An Introduction to the Social History of Medicine

Europe Since 1500

Keir Waddington (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

408 Seiten

2011
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4039-4693-5 (ISBN)

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

KEIR WADDINGTON is Reader in the Social History of Medicine and Head of History at Cardiff University, UK. He has written a number of books on the history of hospitals, asylums, medical education and public health. He is closely involved with the Society for the Social History of Medicine.

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.

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	636 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-4039-4693-0 / 1403946930
ISBN-13	978-1-4039-4693-5 / 9781403946935
Zustand	Neuware