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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

An elegantly written account of the history of medicine from the era of the ancient Greeks to the present day, with superb chapters on landmark figures like Sigmund Freud, Louis Pasteur, and Margaret Sanger. Both the fit and not so fit among us will find Adler’s book about health and disease enlightening and entertaining. It’s just what the doctor ordered.

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

-Acknowledgments.
-Introduction.
-1. Hippocrates: A Principle and a Method.
-2. Herophilus and Erasistratus: The Light That Failed.
-3. Marcus Varro: The Germ of an Idea.
-4. Soranus: The Birthing Doctor.
-5. Galen of Pergamon: Combative Genius.
-6. The Enlightened Mind of Abu Bakr al-Razi.
-7. Ibn al-Nafis: Galen’s Nemesis.
-8. Paracelsus: Renaissance Rebel.
-9. Andreas Vesalius: Driven to Dissection.
-10. Johann Weyer: A Voice of Sanity in an Insane World.
-11. William Harvey and the Movements of the Heart.
-12. Edward Jenner: A Friend of Humanity.
-13. Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On: The Discovery of Anesthesia.
-14. Antisepsis: Awakening from a Nightmare.
-15. The Quiet Dr. Snow.
-16. Pasteur and the Germ Theory of Disease.
-17. Out of the Corner of His Eye: Roentgen Discovers X-rays.
-18. Sigmund Freud’s Dynamic Unconscious.
-19. Beyond Bacteria: Ivanovsky’s Discovery of Viruses.
-20. The Prepared Mind of Alexander Fleming.
-21. Margaret Sanger and the Pill.
-22. Organ Transplantation: A Legacy of Life.
-23. A Baby’s Cry: The Birth of In Vitro Fertilization.
-24. Humanity Eradicates a Disease—Smallpox—for the First Time.
-25. Cannibals, Kuru, and Mad Cows: A New Kind of Plague.
-26. Self, Nonself, and Danger: Deciphering the Immune System.
-27. Discovery Can’t Wait: Deciding the Human Genome.
-28. Into the Future.
-References and Further Reading.
-Index.