Origins and Development of Medical Imaging by T. Doby; G. AlkerCall Number: WN 11.1 .D635O 1997
ISBN: 080932010X
Publication Date: 1997
"For thousands of years, horror of the dead, superstition, and oppressive decrees prevented our ancestors from looking inside the human body; in ancient civilizations, diagnostics were based on imagination and theory, with only limited observation. So people developed suppositions about health and disease without knowing how the liver, heart, brain, and blood vessels looked or functioned. In tracing the history of medical imaging, Doby and Alker establish that it was not until the Renaissance and the detailed drawings of human anatomy by Da Vinci and Vesalius that successful internal imaging of the human body was born. This book covers the development of medical imaging."