The art of medicine : over 2000 years of medicine in our lives

By: Anderson, Julie [Author]Language: English Publication details: London : Wellcome Collection, 2011. Description: 255 p. ill. 31 cmISBN: 9781907579134Subject(s): Art of MedicineLOC classification: QM 25 .A53 | M43 2011

Contents:

Foreword / by Antony Gormley Preface / by Sir William Castell Introduction / by Ken Arnold and Simon Chaplin ch. 1. Mapping the body. Anatomy ; Teaching anatomy ; Early European anatomy ; Japanese anatomy ; Ayurvedic, Tibetan and Nepalese anatomies ; Persian anatomy ; Renaissance anatomy ; Andreas Vesalius ; Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires prodigeuses ; Jacques Gautier d'Agoty ; Écorché images ; Anatomical models ; Visual metaphors for the body ; The astrological body ; The brain ; The face and neck ; The heart ; Pregnancy and the foetus ; The human egg and embryo ; The limbs ; Blood vessels ; Blood ; Skin ; Microscopic mapping of the body ; The structure of DNA ; Responses to genetic research ch. 2. Medicine in our lives. Medicine and belief ; Momento mori ; Traditional North American medicine ; Physicians taking the pulse ; Hospitals ; Nurses ; Childbirth ; Dispensing medicine ; Tonics and curatives ; Caricatures of physicians ; Hogarth's insights ; Medicine and politics ch. 3. Understanding illness and developing cures. Representing disease ; Cholera ; Smallpox ; Gout ; Uroscopy ; Ayurvedic medicine ; Acupuncture in China ; Acupuncture in Japan ; Astrology ; Alchemy ; Apothecary ; Herbal medicine ; Leonhart Fuchs ; Herbal medicine in the nineteenth century ; Colds and flu ; Cancer ; HIV ; Drugs under the microscope ch. 4. Treating with surgery and healing wounds. The operating theatre ; Bloodletting ; Amputation ; Ambroise Paré, master surgeon ; Eye surgery ; Dental treatments ; Wound man ; Treating wounds ; Charles Bell at the Battle of Waterloo ; Military medicine ; Pain and its relief ch. 5. The mind and mental illness. Bethlem Hospital ; Curing mental illness ; Phrenology ; Physiognomy ; The patient's perspective ; Bobby Baker's diary drawings ch. 6. Staying well. Fortification ; Vitamin C under the microscope ; Protective amulets ; Promoting prevention ; Fighting fit ; Preventing smallpox ; Syphilis and AIDS References

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Vitali Hakko Kreatif Endüstriler Kütüphanesi	QM 25 .A53 M43 2011	Not for loan		012830

Gift of Cem Ertekin.

Foreword / by Antony Gormley
Preface / by Sir William Castell
Introduction / by Ken Arnold and Simon Chaplin
ch. 1. Mapping the body. Anatomy ; Teaching anatomy ; Early European anatomy ; Japanese anatomy ; Ayurvedic, Tibetan and Nepalese anatomies ; Persian anatomy ; Renaissance anatomy ; Andreas Vesalius ; Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires prodigeuses ; Jacques Gautier d'Agoty ; Écorché images ; Anatomical models ; Visual metaphors for the body ; The astrological body ; The brain ; The face and neck ; The heart ; Pregnancy and the foetus ; The human egg and embryo ; The limbs ; Blood vessels ; Blood ; Skin ; Microscopic mapping of the body ; The structure of DNA ; Responses to genetic research
ch. 2. Medicine in our lives. Medicine and belief ; Momento mori ; Traditional North American medicine ; Physicians taking the pulse ; Hospitals ; Nurses ; Childbirth ; Dispensing medicine ; Tonics and curatives ; Caricatures of physicians ; Hogarth's insights ; Medicine and politics
ch. 3. Understanding illness and developing cures. Representing disease ; Cholera ; Smallpox ; Gout ; Uroscopy ; Ayurvedic medicine ; Acupuncture in China ; Acupuncture in Japan ; Astrology ; Alchemy ; Apothecary ; Herbal medicine ; Leonhart Fuchs ; Herbal medicine in the nineteenth century ; Colds and flu ; Cancer ; HIV ; Drugs under the microscope
ch. 4. Treating with surgery and healing wounds. The operating theatre ; Bloodletting ; Amputation ; Ambroise Paré, master surgeon ; Eye surgery ; Dental treatments ; Wound man ; Treating wounds ; Charles Bell at the Battle of Waterloo ; Military medicine ; Pain and its relief
ch. 5. The mind and mental illness. Bethlem Hospital ; Curing mental illness ; Phrenology ; Physiognomy ; The patient's perspective ; Bobby Baker's diary drawings
ch. 6. Staying well. Fortification ; Vitamin C under the microscope ; Protective amulets ; Promoting prevention ; Fighting fit ; Preventing smallpox ; Syphilis and AIDS
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