The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC to AD 1800
- ISBN-10
- 0521475643
- ISBN-13
- 9780521475648
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 574
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995-08-17
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Authors
- Vivian Nutton, Roy Porter, Lawrence I. Conrad
Description
It provides a much-needed account of the very latest historical scholarship.
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