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The decline of therapeutic bloodletting and the collapse of traditional medicine
Title
The decline of therapeutic bloodletting and the collapse of traditional medicine / K. Codell Carter.
ISBN
9781412846042 (alk. paper)
1412846048 (alk. paper)
Published
New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2012.
Physical Description
ix, 160 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 24, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Bloodletting and inflammation
Bloodletting and social norms
Disease and causes of disease in early nineteenth century medical thought
The early nineteenth century conception of quackery
The Edinburgh bloodletting controversy
Ignaz Semmelweis and the adoption of etiological concepts of disease
The collapse of traditional medicine and the rise of medical science
The current crisis in epidemiology.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Attitude to Health - Europe.
History, 19th Century - Europe.
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