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Medicine in Society
Historical Essays

Editor: Andrew Wear, University College London and Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine

Andrew Wear, Vivian Nutton, Katharine Park, Roy Porter, Guenter B. Granshaw, Lindsay Granshaw, Irvine Loudon, Elizabeth Fee, Dorothy Porter, Paul Weindling, Jane Lewis, Arthur E. Imhof

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Date Published: April 2011
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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 professionalized medicine of State influence, of hospitals, public health medicine, and scientific medicine. The book also covers innovative topics such as patient-doctor relationships, the history of the asylum, and the demographic background to the history of medicine.
- Combines the findings of some of the leading researchers into the social history of medicine to provide a state-of-the-art study of the subject, redrawing the boundaries of modern study
- Completely comprehensive, examining medical practice from ancient Greece to the modern day
- A fascinating study of how modern medicine, as we know it, developed
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"This book makes the recent work of medical historians available to a wider audience of nonspecialists who are interested in the historical roots of modern health care. The essays are comprehensive in their sweep, are informed in their assessments, and take full account of modern currents of scholarship. The work thus deserves a wide readership among health care professionals, who--if they do not know where current medical trends will lead them--will at least learn where they began and how they have developed." Gary B. Ferngren, New England Journal of Medicine
"Medicine in Society is an important book that will help teachers and students of society and culture better understand the development of what has become a contemporary preoccupation." Fred R. van Hartesveldt, Teaching History
"...includes essays that cover the social history of medicine from antiquity to the present in Western Europe...generally first-rate introductions to their subject matter and so are useful for students and scholars alike...many of the most important themes discussed in the Anglo-American world medical history are treated in a clear, lively, and inclusive manner. Harold J. Cook, ISIS
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- Date Published: April 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511872334
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Andrew Wear
2. Healers in the medical market place: towards a social history of Graeco-Roman medicine Vivian Nutton
3. Medicine and society in medieval Europe, 500–1500 Katharine Park
4. The patient in England, c. 1660–c. 1800 Roy Porter
5. Making sense of health and the environment in early modern England Andrew Wear
6. Medicine in the age of Enlightenment Guenter B. Granshaw
7. The rise of the modern hospital in Britain Lindsay Granshaw
8. Medical practitioners 1750–1850 and the period of medical reform in Britain Irvine Loudon
9. Public health, preventive medicine and professionalization: England and America in the nineteenth century Elizabeth Fee and Dorothy Porter
10. Madness and its institutions Roy Porter
11. From infectious to chronic diseases: changing patterns of sickness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Paul Weindling
12. Providers, 'consumers', the state and the delivery of health care services in twentieth-century Britain Jane Lewis
13. The implications of increased life expectancy for family and social life Arthur E. Imhof
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Andrew Wear, University College London and Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
Contributors
Andrew Wear, Vivian Nutton, Katharine Park, Roy Porter, Guenter B. Granshaw, Lindsay Granshaw, Irvine Loudon, Elizabeth Fee, Dorothy Porter, Paul Weindling, Jane Lewis, Arthur E. Imhof