This book is . . . a survey history of medicine from the earliest times, centered thematically on how changing concepts of disease have affected its management. . . . One finds a gratifying mastery of recent as well as classic scholarship in medical history and a careful sidestepping of positivistic excesses. . . . Disease and Its Control is a fresh and welcome synthesis of historical scholarship that will be accessible to interested laymen. Annals of Internal Medicine
ROBERT P. HUDSON received his M.D. from the University of Kansas where he is currently Chairman of the Department of the History and Philosophy of Medicine.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations of JournalsThe Birth and Death of DiseasesDisease and HistoryDisease as SupernaturalDisease as Natural and GeneralizedThe Anatomical IdeaDisease as LocalizedThe Concept of Experimental MedicineSpecific CausationSpecific PreventionSpecific TherapyHealth, Disease, and IllnessAppendix: The Hippocratic OathBibliographyIndex