Short history of medical thought

Abstract

Perspectives on the nature and origins of illness are reflected in the ideas of the effective treatment and shape the face of medicine as an institution. Historical outline examines the role of science and application of scientific knowledge in medicine, in dialogue with ethics and philosophy.

Keywords

• Medicine in Antiquity
• Medicine in Medieval Europe
• establishment of universities
• The Rise of Natural Science
• Physiology
• Clinical medicine
• Pharmacology
• Genetics
• Ethics.