Category:History of medicine

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All human societies have medical beliefs - birth, death, disease and cures are explained in some manner. Historically, throughout the history of medicine world illness has often been attributed to witchcraft, demons or the will of the gods, ideas that still retain some power, even in 'modern' societies, with faith healing and shrines still common.

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[–] History of medicine
[+] Medical historians
[+] American Civil War medicine
[+] Defunct hospitals
[+] Epidemics
[+] History of anatomy
[+] History of ancient medicine
[+] History of cosmetics
[+] History of mental health
[+] History of neuroscience
[+] Humorism
[+] Islamic medicine
[+] Medical museums
[+] Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine
[+] Obsolete medical theories
[+] Louis Pasteur
[+] Medicine timelines
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