Transcription: The history of medicine examines the history and interrelation of disease, health and medicine over more than 2,000 years. Particular emphasis is placed on the past 150 years which have been a critical era in the development of medicine. Learn about the complex functions that medicine has fulfilled in society and explore the shifting and often ambiguous meanings of sickness. You can also examine the patient-doctor relationship and the nature of medical and clinical advances. Ranging from the Hippocratic oath to present-day medical ethics, this section offers a definitive guide to the history o ...
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