How has our understanding of medicine evolved over the past 2,500 years?
A Cultural History of Medicine, as the first comprehensive and
interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of medicine from
ancient times to modernity, discusses this. With six highly illustrated
volumes covering 2500 years of human history, this is the definitive
reference work on the subject.
Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make
it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each
of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period
in one volume, or following a theme across history by reading the
relevant chapter in each of the six.
The six volumes cover: 1. - Antiquity (500BCE - 800 CE); 2. - Middle
Ages (800 - 1450); 3. - Renaissance (1450 - 1650); 4. - Age of
Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. - Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6. -
Modern Age (1920 - 2000+).
Themes (and chapter titles) are: Environment; Food; Disease; Animals;
Objects; Experiences; the Mind; Authority.
The page extent for the pack is approximately 1,728 pp with c. 240 b/w
illustrations. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors and an
Introduction and concludes with Notes, Bibliography, and an Index.
The Cultural Histories Series
A Cultural History of Medicine is part of The Cultural Histories
Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for
libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and
tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully-searchable
digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or on
perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
