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A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine
by Michael Kennedy
from Asklepiad Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• no problems!
  The book arrived it great shape without any damage. Book was brand new just as stated in the description. Also, the book arrived in the amount of time that was stated.

• I'm the author
  I got a chuckle from a recent review by Seven Octaves. It was similar to a review in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Everyone wishes I had added a few hundred pages on their favorite subject. The book was written for medical students and nurses and pre-med students. I have been surprised at the acceptance by non-medical people. The idea was to provide what every young medical student or nurse or pre-med student should know. Salvarsan is of historic significance only. Erlich is important for his... more info

• Fine Book
  Other reviewers have stated what this book is about, but I don't think this is quite a 5-star book however. Even though the title is "brief", he made no mention of all was the growth of plastic surgery following all the disfigured soldiers returning from WW1. Paul Ehrlich's development Salvarsan didn't even get an entire page devoted to it. Some history on treatments for others diseases are lacking or absent. This book could have been really good if the author threw in a few hundred more pages, (easy for me... more info

• The Return of Humanism in Medicine: Hope for the Future!
  In this litigious time when physicians and all medical care workers tend to live under an umbrella of suspect brought on by the intervention of the media, vast lawsuits, big business (pharmaceutical companies) intervention, and computer access to data, there has occurred a response in the medical facilities to promote 'defensive medicine' to instruct the nascent students how to cope with the antagonistic world outside the halls of the teaching hospitals. This has resulted in less emphasis on the learning of... more info

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