Kill or Cure: An Illustrated History of Medicine (Record no. 295595)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781409332725
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 610. 9 PAR-K
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Steve Parker
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Kill or Cure: An Illustrated History of Medicine
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Dorling Kindersley
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2013
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 400 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Beliefs and traditions, to 900 -- The rise of scientific medicine, 900-1820 -- Medicine in the Industrial Age, 1820-1920 -- Modern medicine, 1920-2000 -- Genes and future dreams, 2000-present.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. This is a gripping tale that traces medicine\'s extraordinary history. Kill or Cure tells the riveting history of medicine from chipping holes in skulls to the latest gene therapy and revolutionary cancer treatments. Compelling stories of drama and detective work reveal the trial and error behind man\'s endless search for cures to diseases and how lucky we are to have the medicines we do today. Uncover the gripping and sometimes gruesome life and death tales behind the medical advances that we take for granted through key figures\' diaries and notebooks, showing you discoveries through the eyes of the people who were there at the time. Plague and other global epidemics, the roots of psychiatry and the arrival of robot surgeons are brought to life, with maps, timelines and stunning images ranging from Roman surgical instruments and medieval bloodletting to artificial hearts and the latest scanners. Written by Steve Parker, a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society and author of over 250 books, Kill or Cure is the perfect prescription for anyone interested in the history of medicine, terrible diseases and revolutionary cures.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Diseases -- History. Alternative medicine -- History. Medicine -- History.
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 01/09/2015 1 610. 9 PAR-K DCB2421 25/05/2022 10/03/2022 19/07/2019 Book