1. Paleopathology and paleomedicine -- 2. Medicine in ancient civilizations : Mesopotamia and Egypt -- 3. The medical traditions of India and China -- 4. Greco-Roman medicine -- 5. The middle ages -- 6. The Renaissance and the scientific revolution -- 7. Native civilizations and cultures of the Americas -- 8. The Americanization of old world medicine -- 9. Clinical and preventive medicine -- 10. The medical counterculture : unorthodox and alternative medicine -- 11. Women and medicine -- 12. The art and science of surgery -- 13. Medical microbiology and public health -- 14. Diagnostics and therapeutics.