McKeown The Role of Medicine

Dream, Mirage, or Nemesis?
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5462-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 56, 226 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

In analyzing the factors that have improved health and enhanced longevity during the last three centuries, Thomas McKeown contends that nutritional, environmental, and behavioral changes have been and will be more important than specific medical measures, especially clinical or curative" measures.

Originally published in 1980.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

McKeown, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. v
Preface to the Second Edition, pg. vii
Introduction, pg. xi
1. Evolution of Health Concepts, pg. 3
2. Inheritance, Environment and Disease, pg. 12
3. Decline of Mortality, pg. 29
4. Infectious Diseases, pg. 45
5. Non-Infective Conditions, pg. 66
6. Health in the Past, pg. 71
7. Health in the Future, pg. 79
8. Medical Achievement, pg. 91
9. Non-Personal Health Services, pg. 117
10. Clinical Services, pg. 131
11. Medical Education, pg. 143
12. Medical Research, pg. 156
13. Dream, Mirage or Nemesis?, pg. 176
14. Medicine as an Institution, pg. 190
Index, pg. 199