What does the Hippocratic oath actually say? Who originally discovered antibiotics? And when were hospitals invented? Find out the answers to these questions and many others in 30-Second Medicine. Taking the story from the first medicines direct from nature to today's keyhole surgery, and with a look toward future developments, it's an engrossing journey.
The 50 Most Important Structures And System In The Body, Each Explained In Half A Minute
30-Second Anatomy gets straight to the heart of the matter: how your body operates. Whether you are a student of medicine or biology, an artist, an athlete, or simply dying to know what your physician means when he mentions your plexus or your humerus, this is the quickest route to get under your own skin. Or, indeed, to understand exactly how your own skin works. Dissecting the detail of everything from your bones to your brain into 30-Second summaries, using no more than two pages, 300 words, and one picture, this is the hip way to understand the basic structures and systems that are you. Illustrated with gory graphics and supported by biographies of medical pioneers, time lines, and glossaries, it's the book of body parts that would have kept Burke and Hare in at nights.
Medizin in 30 Sekunden beantwortet diese und ähnliche Fragen in kurzen Beiträgen zu Krankheitsbildern und Diagnostik, Therapie und Pharmazie auf je einer Doppelseite in Wort und Bild. Die Themenvielfalt reicht von Naturmedikamenten und Homöopathie über die moderne minimalinvasive Chirurgie bis hin zu bionischen Gliedmaßen und individualisierter Medikamentierung. Porträts von Pionieren der Medizin runden das Bild ab.