The Decline of Therapeutic Bloodletting and the Collapse of Traditional Medicine
Autor K. Codell Carteren Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 sep 2017
Bloodletting had been a prominent medical therapy in early nineteenth-century Europe and can be traced back to Greek and Roman physicians. The Hippocratic corpus contains several discussions of bloodletting. Galen, the most famous physician in classical antiquity, wrote tracts explaining and defending the practice. It was employed in ancient Egypt and is the most commonly mentioned therapy in the Babylonian Talmud. Indeed, it was practiced in virtually every part of the ancient world.
Even though the practice abruptly ceased, there was little argument against it or reason to believe it ineffective. In reality, bloodletting actually worked. However, the rise of modern medicine required not just a change in how disease and causation were conceived, but also a change in the role of medicine in society. It has been claimed that the collapse of traditional medicine was a precondition for the rise of modern medicine, but there has been little support for this assertion before now. Carter provides this missing support. The result is a fascinating study in the history of medical practice and social expectations.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781138515680
ISBN-10: 113851568X
Pagini: 169
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 113851568X
Pagini: 169
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Preface, Introduction, 1 Bloodletting and Inflammation, 2 Bloodletting and Social Norms, 3 Disease and Causes of Disease in Early Nineteenth-Century Medical Th ought, 4 Th e Early Nineteenth-Century Conception of Quackery, 5 Th e Edinburgh Bloodletting Controversy, 6 Ignaz Semmelweis and the Adoption of Etiological Concepts of Disease, 7 Th e Collapse of Traditional Medicine and the Rise of Medical Science, 8 Th e Current Crisis in Epidemiology, References, Index
Descriere
Over the course of a single generation, without significant discussion or debate, a key practice of traditional medicine was almost completely abandoned in mid-nineteenth-century Europe