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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine

Beschreibung

In three sections, the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. It explores medical developments and trends in writing history according to period, place, and theme.

Autor

Mark Jackson was Director of the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter between 2000 and 2010. He served as Chair of the Wellcome Trust History of Medicine Funding Committee between 2003 and 2008 and is currently Chair of the Wellcome Trust Research Resources in Medical History Funding Committee. He has taught modules in the history of medicine and the history and philosophy of science for over twenty years. His books include Newborn Child Murder (1996), The Borderland of Imbecility (2000), Infanticide: Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment 1550-2000, (ed., 2002), Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady (2006), Health and the Modern Home (ed., 2007), and Asthma: The Biography (2009). The Age of Stress: Science and the Search for Stability is due to be published by Oxford University Press in 2013.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Handbooks
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 692
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 172mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1192g
• ISBN-13: 9780199668397
• ISBN-10: 0199668396
• Artikelnr.: 36455276