{"product_id":"a-short-history-of-medicine-revised-expanded-9781421419541","title":"A Short History of Medicine (Revised, Expanded)","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eA bestselling history of medicine, enriched with a new foreword, concluding essay, and bibliographic essay.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErwin H. Ackerknecht's \u003ci\u003eA Short History of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e is a concise narrative, long appreciated by students in the history of medicine, medical students, historians, and medical professionals as well as all those seeking to understand the history of medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCovering the broad sweep of discoveries from parasitic worms to bacilli and x-rays, and highlighting physicians and scientists from Hippocrates and Galen to Pasteur, Koch, and Roentgen, Ackerknecht narrates Western and Eastern civilization's work at identifying and curing disease. He follows these discoveries from the library to the bedside, hospital, and laboratory, illuminating how basic biological sciences interacted with clinical practice over time. But his story is more than one of laudable scientific and therapeutic achievement. Ackerknecht also points toward the social, ecological, economic, and political conditions that shape the incidence of disease. Improvements in health, Ackerknecht argues, depend on more than laboratory knowledge: they also require that we improve the lives of ordinary men and women by altering social conditions such as poverty and hunger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis revised and expanded edition includes a new foreword and concluding biographical essay by Charles E. Rosenberg, Ackerknecht's former student and a distinguished historian of medicine. A new bibliographic essay by Lisa Haushofer explores recent scholarship in the history of medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eErwin H. Ackerknecht (1906-1988), \u003c\/b\u003e a professor of the history of medicine at the University of Zurich from 1957 to 1971 and one of the world's most distinguished medical historians, was the author of \u003ci\u003eShort History of Psychiatry\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMedicine at the Paris Hospital, 1794-1848\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eCharles E. Rosenberg\u003c\/b\u003e is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences and professor of the history of science emeritus at Harvard University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eOur Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50849950892306,"sku":"9781421419541","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a3a47c81-a794-47c9-aef8-fbf3febbc953.jpg?v=1737404151","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-short-history-of-medicine-revised-expanded-9781421419541","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}