It's a book about medicine
social history and history of science,
Paid special attention
The history of the past two hundred years,
At the same time retroactively
Primitive medicine in prehistoric times.
Is medicine only related to science and technology? Who controls and dominates the development of medicine? Is medicine determined by supply and demand, or is it shaped by market forces? After hundreds of years of rapid progress in medicine, are there also problems and dilemmas?
Recently, Yilin Publishing House launched the "Cambridge Medical History", a blockbuster work in the history of medicine, which not only depicts the development process of human medicine for thousands of years, but also sharply understands the dilemmas and crises facing modern medicine.
The Cambridge History of Medicine was compiled by a group of authoritative scholars of medical history led by Roy Porter. Roy Porter is a famous British historian, a member of the British National Academy of Sciences, a pioneer in the history of medical society and medical culture, and is known as "the greatest medical historian of that generation". He has taught at the University of Cambridge, UCLA, Princeton University, and Stanford University. From 1993 he was Professor of Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine at University College London until his retirement.
The Cambridge History of Medicine boldly breaks through and breaks with tradition. It abandons the usual chronological narrative in favor of the thematic examples, carefully selecting issues that are essential to modern medicine as the theme of each chapter, such as what disease is, the relationship between hospitals and surgery, mental illness, and medicine and social government. As a result, the Cambridge History of Medicine has more room for in-depth exploration, to explore more questions, such as how the concept of disease relates to the socio-cultural context, and the interaction of gender culture and medicine.
The Cambridge History of Medicine is no longer a triumphant narrative, but a full affirmation of the benefits of medicine for mankind, while also pointing out the difficulties facing contemporary medicine. Today, pure optimism is rare, and the euphoria of penicillin, the birth of a heart transplant, and the birth of the first IVF baby in 1978 is gone. Along with the high progress of medicine comes the sense of panic brought about by genetic engineering and biotechnology, and the dissatisfaction of patients with the depersonalization of health care.
The Cambridge History of Medicine tries to show us that understanding the history of medicine is more than just singing the praises. Whether it's the risk that healthcare costs seem to be out of control, or the increase in iatrogenic diseases, the ambiguity of the medical underpinnings of psychiatry, the inequality of medical resources, the treatment of patients as "problems" rather than "individuals," and the increasingly healthy population trapped in increasingly specious laboratory testing and health anxiety, understanding the root causes of these problems must be considered historically.
The book uses popular, easy-to-understand, and concise words to open the curtain on the history of medicine, and in the history full of success, it is not afraid to unveil the dark side, contradictions and challenges of medicine, face the complex relationship between medicine and war, ethics and power, and advocate humanitarian and humanistic spirit.
Title: The Cambridge History of Medicine
Editor: [English] Roy Porter
Translator: Zhang Daqing et al
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