The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine: Revised Edition
- ISBN-10
- 0465058957
- ISBN-13
- 9780465058952
- Series
- The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 608
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-11-06
- Publisher
- Basic Books (AZ)
- Author
- James Le Fanu M.D.
Description
An uncompromising analysis of the troubled future of public health and medicine at the dawn of the twentieth century describes the dramatic advances that occurred in the postwar years and the constraints that have crippled modern medical research.
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