Cultural history of medicine

Since it is impractical for all those interested in the history of medicine or its application to medicine to become trained in both disciplines, collaboration between historians and physicians can be productive

Until recently, the history of medicine was, with some notable exceptions, the special province of retiring physicians

With the emergence of social history in the 1960s and 1970s, an increasing number of academic historians turned their gaze towards the history of medicine

Influenced initially by critiques of psychiatry, these historians also rediscovered the earlier writings of German immigré physicians, Henry E Sigerist and Owsei Temkin and their followers

A Cultural History of Medicine, as the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of medicine from ancient times to modernity, discusses this

With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2500 years of human history, this is the definitive reference work on the subject