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Index

Inroduction Beliefs and Traditions to 900

Prehistoric Medicine Trepanning The Priest-Physicians of Egypt Surgery in Ancient Egypt Hippocrates and Greek Medicine Galen and the Rule of Rome Roman Surgical Tools The Dark Ages in Europe The Bubonic Plague The Alchemists Traditional Eastern Medicine Ayurveda Native American Medicine Shamanism African and West Asian Traditions

The Rise of Scientific Medicine 900–1820

Al-Rhazi, Ibn Sina, and the Arab Revival The Four Humours Schools of Medicine and Life Vesalius and the Anatomists Paré and the Barber-Surgeons Bloodletting Harvey and Blood Circulation The Microscope Revolution Early Microscopes Conquering the Dreaded Pox Eradicating Smallpox

Medicine in the Industrial Age 1820–1920

Women in Medicine Anaesthesia Early Anaesthetics John Snow and Epidemiology Florence Nightingale Measuring Blood Pressure Pasteur and Microbiology The Horror of Rabies Lister and Antiseptics Mother and Baby Medicine The Germ Theory of Disease Viruses in Action Medicine and the Mind

Modern Medicine 1920–2000

Blood Groups and the Sugar Disease Receiving Blood The First Antibiotic Antibiotics at Work The Fight Against Cancer Deadly Cells New Parts for Old Implants and Prostheses Medicine and Care for the Elderly Vaccination Comes of Age How Immunization Works A New Heart Imaging the Body Seeing Inside the Body The Birth of IVF Complementary and Alternative Medicines Potential Pandemics Battling HIV and AIDS

Genes and Future Dreams 2000–present

Genetics and Medicine The Genetic Code Robots and Telemedicine Emergency Medicine A Shock to the System Stem Cell Therapy Dignity and Death Medicine in the Third Millennium Mosquito-borne Malaria

Glossary Bibliography Acknowledgments Publishing Information