Medicine - An Imperfect Science - Beau Livre

Medicine is as much a cultural phenomenon as a scientific one. Constantly evolving through a history of triumphs, tragedies and fads, our search for good health has been a long one. Medicine : An Imperfect Science accompanies a new series of galleries at the Science Museum in London — Medicine : The Wellcome Galleries — which form the most extensive display on the history of medicine in the world, encompassing the historic, personal collection of Henry Wellcome as well as medical objects collected by the Science Museum.
This book explores the history of the medicine collection and what the objects themselves can tell us about this area of science, health and culture. Through ten wide-ranging thematic chapters, illustrated with objects and historical records from the Science Museum's vast collection, Medicine : An Imperfect Science offers a unique opportunity to engage with the history of medicine in previously unexplored ways.