Problems and Methods in the History of Medicine

List of contents

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The French Connection 1. The Annales and Medical Historiography: Bilan et Perspectives 2. Twenty Years On: Problems of Historical Methodology in the History of Health 3. Montpelier Medical Students and the Medicalisation of 18th-Century France 4. Popular Culture and Knowledge of the Body: Infancy and the Medical Anthropologist Part II: Medical History and Historical Demography 5. Methodological Problems in Modern Urban History Writing: Graphic Representations of Urban Mortality 1750-1850 6. No Death Without Birth: The Implications of English Mortality in the Early Modern Period Part III: Computers and the History of Institutions 7. Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives on the Asylum 8. Hospital History: New Sources and Methods Part IV: The Qualitative and Quantitative 9. Madness, Suicide, and the Computer 10. Interfaces: Perspectives of Health and Illness in Early Modern England Index

About the author

Porter, Roy; Wear, Andrew

Summary

Originally published in 1987, Problems and Methods in the History of Medicine is a collection of papers surveying and assessing the particular approaches and techniques which have been used in the history of medicine in the past or are still being developed.

Product details

• Authors: Roy (Deceased Porter, Roy Wear Porter, Andrew Wear
• Assisted by: Roy Porter (Editor), Porter Roy (Editor), Andrew Wear (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780367002046
• ISBN: 978-0-367-00204-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: History of Medicine; Routledge Library Editions: History of Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); MEDICAL / General, HISTORY / General, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, Research methods: general, Research methods / methodology