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Title: A BRIEF HISTORY OF MEDICINE
FROM HIPPOCRATES TO GENE THERAPY
By: Paul Strathern
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 1845291557
ISBN 13: 9781845291556
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Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP
Pub. date: 23 June, 2005
Series: Brief Histories
Pages: 432
Description: From Hippocrates to gene therapy, bloodletting to DNA
Synopsis: Paul Strathern follows the development of medicine through the lives of its greatest practitioners, whose discoveries (and errors) shaped the course of medical history. Includes geniuses, such as Paracelsus, the father of medical chemistry, and Edward Jenner, whose vaccination banished smallpox, scientific endeavour, such as the discovery of X-rays, and mistakes bothfortunate and fatal. With grave robbing, plague and germ theory, quackery, nursing, syphilis, micro-organisms and penicillin along the way, this is the ultimate story of human --and humane -- achievement.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Robinson Publishing
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