Medicine for Beginner's

By Tony Pinchuck and Richard Clark

A fascinating history of the healing arts is documented from ancient time to the advance of contemporary scientific medicine. The facts of 'medical progress' are fever-charted, in a succinct and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0863160077
• ISBN13: 9780863160073
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Writers & Readers Publishing
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Cynical, but Informative

Medicine for Beginners is a historical approach rather than an aesthetic approach. It covers from whence medicine was for the shamans and healers and witch doctors. Soon, it became a practice and then a teaching and schooling. The author, although not cynical of the medicine itself, has some animosity against the trade which has become a biollion dollar a year business. Doctors has made it difficult to become a doctor (to raise prices) and insurance (to treat the rich). Since then, medicine has been really geared for those that do have money, and everyone else to pay the rest of their lives in fees (somewhat similar to the IRS and credit corps. do). Nonetheless it was a fun and easy book to read, one should not have any trouble tackling this book within a day. Out of print, it may serve as a good reference book to anyone who is reseaching medical history, but it may be somewhat out of the way as its not at the fingertips of everyone.