Sickness, recovery and death: a history and forecast of ill health

نویسنده

  • F. B. Smith
چکیده

working conditions made them more susceptible to many infectious and parasitic diseases). He describes the types of home and professional care provided to sick slaves by their masters and other slaves. This book contains several outstanding and many valuable essays. It does not alter the support of this reviewer for Cassedy's explanation of the assertions of the distinctiveness of southern science and medicine.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Medical History

دوره 35  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1990