Healing the World. From Anesthesia to Psychoanalysis: How Discoveries of the Golden Age of Medicine Saved Your Life
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In this book, you will meet those who invented anesthesia and an antiseptic, saved millions of women from postpartum fever, allowed you to look inside the living human body and learned to translate blood.
Author, a German doctor and historian, invites you to a trip dedicated to numerous discoveries of the Golden Age of Medicine. Brilliant scientists and doctors of this time made a tremendous revolution in the world: they developed ways to diagnose serious diseases, created the rules for caring for patients, and reduced the risk to the patient’s life during surgery. We highly appreciate their achievements today, but we can’t imagine how much they changed the life of mankind.
Ronald Gerses sheds light on amazing relations between scientific and technological progress and the quality of human life.
- How did the growth of cities led to an increase in the number of people overweight?
- How were the first selfies and the first X-ray?
- What is the connection between the development of railway communication and post-traumatic stress disorder?
The answers to these and many other questions are waiting for you inside
Author, a German doctor and historian, invites you to a trip dedicated to numerous discoveries of the Golden Age of Medicine. Brilliant scientists and doctors of this time made a tremendous revolution in the world: they developed ways to diagnose serious diseases, created the rules for caring for patients, and reduced the risk to the patient’s life during surgery. We highly appreciate their achievements today, but we can’t imagine how much they changed the life of mankind.
Ronald Gerses sheds light on amazing relations between scientific and technological progress and the quality of human life.
- How did the growth of cities led to an increase in the number of people overweight?
- How were the first selfies and the first X-ray?
- What is the connection between the development of railway communication and post-traumatic stress disorder?
The answers to these and many other questions are waiting for you inside
Author:
Author:Рональд Д. Герсте
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Medical Books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:12+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-04-166395-7
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