History of Medicine

Introduction
Chapter 1. Medicine in the primitive society. Beginnings
of healing and folk medicine
Chapter 2. The dawn of civilization. Healing and
traditional folk medicine in ancient states: Egypt,
Mesopotamia, Judaea, China, India and Tibet
2.1. Traditional folk medicine in Mesopotamia, ancient
Egypt and other countries
2.1.1. Healing in Babylon and Assyria
2.1.2. Ancient Egyptian medicine
2.1.3. Medicine in Judaea
2.2. Medicine in ancient China, India, and Tibet
Chapter 3. Development of traditional folk medicine and
first steps of scientific medicine in antique period in
Greece, Alexandria, and Rome
3.1. Medicine in ancient Greece
3.2. Medicine in Alexandria
3.3. Medicine in ancient Rome
Chapter 4. Medieval medicine in Byzantine Empire and
in oriental nations. Development of clinical surveillance
in medicine of caliphates, Kievan Rus and Muscovite
state
4.1. Medicine in caliphates
4.2. Medicine in Armenia and Georgia
4.3. Medicine in the Kievan Rus and Muscovite state
Chapter 5. Medicine of early and late Middle Ages.
Renaissance. Parting with unscientific scholastic and
religious principles, development of empiric knowledge
and clinical observation
Chapter 6. Medicine of the modem age. Origin and
development of empiric knowledge and clinical
observation
6.1. Medicine in Western Europe in the 18th century
6.2. Medicine in Russia in the 18th century
6.3. Medicine of the 19th century
6.3.1. Medical, biological and neurophysiological studies
6.3.2. Anatomic research, development of surgery
6.3.3. Development of pathology, general medicine,
neuropathology, psychiatry
6.3.4. Continuing differentiation of medical sciences (on
the example of obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics,
ophthalmology, dermatology)
6.3.5. Bacterial era. Development of microbiology
6.3.6. New science and technology, radiology and
other
6.3.7. Development of hygiene
Chapter 7. History of contemporary medicine
7.1. The early 20th century. Healthcare in Russia
before the October Revolution of 1917
7.2. Milestones in the history of Soviet healthcare
7.3. Healthcare in the post-Soviet period
7.4. Factors of development of medicine in the 20th
century
7.4.1. Material and ideological support of medicine
7.4.2. Public health and trends thereof
7.5. Outstanding achievements of the 20th century
medicine
7.6. General concepts of medicine of the 20th century
Conclusion
List of recommended reading on the history of medicine