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Informationen zum Autor Deborah Brunton is Lecturer in the History of Medicine at The Open University Klappentext During the nineteenth century medicine underwent a radical transformation. In 1800, the body was still understood in terms of humors and fluids, and a wide range of individuals provided medical care. Institutions were marginal to the medical enterprise, and governments took almost no part in providing medical services. By 1930 a recognisably modern medicine had begun to emerge across Europe. New understandings of the body opened up surgery and treatments, and hospitals became centres for care, research and training. In Medicine transformed, original essays by established scholars in the social history of medicine explore these developments and examine topics such as the military and colonial medicine, the role of women and access to care. The essays provide an accessible introduction to the subject, setting nineteenth and early twentieth-century medicine in its political, cultural, intellectual and economic contexts. Medicine transformed is complemented by a companion volume of primary and secondary readings: Health, disease and society in Europe, 1800-1930: A source book. Zusammenfassung An accessible introduction to the social history of medicine in Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth century! set within its political! cultural! intellectual and economic contexts -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrationsList of contributorsIntroduction - Deborah Brunton1. The localisation of disease - Laurence Brockliss2. The changing shape of the hospital - Hilary Marland3. Medical reform and medical practice - Deborah Brunton4. Gender and medicine: midwives, nurses and women doctors - Maxine Rhodes5. The development of surgery - Thomas Schlich6. Public health: dealing with disease in populations - Deborah Brunton7. Colonial and imperial medicine - Michael Worboys8. Asylums, psychiatry and mental disorder c.1815-1914 - Jonathan Andrews9. Motherhood and the state - Maxine Rhodes10. The fortunes of eugenics - James Moore11. The patient's perspective: access to care - Deborah Brunton12. Medicine in war - Roger Cooter13. The laboratory revolution - Harmke KammingaIndex...
