Arthur Newsholme

Evolution of Preventive Medicine (Routledge Revivals)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1927, this book provides a complete study of the beginnings and early development of preventive medicine. It looks at the subject's underlying principles and discusses the prominent writers of the past. Topics cover infection, plague, science and medicine, poverty and preventive medicine and the prevention of cholera, amongst others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9781138906525
• ISBN-10: 1138906522
• Artikelnr.: 60018462

Autorenporträt

Sir Arthur Newsholme

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introductory 2. Theological and Sacerdotal Obsessions Concerning Disease
3. The Escape from and Relapse into Supernaturalism 4. The Beginnings of
Emancipation 5. Stages in and Obstacles to Progress 6. The Relation of
Science to Medicine 7. The Slow Subversion of Authority and Increment of
Science 8. The Growth of our Knowledge of Infection 9. Epidemic
Constitutions and Epidemiology 10. Early Struggles against Plague 11.
Contagium Vivum 12. Sanitation and Social Improvement 13. Progress in the
Eighteenth and Early Part of the Nineteenth Century 14. Poverty and
Preventive Medicine 15. The Prevention of "Fever" 16. The Prevention of
"Fever" (Continued) 17. The Prevention of Cholera 18. Disinfection in
Preventive Medicine 19. Immunization against Infection 20. The Prevention
of Non-specific Infection (Sepsis) 21. Food and Drink in Relation to Health
22. Infantile Hygiene 23. Modern Preventive Medicine; Index of Proper
Names; Index of Subjects