Disease and Its Control - by Robert Hudson (Paperback)

About the Book

This book is . . . a survey history of medicine from the earliest times, centered thematically on how changing concepts of disease have affected its management. . . . One finds a gratifying mastery of recent as well as classic scholarship in medical history and a careful sidestepping of positivistic excesses. . . . Disease and Its Control is a fresh and welcome synthesis of historical scholarship that will be accessible to interested laymen. Annals of Internal Medicine

Book Synopsis

This book is . . . a survey history of medicine from the earliest times, centered thematically on how changing concepts of disease have affected its management. . . . One finds a gratifying mastery of recent as well as classic scholarship in medical history and a careful sidestepping of positivistic excesses. . . . Disease and Its Control is a fresh and welcome synthesis of historical scholarship that will be accessible to interested laymen. Annals of Internal Medicine

Review Quotes

"Lucidly written, addressed to problems that are likely to interest medical professionals, the books should appeal not only to them but also to a wider readership interested in the history of ideas." ISIS "This book is ... a survey history of medicine from the earliest times, centered thematically on how changing concepts of disease have affected its management ... one finds a gratifying mastery of recent as well as classic scholarship in medical history and a careful sidestepping of positivistic excesses. Hudson moves his story along deftly throught the judicious choice of examples and quotations; the human element is never lost.... Disease and Its Control ... is a fresh and welcome synthesis of historical scholarship that will be accessible to interested laymen." Annals of Internal Medicine "Dr. Hudson has written a lively, informative, and thougth-provoking book [that] will appeal to physicians, medical students, and that element in the general public that likes to think about what has been--and is--going on in medicine."-Journal of the American Medical Association

?Lucidly written, addressed to problems that are likely to interest medical professionals, the books should appeal not only to them but also to a wider readership interested in the history of ideas." ISIS "This book is ... a survey history of medicine from the earliest times, centered thematically on how changing concepts of disease have affected its management ... one finds a gratifying mastery of recent as well as classic scholarship in medical history and a careful sidestepping of positivistic excesses. Hudson moves his story along deftly throught the judicious choice of examples and quotations; the human element is never lost.... Disease and Its Control ... is a fresh and welcome synthesis of historical scholarship that will be accessible to interested laymen." Annals of Internal Medicine "Dr. Hudson has written a lively, informative, and thougth-provoking book [that] will appeal to physicians, medical students, and that element in the general public that likes to think about what has been--and is--going on in medicine.?-Journal of the American Medical Association

About the Author

ROBERT P. HUDSON received his M.D. from the University of Kansas where he is currently Chairman of the Department of the History and Philosophy of Medicine.