Medicine: A History of the Healing Arts

By Roy Porter

Book Overview

This authoritative, entertaining history of the evolution of therapeutic medicine is global in scope and multicultural in approach, offering a chronology of medical history and its theory and practice... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569247080
• ISBN13: 9781569247082
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.1" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

A good start to being in the field of medicine

Medicine: A History of Healing is a book that describes medicine from before we can think of all the way up to now. It shows different cultures of the world and how they practice medicine. It was very informative and had something for every place of intrest. There is everything from aromatherapy to ancient disections. I learned unique facts from the past and the future. If you are intrested in doing anything related to medicine than I would recommend picking this book up and taking a look. Most of the text is at a reading level of 12th grade, so it is not the easist book to understand.