In textbook the formation and development of medico-hygienic knowledge in Primitive society are considered as well as formation of medicine of Ancient World, Middle ages, New and Modern time. For students of higher medical education institutions, historians of medicine and wide circle of readers.
CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
CHAPTER 1. MEDICINE AND PRIMITIVE SOCIETY............................................................. 7
Features of primitive society. Antroposociogenesis............................................... 8
Taboo, animism, fetishism, magic, totemism......................................................... 10
The hypothesis of the “golden age”.......................................................................... 13
Medical treatment in primitive society................................................................... 14
CHAPTER 2. ANCIENT WORLD MEDICINE (Ancient East, Antiquity)........................... 17
Medicine of ancient east ............................................................................................18
Mesopotamia...............................................................................................................19
Egypt ............................................................................................................................22
India............................................................................................................................. 26
Iran............................................................................................................................... 29
China........................................................................................................................... 31
Greece.......................................................................................................................... 33
Rome............................................................................................................................ 39
CHAPTER 3. MEDICINE OF THE MIDDLE AGES ................................................................47
Byzantine Empire....................................................................................................... 48
East. Arabic-speaking caliphates............................................................................. 50
Transcaucasia ..............................................................................................................54
Europe......................................................................................................................... 55
Kievan Rus ..................................................................................................................59
CHAPTER 4. MEDICINE ON THE EARLY NEW TIME, EPOCH OF RENAISSANCE........ 63
Europe......................................................................................................................... 64
Medicine in Ukraine.................................................................................................. 77
America........................................................................................................................83
CHAPTER 5. MEDICINE OF THE LATE NEW TIME............................................................. 85
Biomedical Sciences.................................................................................................. 86
Pathological physiology. Physiology....................................................................... 88
Clinical science........................................................................................................... 89
Medico-social science, hygiene and epidemiology................................................94
CHAPTER 6. MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE IN THE MODERN TIME......................... 101
Nobel prizes in physiology and medicine............................................................. 119
International coooperation in the area of health care......................................... 120
LITERATURE.................................................................... 124