Philip A Mackowiak

Patients as Art

Forty Thousand Years of Medical History in Drawings, Paintings, and Sculpture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Patients as Art explores the capacity of art to provide a unique perspective on the history of humankind. Featuring over 160 full-color works of art, this book offers a pictorial review of medical history stretching from Paleolithic times to the present, reflecting the ideals and sensibilities of the times in which they were created, and communicating formal, spiritual, and scientific values. Dr. Mackowiak reveals what these works have to say about thestatus of the "art of medicine" in the past and its relationship to the medicine of today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9780190858216
• ISBN-10: 0190858214
• Artikelnr.: 54395418

Autorenporträt

Dr. Mackowiak is the Frenkil/Passen History of Medicine Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, and the 2010 recipient of the American College of Physicians' Nicholas E. Davies Award for Scholarly Activities in the Humanities and the History of Medicine: Patients as Art is his third book devoted to medical history. His first two, Diagnosing Giants: Solving History's Great Medical Mysteries (ACP Press) and Diagnosing Giants: Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World (Oxford U. Press) established him as one of today's most accomplished medical historians.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Nutrition
Chapter 2. Diagnostics
Chapter 3. Therapeutics
Chapter 4. Surgery
Chapter 5. Public Health
Chapter 6. Mental Health
Chapter 7. Military Medicine
Chapter 8. Genetics
Chapter 9. Death and Dying
Chapter 10. Artists as Patients
Epilogue