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Little attention has been paid to the history of the influence of the social sciences upon medical thinking and practice in the twentieth century. The essays in this volume explore the consequences of the interaction between medicine and social science by evaluating its significance for the moral and aterial role of medicine in modern societies.

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Little attention has been paid to the history of the influence of the social sciences upon medical thinking and practice in the twentieth century. The essays in this volume explore the consequences of the interaction between medicine and social science by evaluating its significance for the moral and aterial role of medicine in modern societies.
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Autorenporträt
Dorothy Porter is a Wellcome Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Birkbeck College in the University of London. She has written In Sickness and In Health: the British Experience 1650-1850 (London, Fourth Estate books, 1988; New York, basil Blackwell, 1989) and Patient's Progress. The Dialectics of Doctoring in 18th century England (Cambridge, Polity Press, 1989; Palo Alto. Stanford University Press, 1990) both with Roy Porter. She has recently edited a collection of essays on The History of health and the Modern State (Amsterdam and Atlanta, Rodopi, 1994) and is currently completing a book on Health Civilisation and the State. A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times (London, Routledge) and researching a study of The Pursuit of Social Pathology: Medicine and Social Science in Britain in the Twentieth Century.