The Laboratory Revolution in Medicine

Essays by leading researchers on the nature and genesis of laboratory medicine.

The Middle Ages marked a time when religion and superstition dominated all thinking and stalled the pursuit of new ideas. This book examines the scientific revo

This consideration of the underlying forces which helped to produce a revolution in 17th century medicine sets out to show how, in the period between 1630 and 1

Using original sources, this significant text looks at the transformation of Chinese medicine from a marginal, side-lined medical practice of the early twentiet

D.--from the Introduction "Canadian Bulletin of Medical History"