1st Edition

From Hippocrates to COVID-19 A Bibliographic History of Medicine

Edited By Dale A. Stirling Copyright 2023
694 Pages
by Jenny Stanford Publishing

694 Pages
by Jenny Stanford Publishing

The COVID-19 pandemic provides stark evidence of the importance of medicine on a global scale. However, revisiting the influenza pandemic of 1918 provided a perspective as we searched for a viable vaccine and instituted public health measures. This shows that medical knowledge is an accumulative process extending to the past and it is in the spirit of that legacy that this bibliography has been... Read more

1. History and Historiography of Medicine

2. General Medical Topics

3. Medical Devices, Equipment & Instruments

4. Medical Facilities, Diseases, and Disorders

5. Geographic Perspectives, Medical Specialties, and Practice Areas

6. Other Sciences and Specialties Allied with Medicine

Biography

Dale A. Stirling is a historian who, over a four-decade period, has worked on environmental, natural resource, and public health matters. Concurrently, he has been an independent bibliographer, abstractor, and indexer and has published numerous journal articles and reference books on topics ranging from environmental assessments to historical maps to toxicology. Stirling earned his Bachelor's in history from the University of Alaska Anchorage, USA, and his Master’s in liberal arts from the Alaska Pacific University, USA. He currently resides near the town of Coupeville on Whidbey Island in Washington State, USA.