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Book Catalog
Medicine: Perspectives in History and Artby Robert E. Greenspan, M. D.Hard cover, 596 pp. Standard Edition Book Size - 9 1/4" x 12" Deluxe Edition Book Size - 9 1/4" x 12" Medicine: Perspectives in History and Art is the story of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and quackery revealed through art, anecdote, and instrumentation. This is not, however, a comprehensive history of medicine and art nor is it a catalogue of antiques; that information may be found elsewhere. This book is intended to allow you to experience medicine personally through the quotes, letters, and art of physicians, patients, nurses, writers, painters, and poets who encountered terrible diseases that, for the most part, have disappeared from the pages of modern medical texts. Included here are great discoveries and controversies along with the blunders, deceptions, and tragedies participated in by inspiring heroes, as well as by opportunistic scoundrels. The purpose of this book is to return a voice not only to those who made significant contributions to our present medical understanding, but to those whose suffering helped guide the hand of their struggling physicians so that they might discover some of the lifesaving cures we enjoy today.
Chapter 1 - ANATOMY Classical Science Press also offers a Deluxe Collector’s Edition of this volume. The edition is quarter-bound in goatskin with raised bands, leather-embossed spine label, and marbled boards.
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