20th-Century Medicine / Humanities Books
Medicine's
most revolutionary advances have occurred since 1900. By the end of the 20th century,
medical advances helped to increase the average person's life expectancy by almost
30 years. As people lived longer, new medical challenges emerged. Heart disease,
cancer, stroke, and other conditions often associated with aging replaced infectious
diseases as the leading causes of death. Physicians began to devote greater attention
to preventing disease and keeping patients healthy into advanced age. Biomedical
research also shifted focus to the most basic causes of diseases, including defects
in individual genes. |
