The Story of Medicine
In The Story of Medicine, esteemed medical historian Mary Dobson charts the ways in which we have fought with disease and injury over several millennia - from the ‘humours’ of Hippocrates to Florence Nightingale’s nursing reforms and beyond.
Richly illustrated with paintings, illustrations and photographs, this volume is filled with the trauma as well as the triumph of medical science: including the pain of the surgeon’s knife in the centuries before anaesthetics, the body-snatchers of the nineteenth century and the realities of battlefield surgery.
Mary Dobson is a revered historian of medicine and an expert in the history of tropical and infectious diseases.
She is the author of numerous books and articles ranging from academic titles to popular science and history, including Disease: The Extraordinary Stories Behind History’s Deadliest Killers (Quercus).
She has held a number of prestigious Research Fellowships and was Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine and Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford.