Physicians, Plagues and Progress: The History of Western medicine from Antiquity to Antibiotics

Name: Physicians, Plagues and Progress: The History of Western medicine from Antiquity to Antibiotics
Brand: SPCK Publishing
SKU: 9780745970394
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By (author): Allan Chapman

Since the dawn of time, man has sought to improve his health and that of his neighbour. The human race, around the world, has been on a long and complex journey, seeking to find out how our bodies work, and what heals them. Embarking on a four-thousand-year odyssey, science historian Allan Chapman brings to life the origin and development of medicine and surgery. Writing with pace and rigorous accuracy, he investigates how we have battled against injury and disease, and provides a gripping and highly readable account of the various victories and discoveries along the way. Drawing on sources from across Europe and beyond, Chapman discusses the huge contributions to medicine made by the Greeks, the Romans, the early medieval Arabs, and above all by Western Christendom, looking at how experiment, discovery, and improving technology impact upon one another to produce progress. This is a fascinating, insightful read, enlivened with many colourful characters and memorable stories of inspired experimenters, theatrical surgeons, student pranks, body-snatchers, 'mad-doctors', quacks, and charitable benefactors. See more

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Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
Publication Date: 20 Apr 2018
Publisher: SPCK Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780745970394

About Allan Chapman

Dr Allan Chapman is a historian of science at Oxford University with special interests in the history of astronomy and of medicine and the relationship between science and Christianity. As well as University teaching he lectures widely has written a dozen books and numerous academic articles and written and presented two TV series Gods in the Sky and Great Scientists besides taking part in many other history of science TVdocumentaries and in The Sky at Night with Sir Patrick Moore. He has received honorary doctorates and awards from the Universities of Central Lancashire Salford and Lancaster and in 2015 was presented with the Jackson-Gwilt Medal by the Royal Astronomical Society. Among his books are Slaying the Dragons. Destroying Myths in the History of Science and Faith (Lion Hudson 2013) Stargazers: Copernicus Galileo the Telescopeand the Church. The Astronomical Renaissance 1500-1700 (Lion 2014) and Physicians Plagues and Progress. The History of Western Medicine from Antiquity to Antibiotics (Lion 2016). He is also the author of thescientific biographies England's Leonardo. Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth-Century Scientific Revolution (Institute of Physics 2005) Mary Somerville and the World of Science (Canopus 2004; Springer 2015) and The Victorian Amateur Astronomer. Independent Astronomical Research in Britain 1820-1920 (Wiley-Praxis 1998; revised edn. Gracewing 2017).