The Western Medical Tradition: 1800-2000
- ISBN-10
- 0521475651
- ISBN-13
- 9780521475655
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 614
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-03-20
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Authors
- Professor Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine W F Bynum, W. F. Bynum, Anne Hardy
Description
An authoritative description of the important changes in Western medicine over the past two centuries.
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- 1995-08-17
- 574 pages
- Paperback
- Cambridge University Press
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