Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine Available to Purchase

It is difficult to do justice to this book in a short review. There are 72 essays which pack, in many cases, a great deal of information and each of them covers many topics. What I have done is to read some chapters that are of particular interest to me, and to skim others that are of less personal interest but of technical importance. The book is divided into seven sections. The first forms an introduction to the historiography of mainstream Western medicine, the main focus of the work. The next explores the development of the investigative approaches such as...