Medicine: A History of the Healing Arts

by Roy Porter

A history of therapeutic practices, from ancient rituals to the age of computers, explores traditions from the East and West including herbalism, energy medicine, healing mental illness, and more, and argues that a combination of the Eastern and Western traditions would provide the best healing. Original. IP.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

224 pages, Paperback

Published October 13, 1997

About the author

Roy's books cover several fields: the history of geology, London, 18th-Century British ideas and society, medicine, madness, quackery, patients and practitioners, literature and art, on which subjects (and others) he published over 200 books are articles.

List of works can be found @ wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Porter )

Reviews

[fff · Rating 5 out of 5]

An interesting read, featuring an in-depth analysis of how medicine was practised in the past. However, the scope could have been broader.