The Cambridge history of medicine / edited by Roy Porter.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

vi, 408 pages : map ; 21 cm

Rev. ed.

Rev. ed. of : The Cambridge illustrated history of medicine / edited by Roy Porter.

The history of disease / Kenneth F. Kiple -- The rise of medicine / Vivian Nutton -- What is disease? / Roy Porter -- Primary care / Edward Shorter -- Medical science / Roy Porter -- Hospitals and surgery / Roy Porter -- Drug treatment and the rise of pharmacology / Miles Weatherall -- Mental illness / Roy Porter -- Medicine, society, and the state / John Pickstone -- Looking to the future (1996) / Geoff Watts -- Addendum: Looking to the future revisited / Geoff Watts.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-382) and indexes.