Medicine becomes a science : 1840-1999
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Medicine becomes a science : 1840-1999
AUTHOR:
Kelly, Kate, 1950-
ISBN:
9780816072095
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Facts On File, 2010
PHYSICAL_DESC:
xvi, 168 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
SERIES:
History of medicine
SERIES_TITLE:
History of medicine
GENERAL_NOTE:
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS:
Medical science finally advances -- Women and modern medicine -- Science moves forward in diagnosis and treatment -- Advances in medications -- An answer to polio and other changes in medicine -- More changes brought about by war -- The science of the heart -- DNA changes the medical knowledge base.
SUBJECT:
| Medicine -- History -- 19th century |
| Medicine -- History -- 20th century |
| History of Medicine |
| History, 19th Century |
| History, 20th Century |
| Science -- history |