Beschrijving
Original publisher’s sewn paperback, lettering spine and frontcover, 8vo: iv, 212pp., figs, tables, 7 contributions, abbreviations, notes, appendices, bibliography, contributors, index. Contents: 1. Günter B. Risse: The History of Therapeutics. 2. Vivian Nutton: From Medical Certainty to Medical Amulets. Three Aspects of Ancient Therapeutics. 3. Louis Garcia-Ballister: Dietic and Pharmacological Therapy. A Dilemma among Fourthhnth-Century Jewish Practitioners in the Montpellier Area. 4. Christa Habrich: Characteristic Features of Eighteenth-Century Therapeutics in Germany. 5. Renate Wittern: The Origins of Homeopathy in Germany. 6. John Harley Warner: Science, Healing and the Physocian’s Identity. A Problem of Professional Character in Nineteenth-Century America. 7. Ulrich Tröhler: ‘ To Operate or not to Operate ? ‘. Scientific and Extraneous Factors in Therapeutical Controversies within the Swiss Society of Surgery 1913-1988. Very fine copy – as new. Volume 22: Clio Medica. The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine.