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Medical traditions encapsulate the knowledge of life, health, nutrition, diseases and their treatment patiently assembled by populations over a long period of t

However much the three great traditions of medicine - Galenic, Chinese and Ayurvedic - differed from each other, they had one thing in common: scholarship. The

Written as a key introductory textbook for students, this work explores the reasons behind the expansion of the field of the history of medicine and health.

One hundred and twenty-four selections survey the outstanding writings and discoveries in all aspects of medicine

In three sections, the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. It explore medical de