1st Edition
The Decline of Therapeutic Bloodletting and the Collapse of Traditional Medicine
By K. Codell Carter
Copyright 2012
169 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
169 Pages
by
Routledge
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Over the course of a single generation, without significant discussion or debate, a key practice of traditional medicine was almost completely abandoned in mid-nineteenth-century Europe. K. Codell Carter's book describes how and why bloodletting was abandoned, noting that it was part of a process in which innovation was required so that modern scientific medicine could begin. This book is a... Read more
Preface, Introduction, 1 Bloodletting and Inflammation, 2 Bloodletting and Social Norms, 3 Disease and Causes of Disease in Early Nineteenth-Century Medical Th ought, 4 Th e Early Nineteenth-Century Conception of Quackery, 5 Th e Edinburgh Bloodletting Controversy, 6 Ignaz Semmelweis and the Adoption of Etiological Concepts of Disease, 7 Th e Collapse of Traditional Medicine and the Rise of Medical Science, 8 Th e Current Crisis in Epidemiology, References, Index
Biography
K. Codell Carter
