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Medicine and Western Civilization (Paperback, New)
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Medicine and Western Civilization (Paperback, New)
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This fabulous anthology is sure to be a core text for history of
medicine and social science classes in colleges across the country.
In order to demonstrate how medical research has influenced Western
cultural perspectives, the editors have collected original works
from 61 different authors around nine major themes (among them
""Anatomy and Destiny,"" ""Psyche and Soma,"" and ""The
Construction of Pain, Suffering, and Death""). The authors range
from Aristotle, the Bible, and Louis Pasteur, to Masters and
Johnson, Ernest Hemingway, and Simone de Beauvoir. The primary
sources selected to illustrate the themes are well chosen and
contrast with each other nicely. However, the brief background
material for the selections center around the authors and offer
little or no discussion about the selections' relevance to the
topics at hand. This book would be best read in a class or group
where the texts' meaning in relation to each other can be
discussed, but the book can stand alone if the reader is prepared
to do some critical thinking.
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