The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind
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This edition does not include illustrations.A definitive study of the history of medicine, from the earliest humans to the present day.Medicine is advancing at an incredible rate. We now have the ability to overcome sickness but also to transform the nature of life itself: in many parts of the world, human existence has simply ceased to be ‘nasty, brutish and short’. In this titanic history of medicine and disease, Roy Porter examines the traditions of East and West to chart how this revolution has come about.Covering medical milestones big and small – from dissection to surgery and from anaesthesia to AIDS – Roy Porter’s masterpiece is both a superlative history of medicine and a sweeping survey of human life and death.

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Roy Porter. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

THE. GREATEST BENEFIT. TO MANKIND

ROY PORTER

COPYRIGHT

PRAISE

DEDICATION

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER II THE ROOTS OF MEDICINE

MALARIA

THE ERA OF EPIDEMICS

PLAGUE

TYPHUS

COLONIZATION AND INDUSTRIALIZATION

MAKING SENSE OF SICKNESS

APPROACHES TO HEALING

BODY LORE

CHAPTER III ANTIQUITY

MESOPOTAMIA

EGYPT

GREECE

HIPPOCRATES

MEDICINE AND PHILOSOPHY

ALEXANDRIAN MEDICINE

MEDICINE IN THE ROMAN ERA

GALEN

MEDICINE IN THE AGE OF GALEN

INSANITY

CHAPTER IV MEDICINE AND FAITH

CHRISTIANITY

THE LEGACY OF GALEN

ISLAM

HEALTH CARE

CHAPTER V THE MEDIEVAL WEST

THE WEST COMES TO LIFE AGAIN

RELIGION

HOSPITALS

LEARNED MEDICINE

MEDICINE AND THE PEOPLE

LEPROSY

PLAGUE

MADNESS

WOMEN

BODIES

CHAPTER VI INDIAN MEDICINE

EARLY INDIA

AYURVEDIC MEDICINE

NEW ARRIVALS

CHAPTER VII TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE

CHINESE HEALING

THE TRADITION

PRACTICE

MODERN DEVELOPMENTS

CHAPTER VIII RENAISSANCE. THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW

