Author: Pollak, Kurt.
Title: The healers. The doctor, then and now.
Description: London: Nelson, 1968; x+246pp., 2 indexes, bibliogr., 32 plates, 8vo, boards w. dustjacket. Sl. traces of damp. ¶ 'a unique piece of social history, a comprehensive account of the medical profession from the Stone Age to the present day. (...) [A] highly readable and absorbing, yet deeply serious book.' (blurb). Translated from the German original (1963) by E. Ashworth Underwood.

Keywords: EW I Medical Literature geneeskunde, gesch. history of medicine