I'm currently listening to a History of Medicine series which begins at Hippocrates and moves then on to Galen. In a throwaway line, the author mentions that the Egyptians had been trephinating people for thousands of years prior.
That got me to thinking that I'm definitely going to miss out on a lot of the history of medicine if the timeline goes Hippocrates-Galen-Science!
Does anyone have any suggestions for the history of medicine outside of the two heavyweights?
You're in luck! This book was just released as free access on the history of Chinese medicine https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9780203740262/routledge-handbook-chinese-medicine-vivienne-lo-michael-stanley-baker-dolly-yang
The first 2 sections are probably the most interesting, especially articles by Huang Longxiang and Li Jianmin who are very big scholars in China and Taiwan respectively.