An edition of A history of medicine in 50 objects (2016)

A history of medicine in 50 objects

by Gill Paul

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An edition of A history of medicine in 50 objects (2016)

A history of medicine in 50 objects

by Gill Paul

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Takes readers on a 12,000-year journey to explore significant items that have advanced medical knowledge and practice. The fifty objects range from the everyday (a bottle of Aspirin) to singular medical advances (heart transplant pioneer Christian Bernard on the cover of TIME magazine). The objects are presented chronologically and described in two to four pages with illustrations, 150 beautiful archive images in all. Fact boxes note Location, Date, and Field, for example, epidemiology. Engaging text describes the artifacts in their social and cultural context, as well as their role in disease treatment and prevention.

Publish Date

2016

Publisher

Firefly Books Ltd.

Language

English

Pages

224

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Neolithic Trepanned Skulls -

The Edwin Smith Papyrus -

Clay Tablets from Mesopotamia -

Atharva Veda -

Huangchi Neijing -

The Tree of Hippocrates -

The Aqua Appia -

Dioscorides' Materia Medica -

Galen's Phlebotome -

The Hotel-Dieu -

Ten Treatises on the Eye -

The School of Salerno -

Avicenna's Tomb -

Plague Doctor's Mask -

De Humani Corporis Fabrica -

Santorio Santorio's Thermoscope -

Harvey's Diagram of Blood Circulation -

Chamberlen's Forceps -

Van Leeuwenhoek's Microscope -

The Cinchona Tree -

Edward Jenner's Lancet -

Laennec's Stethoscope -

Morton's Ether Inhaler -

TB Sanatorium in Grbersdorf -

John Snow's Cholera Map -

Florence Nightingale's Lamp -

Louis Pasteur's Flask -

The Snellen Eye Chart -

The Red Cross Symbol -

Joseph Lister's Donkey Engine -

The X-ray Machine -

Bayer Aspirin -

Sigmund Freud's Couch -

Harold Gillies' Tubed Pedicle -

Spanish Flu Mask -

Lilly's Insulin Syringe -

The Iron Lung -

Alexander Fleming's Petri Dish -

Bryukhonenko's Autojektor -

Willem Kolff's Artificial Kidney -

World Health Organization Flag -

Crick and Watson's Double Helix -

Cigarette Package Health Warning -

The First Heart Transplant -

MRI Scanner -

Surgical Robots -

AIDS Awareness Ribbon -

Stem Cells -

Thought-Controlled Prosthesis -

Protective Clothing for Ebola.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-219) and index.

Other Titles: Medicine in 50 objects, History of medicine in fifty objects

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class: 610.9
Library of Congress: R133 .P28 2016, R133.P28 2016, R133 .P38 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination: 224 pages
Number of pages: 224

ID Numbers

Open Library: OL27230061M
Internet Archive: historyofmedicin0000paul
ISBN 10: 1770857184
ISBN 13: 9781770857186
LCCN: 2016302671
OCLC/WorldCat: 959374027, 936978351

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A history of medicine in 50 objects

by Gill Paul