I'm tasked with designing a survey course on the history of science up to the 18th century, and I'm pretty dissatisfied the standard Eurocentric narrative: Greeks-Alexandrians-Copernicus-Kepler-Galileo-Newton-etc.
But it's a 2nd year undergraduate class, so I don't think they're ready for a bunch of serious scholarly articles. Is there any good synthetic text that encompasses a slightly wider view? Like at least including China, India and the Islamic world?
I'm not really going to be able to help unless you're specifically interested in the history of medicine, but I wanted to make sure you've checked out the History of Science section on the wiki's book list. It leans a bit Western, but it is a place to start.
I'm willing to accept the answer that doing a 'history of science' survey course is just plain irresponsible, but I'm obliged to teach it anyway, so any help in mitigating the irresponsibility would be appreciated.