It is now recognized that spirituality plays an active role in the experience of illness and healing, even when the sufferer turns to medicine for help. The relationship of medicine to the miracles at healing shrines, especially Lourdes, is well known. Less studied are the miracles associated with t[...]
This brief survey of the history of western medicine refers to scholarly literature and 21st century issues in health care. Organized conceptually around the major fields of medical endeavour, this book provides an overview of medical history as a component of social, intellectual and cultural histo[...]
Jacalyn Duffin's History of Medicine has for ten years been one of the leading texts used to teach medical and nursing students the history of their profession. It has also been widely used in history courses and by general readers. An accessible overview of medical history, this new edition is grea[...]