Medicine in Wales c.1800-2000 - Public Service or Private Commodity?

Addressing the interface between medical history and the study of contemporary issues in medicine and health, this book pays particular attention to the conduct of clinical research, the relativity of medical knowledge, and the relationship between patients and practitioners. The contested boundaries between the public and the private are a defining feature of modernity and an important focus for postmodernist accounts of power and identity. The relationship between the state, scientific knowledge, and professional expertise is explored, and its implications for the producers and consumers of healthcare are discussed in terms of class and citizenship, family, gender and community, and the urban and rural contrasts within Welsh national identity.

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At a time when the proper role of the state is under constant review, its relationship to the private sphere is a matter of considerable public concern, this text places this debate in historical context.

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• Authors: Peter Borsay
• Assisted by: Anne Borsay (Editor), Peter Borsay (Editor), Borsay Peter (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.07.2003
• EAN: 9780708318249
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-1824-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: University of Wales Press - Po
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Wales, C, 2000, Service, History: specific events & topics, Medicine, Public, HISTORY / General, 20th Century, 1800, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Private, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Medicine, OR, Politics & government, Politics and government, History: specific events and topics, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Commodity?