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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine
from Cambridge University Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Good book.
  The book is very nice with color pictures and a extend narrative about the topics. It lacks a little more details and depth in some areas and cut down in other areas in which the length makes the reading boring after a while since I have the impression that I keep reading about the same. In general is a good book to learn basic history of medicine and some of the illustration makes the book a more attractive for the reader. Good price for what I got.

• Good additional text to team up with your other medical books
  This book was favorable in my opinion. It traces the history and interrelation of disease, health and medicine over more than 2000 years. It is a chronological sotry of the key developments and events in medical history from antiquity onwards, while at the same time engaging with the issues, discoveries and controversies that have beset and characterized medical progress.
  The Chapters include: The hisory of disease, the rise of medicine, what is disease? Primary care, Medical science, Hospitals and... more info

• Good Overview, Broad Spectrum
  I think this book offers a good overview of medical history with a fairly broad reach. It covers many different cultures and famous physicians with what seems to be a good historical account. It is fairly straightfoward reading that doesn't have much of the little historical tidbits that make some history of medicine texts really interesting. It read more like a good textbook and is a good starting place in your learning of medical history.

• Well written, lavishly illustrated
  I decided, given the variation in literature available, to read and review three books on medicine by Roy Porter at once. These are this one, the Cambridge Illustrated History: Medicine the other two are - "The Greatest Benefit of Mankind" and "Gout, the Patrician Maladay". I thought this was the best approach as people might be looking for a reference work to buy and trying to toss up between which one to get and what the advantages and disadvantages of buying one of these would be. Well for the first two... more info

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