La Medicina en la Historia

The History of Medicine

Rodriguez, Echavarria
Medica Panamericana
360 pages
ISBN: 978-6078546381              
April 2021

This textbook fulfills the need to explore the history of medicine. Written with scientific rigor, it covers the panorama of history, from the first steps of the genus Homo up to the present. It examines the characteristics of the various medical models [conception of the disease and general orientation of the therapy] and places them in socioeconomic contexts, as well as seeking to understand the role they play on the subjects of that story: the patient and the doctor.