability? 135\u003cbr\u003eTheodoric Borgognoni of Lucca: Surgeon, hygienist,\u003cbr\u003efriar, and bishop 136\u003cbr\u003eThe fi rst academic medical schools: A European\u003cbr\u003einnovation 138\u003cbr\u003eMondino de Liuzzi of Bologna and his Anathomia 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e9 Medicine and Surgery in High Medieval Europe,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1200–1500, Part 2: Guy de Chauliac and the\u003cbr\u003eGreat Surgery of 1363 147\u003cbr\u003eA scientifi c physician at the papal court in Avignon 147\u003cbr\u003eChirurgia Magna, or the “Great Surgery”: A medical\u003cbr\u003eencyclopedia for future ages 149\u003cbr\u003eGuy de Chauliac: Victim, survivor, and student of\u003cbr\u003ethe bubonic plague 154\u003cbr\u003eSo was medieval surgery barbaric? 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e10 Prince Hal and the Surgeons: The Rise of Medical\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfessionalism in England after 1300 158\u003cbr\u003eJohn of Arderne: Master surgeon of the age of Chaucer 159\u003cbr\u003eAn unfortunate incident of an arrow in the face 161\u003cbr\u003eTowton Man: Sophisticated facial repair surgery in\u003cbr\u003eearly fi fteenth-century England 163\u003cbr\u003eThe anonymous surgeon of HMS Mary Rose in 1545 165\u003cbr\u003eGunpowder, God, and Europe’s surgical renaissance 167\u003cbr\u003eThe Royal College of Physicians and the Worshipful\u003cbr\u003eCompany of Barbers and Surgeons 170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e11 Antiquity Found Wanting in Renaissance Italy:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndreas Vesalius and His Infl uence 174\u003cbr\u003eRenaissance Italy and the “lesser circulation” of the blood:\u003cbr\u003eAndreas Vesalius, Padua, and the new anatomy of\u003cbr\u003ethe Renaissance 176\u003cbr\u003eThe art of the anatomical illustrator 178\u003cbr\u003eVesalius and his De Fabrica of 1543 181\u003cbr\u003eRealdo Colombo, the Vesalian tradition, and the secrets\u003cbr\u003eof the heart 189\u003cbr\u003eAmbrose Paré: Renaissance master surgeon 191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e12 William Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood 195\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOrigins and education 197\u003cbr\u003eHarvey establishes his professional career in London 199\u003cbr\u003eOf hearts, paradoxes, and purposes: Harvey’s road to\u003cbr\u003ethe blood circulation 201\u003cbr\u003eAnnouncing the whole-body circulation of the blood\u003cbr\u003ein 1628 205\u003cbr\u003eTherapeutic innovations around Harvey’s time 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e13 The Neurologist and the Archbishop of Canterbury,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1: The Oxford Experimental Club 217\u003cbr\u003eThe hanging of Anne Greene 218\u003cbr\u003eDr Thomas Willis of Oxford: Pioneer of neurology 222\u003cbr\u003eFermentation, fevers, and chemistry 228\u003cbr\u003eArthur Coga and the sheep: Experiments with blood and\u003cbr\u003ecirculation 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e14 The Neurologist and the Archbishop of Canterbury,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 2: Brains, Minds, and Souls in Seventeenth-\u003cbr\u003eCentury England 236\u003cbr\u003eThe Reverend Robert Burton: Anatomist of Melancholy 236\u003cbr\u003eThomas Willis and his “circle” 240\u003cbr\u003eDeath by lightning in 1666 246\u003cbr\u003eFathoming the working of the mind in seventeenthcentury\u003cbr\u003eEngland 249\u003cbr\u003eArchbishop Gilbert Sheldon, Doctor Willis, and the soul 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e15 Breathing and Burning: Cardiology, Chemistry,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand Combustion 258\u003cbr\u003eThe breath of life 258\u003cbr\u003eDr John Mayow: Air, fi re, blood, and life tested\u003cbr\u003ein the laboratory 263\u003cbr\u003eRobert Hooke and the dog 266\u003cbr\u003eRichard Lower, Tractatus de Corde, and the foundation of\u003cbr\u003ecardiology 267\u003cbr\u003eOxford’s enterprising apothecaries 271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e16 John Wesley’s Primitive Physick and the British\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePriest–Physician 274\u003cbr\u003eThe Reverend John Ward, MA: Experimentalist and\u003cbr\u003eShakespeare anecdote collector 275\u003cbr\u003eJohn Wesley and simple medicine for the common man 279\u003cbr\u003eThe country vicar who paved the way for aspirin 283\u003cbr\u003eStephen Hales, Sydney Smith, and other medical\u003cbr\u003eclergymen 285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e17 The Duty of Care: New Hospitals, Charities, and\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMedical Innovation in the Eighteenth Century 289\u003cbr\u003eA new tide of hospitals: London 290\u003cbr\u003eNew hospitals across Great Britain 294\u003cbr\u003eThe hospital as a “museum” of disease 298\u003cbr\u003eTeachers and discoverers in the eighteenth-century\u003cbr\u003ehospitals 301\u003cbr\u003eJohn Hunter FRS 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e18 “Remember Poor Tom ’o Bedlam”: Dealing with\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe “Mad” 307\u003cbr\u003e“Poor Tom’s a-cold”: Helping the insane in Stuart and\u003cbr\u003eGeorgian England 308\u003cbr\u003eMad-doctors and madhouses 310\u003cbr\u003eThe beginnings of compassionate care 311\u003cbr\u003eThe Reverend Dr Francis Willis and King George III 314\u003cbr\u003eFrom scandal to care in York, and the rise of humane\u003cbr\u003etreatment 317\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e19 Charismatics, Quacks, and Folk Healers into the\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarly Industrial Age 322\u003cbr\u003eValentine Greatrakes: Irish gentleman faith healer 323\u003cbr\u003eBartholomew Fair and other fairground quacks 324\u003cbr\u003eLearned quackery 327\u003cbr\u003eQuacks, showmen, and doctors 329\u003cbr\u003eDover’s Powders and nostrums galore 336\u003cbr\u003eMesmerism and phrenology 337\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e20 Sewers, Soap, and Salvation: The Origins of\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublic Health 339\u003cbr\u003eThe Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus, FRS 340\u003cbr\u003eFrom cow to human: Dr Edward Jenner and the impact\u003cbr\u003eof vaccination 342\u003cbr\u003eCholera 345\u003cbr\u003eSanitation, statistics, and the Broad Street pump 348\u003cbr\u003eDr John Snow and breakthrough at last 349\u003cbr\u003eSanitation, civil engineers, and salvation 350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e21 “Them Damn’d Murderin’ Anatomists”: The\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExpanding Medical Schools and the Supply of\u003cbr\u003eCadavers 354\u003cbr\u003eThe trade in “things” 355\u003cbr\u003eHow to snatch a “thing”: The practicalities of\u003cbr\u003e“resurrecting” 357\u003cbr\u003eEdinburgh: The medical lion of the north 360\u003cbr\u003e“True Murderin’ Anatomists”: The Burke and Hare scandal,\u003cbr\u003eEdinburgh, 1828 363\u003cbr\u003eDr Andrew Ure of Glasgow tries to raise the dead, 1818 365\u003cbr\u003eBishop and Head, the London “Burkers”, and the\u003cbr\u003eAnatomy Act 367\u003cbr\u003eSt Bernard’s, the Romance of a Medical Student, 1888 368\u003cbr\u003eFinding bones: A postscript 371\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e22 The Miracle of the Microscope 372\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Jackson Lister, FRS: Quaker, microscopist, and\u003cbr\u003egentleman of science 375\u003cbr\u003eCells: Professor Virchow identifi es life’s building blocks 380\u003cbr\u003eUnderstanding cancer 383\u003cbr\u003eThe French chemist and the German physician 386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e23 Chemistry and the Control of Pain: Anaesthesia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand Beyond 394\u003cbr\u003eChemical anaesthesia: 16 October 1846, Boston, USA 395\u003cbr\u003eChloroform: The Scottish wonder drug 401\u003cbr\u003eAnaesthesia, childbirth, and the Bible 403\u003cbr\u003eDr John Snow: Founder of scientifi c anaesthesiology 404\u003cbr\u003eMorphine, cocaine, and the hypodermic 405\u003cbr\u003ePeaceful slumbers: New drugs to comfort and calm 407\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e24 Glasgow, 1865: Young Jimmy Greenlees Meets\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Lister: Antiseptic Surgery and Beyond 410\u003cbr\u003ePrelude: Vienna, 1847 411\u003cbr\u003eGlasgow, August 1865 413\u003cbr\u003eFrom antiseptic to aseptic surgery 416\u003cbr\u003eThe new surgery 417\u003cbr\u003eThe new operations 419\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e25 The New Professional Healer: The Medical and\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNursing Professions Take Shape 424\u003cbr\u003eThe Medical Act of 1858 425\u003cbr\u003eHomeopaths, water-curers, and Victorian alternative\u003cbr\u003emedicine 426\u003cbr\u003eNursing, the new medical profession: Sarah Podger,\u003cbr\u003eMary Seacole, and Florence Nightingale 429\u003cbr\u003eSir William Osler on the new physicians 435\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e26 The Wonderful Century 437\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe drugs that hit the spot 437\u003cbr\u003ePenicillin and antibiotics 439\u003cbr\u003eCancer: Radiology, chemotherapy, and body scans 442\u003cbr\u003eAdjusting the body’s own chemistry, physics, and\u003cbr\u003eengineering 446\u003cbr\u003eWho am I? Scientifi c medicine and the soul 450\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: our modern duty of care 453\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 1: Cataract Operation Performed by a\u003cbr\u003eTraditional Shaman Surgeon in a Village to the East\u003cbr\u003eof Agra, Northern India, c. 2010 457\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 2: Stents and Tents 460\u003cbr\u003eNotes 462\u003cbr\u003eFurther Reading 470\u003cbr\u003eIndex 505\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SPCK Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48736498123095,"sku":"9780745970394","price":12.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745970394.jpg?v=1723810682","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/physicians-plagues-and-progress-9780745970394","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}