Reason and Medicine: Art and Science of Healing from Antiquity to Modern Times

£16.95

Daya Ram Varma

Three Essays – Paperback

 

A fascinating book, full of rich insights into the history, science, political economy, cultural and social aspects of medicine. A people’s history of medicine and a refreshingly non-Eurocentric view of medical science.

Description

Contents:

1-Introduction;

2-Art and Science of Medicine;

3-Socio-political Determinants of Medical Science;

4-Age of Spiritual Medicine;

5-Empirical Medicine: Egypt;

6-Transition to Materialist Medicine: Ayurveda;

7- Chinese Medicine;

8-Age of Materialism: Greek Medicine;

9-Age of Stagnation of Medical Science;

10-Islamic Medicine;

11-Age of Witch Hunt;

12-Age of Allopathy and Homeopathy;

13-Therapeutics Since Antiquity;

14-Modern Medicine Comes of Age;

15-Medical Ethics and Medical Science;

16-The Sun Rises in the West;

17-Survival of the Fit and the Unfit Medicines.

Additional Information
By

Daya Ram Varma

Published by

Three Essays Collective

ISBN

9788188789832

Format

Paperback

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