SYPHILIS

THE MEDICAL RENAISSANCE

ANATOMY

SURGERY

PHARMACY

THE MIND

MEDICINE IN SOCIETY

CHAPTER IX THE NEW SCIENCE

PARACELSUS

MEDICAL CHEMISTRY

PARACELSAN PHYSIC AND POLITICS

HARVEY

DESCARTES

RESEARCHING THE BODY

THE MICROSCOPE

MEDICAL PRACTICE

CURING

MEDICINE AND THE PEOPLE

MADNESS

CHAPTER X ENLIGHTENMENT. IN SEARCH OF MEDICAL SCIENCE

MEDICINE IN PRACTICE

THE STUDY OF DISEASE

PATHOLOGY

THERAPEUTICS

INSANITY

CHILDBIRTH

THE PREVENTION OF SMALLPOX

SURGERY

MEDICINE AND THE PEOPLE

MEDICINE, STATE AND SOCIETY: THE PROFESSION AND ITS INSTITUTIONS

DISEASE AND THE LARGER PICTURE

CHAPTER XI SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

PARIS MEDICINE

THE INFLUENCE OF PARIS

GERMANY AND THE LABORATORY

PHARMACOLOGY

EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE IN. BRITAIN AND AMERICA

FRANCE: CLAUDE BERNARD

CLINICAL PRACTICE AND CLINICAL SCIENCE

CHAPTER XII NINETEENTH-CENTURY MEDICAL CARE

THE MEDICAL PROFESSION

FRANCE

GERMANY

BRITAIN

THE ADMISSION OF WOMEN

PRIVATE PRACTICE

SURGERY

HOSPITALS AND NURSING

SPECIALIZATION

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

CHAPTER XIII PUBLIC MEDICINE

INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY

PUBLIC HEALTH

PUBLIC HEALTH AND POLITICS

AMERICA

THE ENFORCEMENT OF HEALTH

THE BALANCE SHEET

CHAPTER XIV FROM PASTEUR TO PENICILLIN

MICRO – ORGANISMS

PASTEUR

KOCH

DEBATES OVER IMMUNITY

CHEMOTHERAPY

ANTIBIOTICS AND THE DRUGS REVOLUTION

CHAPTER XV TROPICAL MEDICINE, WORLD DISEASES. DISEASES OF WARM CLIMATES

TROPICAL MEDICINE

MALARIA

YELLOW FEVER

SLEEPING SICKNESS

MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

INTERNATIONAL MEDICINE

NEW DISEASES

CHAPTER XVI PSYCHIATRY

THE RISE OF THE ASYLUM

THE ASYLUM UNDER FIRE

GERMAN PSYCHIATRY

DEGENERATION

FREUD

PSYCHOANALYSIS

DESPERATE REMEDIES

MODERN DEVELOPMENTS

CHAPTER XVII MEDICAL RESEARCH. LAUNCHING A RESEARCH TRADITION

NEUROLOGY

NEUROPATHOLOGY

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

BIO CHEMISTRY AND NUTRITION

CHAPTER XVIII CLINICAL SCIENCE

ENDOCRINOLOGY

CHEMISTRY AND THE NERVES

CANCER

CARDIOLOGY

GENETICS

IMMUNOLOGY

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER XIX SURGERY. AFTER LISTER

NEW OPERATIONS

SEEING INTO INNER SPACE

NEW SURGICAL FIELDS

THE HEART

TRANSPLANTS

REPRODUCTION

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER XX MEDICINE, STATE AND SOCIETY

MEDICINE AND THE STATE

POLICING HEALTH

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER XXI MEDICINE AND THE PEOPLE

THE PATIENT, THE DOCTOR, AND THE BEDSIDE

MEDICALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS

CHAPTER XXII THE PAST, THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE

FURTHER READING

BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

SURVEY HISTORIES AND TEXTBOOKS

BROAD STUDIES COVERING MANY CENTURIES

WORKS OF REFERENCE

RELATED STUDIES, HISTORIES OF SCIENCE

CONCEPTS OF DISEASE

ANTHOLOGIES, LITERATURE AND CULTURE

GENERAL HISTORIES

CHAPTER II: THE ROOTS OF MEDICINE

CHAPTER III: ANTIQUITY

CHAPTER IV: MEDICINE AND FAITH

CHAPTER V: THE MEDIEVAL WEST

CHAPTER VI: INDIAN MEDICINE

CHAPTER VII: CHINESE MEDICINE

CHAPTER VIII: RENAISSANCE

CHAPTER IX: THE NEW SCIENCE

CHAPTER X: ENLIGHTENMENT

CHAPTER XI: SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

CHAPTER XII: NINETEENTH-CENTURY MEDICAL CARE

CHAPTER XIII: PUBLIC MEDICINE

CHAPTER XIV: FROM PASTEUR TO PENICILLIN

CHAPTER XV: TROPICAL MEDICINE, WORLD DISEASES

CHAPTER XVI: PSYCHIATRY

CHAPTER XVII: MEDICAL RESEARCH

CHAPTER XVIII: CLINICAL SCIENCE

CHAPTER XIX: SURGERY

CHAPTER XX: MEDICINE, STATE AND SOCIETY

CHAPTER XXI: MEDICINE AND THE PEOPLE

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NOTE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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Death affords a good instance of the scope for different interpretations in the light of different criteria. The nature of ‘physical’ death is highly negotiable; in recent times western tests have shifted from cessation of spontaneous breathing to ‘brain death’. This involves more than the matter of a truer definition: it corresponds with western values (which prize the brain) and squares with the capacities of hospital technology. Some cultures think of death as a sudden happening, others regard dying as a process advancing from the moment of birth and continuing beyond the grave. Bodies are thus languages as well as envelopes of flesh; and sick bodies have eloquent messages for society.

It became common wisdom in the West from around 1800 that the medicine of Orientals and ‘savages’ was mere mumbo-jumbo, and had to be superseded. Medical missions moved into the colonies alongside their religious brethren, followed in due course by the massive health programmes of the modern international aid organizations. By all such means Europeans and Americans sought to stamp out indigenous practices and beliefs, from the African witchdoctors and spirit mediums to the vaidyas and hakims of Hindu and Islamic medicine in Asia. Native practices were grounded in superstition and were perilous to boot; colonial authorities moved in to prohibit practices and cults which they saw as medically, religiously or politically objectionable, thereby becoming arbiters of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ medicine. Western medicine grew aggressive, convinced of its unique scientific basis and superior therapeutic powers.

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