Write a 400- to 500-word essay in response to the following:
“The war between disease and doctors fought out on the battleground of the flesh has a beginning and a middle but no end. The history of medicine, in other words, is far from a simple tale of triumphant progress.” This quote from p. 1 of Blood and Guts encapsulates the main point of the first chapter. Provide and analyze an example from Chapter 1 of a success and an example of an ongoing problem in the history of disease that, together, illustrate how the history of disease can be seen from these two completely different viewpoints.
