Dentistry's sometimes tortuous development as a profession is related to the great events of history in general as well as to advances in science and pertinent social changes. The results of careful and thorough research are presented in an impressive, yet interesting and readable way. Comprehensive lists of citations provide the means - and impetus - for still further research. From the hieroglyph for the dental therapist to the development of the reclining chair, no facet of dentistry's history is overlooked. [editor].
Type: BOOK - Published: 1981 - Publisher: Quintessenz Verlags-Gmbh
Dentistry's sometimes tortuous development as a profession is related to the great events of history in general as well as to advances in science and pertinent social changes. The results of careful and thorough research are presented in an impressive, yet interesting and readable way. Comprehensive lists of citations provide
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-09 - Publisher: Columbia University Press
Covering the social, cultural, and political development of Tibet from the seventh century to the modern period, this resource reproduces essential, hard-to-find essays from the past fifty years of Tibetan studies, along with several new contributions. Beginning with Tibet's emergence as a regional power and concluding with its profound contemporary
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-14 - Publisher: Duke University Press
Essays illuminate the extraordinarily varied and dynamic intellectual developments underway in India and Tibet during the three centuries prior to the consolidation of British imperial power in 1800.