Keir Waddington

An Introduction to the Social History of Medicine

Europe Since 1500

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC / Macmillan Education
• 2011 edition
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9781403946935
• ISBN-10: 1403946930
• Artikelnr.: 33636040

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.