Synopsis
A pictorial history of dentistry, which traces the development of an ancient healing art into an exact science. Though it has had its share of amusing folk remedies, colourful quacks and cults, dentistry was often far ahead of other branches of medicine.

Synopsis
This illustrated history of medicine examines through popular and professional perception the history and interrelation of disease, health and medicine over more than 2000 years. Readers can trace the chronological story of key developments and events in medical history from antiquity onwards, while at the same time engaging with the issues, discoveries and controversies that have beset and characterized medical progress. The book weaves a connected narrative that gives equal weight to disease and to doctors, to scientific medicine and to society, to patients and to practitioners. An important feature of the volume is its extensive coverage of the past 150 years - a critical era in the development of medicine. It also offers glimpses into the future. There is good colour illustration and added reference material.

Synopsis
The personal story of a Jewish dental student recounts his harrowing experiences as a prisoner of the Nazis, where he encountered Josef Mengele, witnessed his father's murder, and was forced to work on his fellow inmates.

Book Description
Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe, in the highly successful series of New Approaches, offers undergraduate students a concise introduction to a subject rich in historical excitement and interest. Bringing together the best and most innovative recent research, Mary Lindemann examines medicine from a social and cultural perspective, rather than a narrowly scientific one. Drawing on medical anthropology, sociology and ethics as well as cultural and social history, she focuses on the experience of illness and on patients and folk healers as much as on the rise of medical science, doctors and hospitals. Mary Lindemann is a distinguished scholar in the history of medicine and writes with exceptional clarity on this fascinating subject; her book will be essential reading for all students of the history of medicine, and provide invaluable context for historians of early modern Europe in general.

Synopsis
Part of a series entitled "New Approaches", this work offers undergraduate students a concise introduction to a subject rich in interest for historians. Bringing together recent research, the author examines medicine from a social and cultural perspective, rather than a narrowly scientific one. Drawing on medical anthropology, sociology and ethics as well as cultural and social history, she focuses on the experience of illness and on patients and folk healers as much as on the rise of medical science, doctors and hospitals. The book should offer useful reading for all students of the history of medicine, and provide a context for historians of early modern Europe in general.

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