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  • The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease

    Case Histories

    by K. Codell Carter ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    Much of contemporary medical theory and practice focuses on the identification of specific causes of disease. However, this has not always been the case: until the early nineteenth century physicians thought of diseases in quite different terms. The modern quest for causes of disease can be seen as a single Lakatosian research programme. One can track the rise and elaboration of this programme by ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Decline of Therapeutic Bloodletting and the Collapse of Traditional Medicine

    by K. Codell Carter ...
    Over the course of a single generation, without significant discussion or debate, a key practice of traditional medicine was almost completely abandoned in mid-nineteenth-century Europe. K. Codell Carter's book describes how and why bloodletting was abandoned, noting that it was part of a process in which innovation was required so that modern scientific medicine could begin. This book is a ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Childbed Fever

    A Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweis

    by K. Codell Carter, Barbara R. Carter ...
    The life and work of Ignaz Semmelweis is among the most engaging and moving stories in the history of science. Childbed Fever makes the Semmelweis story available to a general audience, while placing his life, and his discovery, in the context of his times. In 1846 Vienna, as what would now be called a head resident of obstetrics, Semmelweis confronted the terrible reality of childbed fever, which ... Read more

    $65.99 USD