An Introduction to the Social History of Medicine - Europe Since 1500

A one-volume,detailed survey ofthe major debates and themesin the history of western medicine, from the early modern period to the present.Combining specialised knowledgewith new ways of thinking about the subject, this lucidly written, illustrated text explores traditional views and questions existing orthodoxies.>

Table des matières

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Preface
Understanding the History of Medicine: Historiography
Disease, Illness and Society
Medicine and Religion
Women, Health and Medicine
Medical Self-Help and the Market for Medicine
Anatomy and Medicine
Surgery
Hospitals
 Practitioners and Professionalization
Science and the Practice of Medicine
Nursing
Public Health
Healthcare and the State
Medicine and Empire
Medicine and Warfare
The Rise of the Asylum
Afterword
Index.

A propos de l'auteur

KEIR WADDINGTON is Reader in the Social History of Medicine and Head of History at Cardiff University, UK.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Keir Waddington, Waddington Keir
• Edition: Macmillan
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 29.11.2011
• EAN: 9781403946928
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-4692-8
• Pages: 408
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Médecine > Général; B, Medicine, HISTORY / Social History, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, c 1500 onwards to present day, Social and cultural history, Medicine—History