Renaissance medicine / Nicola Barber.
Material type:
- 9781410946621 (hb (freestyle express))
- 9781410946683 (pb (freestyle express))
- 610 23
- R141 .B37 2013b
Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-47) and index.
New ways of thinking -- Breakthroughs in surgery -- Scientific advances -- Renaissance diseases -- Treatments -- Doctors and surgeons -- Caring for the sick.
Renaissance Medicine looks at the new "scientific" ways of learning and experimentation of the Renaissance period, to show what health and disease were like in the Old and New Worlds.