Medicine in Society Historical Essays

Name: Medicine in Society Historical Essays
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ISBN: 9780521336390

ISBN-10: 0521336392

ISBN-13: 9780521336390

Edition: 1992

Authors: Andrew Wear

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The social history of medicine over the past fifteen years has redrawn the boundaries of medical history. Specialized papers and monographs have contributed to our knowledge of how medicine has affected society and how society has shaped medicine. This book synthesizes, through a series of essays, some of the most significant findings of this "new social history" of medicine. The period covered ranges from ancient Greece to the present time. While coverage is not exhaustive, the reader is able to trace how medicine in the West developed from an unlicensed open market place, with many different types of practitioners in the classical period, to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century…

Book details

List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/27/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English




Introduction




Healers in the medical market place: towards a social history of Graeco-Roman medicine




Medicine and society in medieval Europe, 500-1500




The patient in England, c. 1660-c. 1800




Making sense of health and the environment in early modern England




Medicine in the age of Enlightenment




The rise of the modern hospital in Britain




Medical practitioners 1750-1850 and the period of medical reform in Britain




Public health, preventive medicine and professionalization: England and America in the nineteenth century




Madness and its institutions




From infectious to chronic diseases: changing patterns of sickness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries




Providers, 'consumers', the state and the delivery of health care services in twentieth-century Britain




The implications of increased life expectancy for family and social life



Index