Illustrations
Tables
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Second Edition

1. Introduction: Heroes and Villains in the History of Medicine
2. The Fabricated Body: History of Anatomy
3. Interrogating Life: History of Physiology
4. Science of Suffering: History of Pathology
5. First Do No Harm: History of Treatment, Pharmacology, and Pharmaceuticals
6. On Becoming and Being a Doctor: Education, Licensing, and Payment
7. Plagues and Peoples: Epidemic Diseases in History
8. Why Is Blood Special? Changing Concepts of a Vital Humour
9. Technology and Disease: Stethoscopes, Hospitals, and Other Gadgets
10. Work of the Hand: History of Surgery
11. Women’s Medicine and Medicine’s Women: History of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women
12. Wrestling with Demons: History of Psychiatry
13. No Baby, No Nation: History of Pediatrics
14. A Many-Faceted Gem: The Decline and Rebirth of Family Medicine
15. When the Patient Is Plural: Public and International Health
16. "Slow as a glacier, equally relentless": Patient-Centred Medicine
17. Sleuthing and Science: How to Research a Question in Medical History

Appendix
Learning Objectives

Suggestions for Further Reading
Index