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Index
Chapter 1: Medicine in Perspective
Chapter 2: The Power of the Gods
Chapter 3: Medicine in Mesopotamia
Chapter 4: Our Debt to the Orient
Chapter 5: The Great Men of Greece
Chapter 6: The Roman Legacy
Chapter 7: The Influence of the Christian Church
Chapter 8: The Arabian Inheritance
Chapter 9: The First Medical Schools
Chapter 10: The Black Death
Chapter 11: Expanding Horizons
Chapter 12: The Outcome of Travel
Chapter 13: The Rejection of Old Ideas
Chapter 14: New Ideas but Old Practices
Chapter 15: The Decline of the Church
Chapter 16: Scientific Advances
Chapter 17: The Dawn of a New Era
Chapter 18: The Nature of Infection
Chapter 19: Conflict in the Profession
Chapter 20: A Revolution in Medical Education
Chapter 21: Medicine in Eighteenth Century America
Chapter 22: Drugs and the Drug Industry
Chapter 23: Power and Illness
Chapter 24: The Industrial Revolution
Chapter 25: An End to Scurvy
Chapter 26: A New Weapon Against Disease
Chapter 27: Quackery and Genius
Chapter 28: The Evils of Institutional Care
Chapter 29: The Birth of the Pharmaceutical Industry
Chapter 30: Surgery Gains Status in France
Chapter 31: The Apothecaries Gain Control
Chapter 32: Killer Diseases Force Social Change
Chapter 33: The Hazards of Industry
Chapter 34: Nursing Becomes a Profession
Chapter 35: Florence Nightingale’s Contribution
Chapter 36: Proponents of Hygiene
Chapter 37: Women in Medicine
Chapter 38: Solving Problems in Surgery
Chapter 39: Improvements in Public Health
Chapter 40: Unravelling the Microbe Mystery
Chapter 41: Sigmund Freud’s Obsession
Chapter 42: Surgery Knows No Bounds
Chapter 43: The Control of Exotic Disease
Chapter 44: Röntgen’s Discovery
Chapter 45: The Shrinking World
Chapter 46: The Rise of the Specialist
Chapter 47: Blood Transfusion Becomes a Reality
Chapter 48: Disease and War
Chapter 49: The First Organised Health Services
Chapter 50: The Birth-control Protagonists
Chapter 51: Magic Bullets
Chapter 52: International Control of Disease
Chapter 53: Modern Health Care
Chapter 54: The End of an Era?
Dramatis Personae
Turning Points
Further Reading
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