PART I UNDERSTANDING AND MISUNDERSTANDING OVER THE AGESChapter 1 Magic versus Reason: the "Pathology" of AntiquityJan G. van den TweelChapter 2 The Coming of Darkness; Galen and His HeritageJan G. van den TweelChapter 3 Arabic-Islamic Medicine: a Bridge between the Ancient World and Early RenaissanceSamir S. AmrChapter 4 The Renaissance AnatomistsStephen A. GellerChapter 5 The Age of the AutopsyJan G. van den Tweel and Clive R. Taylor PART II THE AGE OF THE MICROSCOPE. FROM WHOLE BODY TO TISSUEAND CELLChapter 6 FrancePaul De Saint MaurChapter 7 Britain: "A Struggle for Primacy" ~Clive R. Taylor and Stephen A. GellerChapter 8 Austria, Germany and RussiaRoland Sedivy and Vsevolod A. ZinserlingChapter 9 AmericaCarol L. StarrChapter 10 ChinaJiang GuChapter 11 JapanRobert Y. Osamura Part III THE "MODERN AGE". MILESTONES IN THE DAWN OF SUBSPECIALISATIONChapter 12 The Cardiovascular SystemGaetano Thiene, Cristina Basso and Fabio ZampieriChapter 13 The Lung: Environmental Diseases and Pneumonias. ~Russell A. Harley and Anthony A. GalChapterl4 The Lung: Tuberculosis: "The Scourge of Creative Genius" ~Anthony A. Gal and Russell A. HarleyChapter 15 The Lung:Cancer, Mesothelioma and Other NeoplasmsAnthony A. Gal and Russell A. Harley.Chapter 16 The Lymphoid System and BloodClive R. Taylor and Stephen A. GellerChapter 17 The Head and NeckPieter J. SlootwegChapter 18 The LiverStephen A. GeUerChapter 19 The Gastrointestinal Tract and Exocrine PancreasRoland Sedivy and Jan G. van den TweelChapter 20 The KidneyJan J. Weening and J. Charles JennetteChapter 21 The Female Reproductive SystemRobert H. YoungChapter 22 The Male Reproductive SystemRaffaella Santi, Andrea A. Conti and GabrieIIa NesiChapter 23 The BreastJan G. van den Tweel and Paul J. van DiestChapter 24 The Skin: From Prehistory to the Emergence of DermatopathologyEmma J. M. Taylor and Clive R. TaylorChapter 25 The Nervous SystemJan van Gijn and Frans G.I. JennekensChapter 26 The Endocrine SystemJan G. van den Tweel and Roland SedivyChapter 27 Disorders of Growth: CancerClive R. Taylor PART IV LESSONS THAT CHANGED THE WAY IN WHICH WE SEE DISEASEChapter 28 Congenital Malformations: What We Thought and What We LearnedJ. Bruce BeckwithChapter 29 Human Paleopathology: What Skeletons Tell UsDonald J. OrtnerChapter 30 The First Pathology Classrooms: Anatomy and Pathology Museums of the World"Robin A. Cooke PART V THE TECHNICAL DRIVERS OF CHANGE IN PATHOLOGYChapter 31 The Age of the Microscope and "the Invention of the Pathologist" ~M. Lamar Jones and Anthony A. GalChapter 32 The Dawn of the Age of the Molecule: Immunologic, Genetic and Molecular Methods596Clive R. Taylor and Jan G. van den Tweel Index