A Short History of Medicine

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A concise, readable, and authoritative introduction to the history of medicine. Annals of Internal Medicine At first glance it seems inconceivable that a historian could, in a brief text, adequately capture the history of medicine from primitive times through early civilizations, classical antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and up to the mid-twentieth century. Edwin H. Ackerknecht accomplsihes this task and he does it with verve, clarity, and style. -- Barbara Brodie Nursing History Review