Vrachi : voskhititel'nye i tragichnye istorii o tom, kak nizmennye strasti - Shervin Nuland

In essence, the history of medicine is the history of humanity itself, with all its ups and downs, its audacious but vain desire to comprehend the truth and the ultimate purpose of being. The history of medicine can be imagined in the form of an endless string of books, characters, successive theories and human misconceptions or quite other than anything else, as a true quintessence of the development of culture. Here is one of the most beautiful books about how our ideas about health developed: from Hippocrates to the first heart surgeries.