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The Medicine Book: Big Ideas Simple Explained (Big Ideas) by D.K. Publishing is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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How are illnesses diagnosed? When did the first successful organ transplant take place? Why are some pandemics so deadly? This book explores big questions like these, explaining the breakthroughs and discoveries that have shaped our modern-day understanding of medicine and helped us protect and promote our health. Written in plain English, The Medicine Book cuts through the jargon and is packed with pithy explanations of the most important milestones in medical history, with step-by-step diagrams and witty illustrations that untangle knotty concepts. From ancient medical practices, such as herbal medications and balancing the humours, through groundbreaking work including Jenner's experiments with cowpox, which laid the basis for vaccination, The Medicine Book offers an engaging overview of medical history across the world all the way into the 21st century with gene manipulation, immunotherapy, and robotics and telesurgery. Covering the role that therapies and drugs have played in the human quest to treat and prevent disease, the establishment of hospitals and later international medical bodies, like the WHO, and medical science's response to new challenges, such as accelerated

Who reads The Medicine Book: Big Ideas Simple Explained (Big Ideas)?

Author

D.K. Publishing

Publisher

Kindersley Ltd., Dorling; DK

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780241471258

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Clinical Medicine, Medicine