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Uncommon card · History
History of medicine, an Uncommon card
The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 95
- DEF
- 93
- Power
- 188
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 88,000
Ranked #210 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The history of medicine is the study and documentation of the evolution of medical treatments, practices, and knowledge over time.
- Medical historians often draw from other humanities fields of study including economics, health sciences, sociology, and politics to better understand the institutions, practices, people, professions, and social systems that have shaped medicine.
- When a period which predates or lacks written sources regarding medicine, information is instead drawn from archaeological sources.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The History of medicine article was read about 88,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 95 and blocks with 93: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get History of medicine
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, History of medicine (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : manuscript:Unknown author Unknown author scan used in book: Foto de la Biblioteca Vaticana, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
