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Medicine in society : historical essays
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- Creator
- edited by Andrew Wear
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992
- Physical Details
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- ix, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521333511, 0521333512, 9780521336390, 0521336392
- OCLC
- ocm23287687
- Healers in the medical market place : towards a social history of Graeco-Roman medicine / Vivian Nutton -- Medicine and society in medieval Europe, 500-1500 / Katharine Park -- The patient in England, c. 1660-c. 1800 / Roy Porter -- Making sense of health and the environment in early modern England / Andrew Wear -- Medicine in the age of Enlightenment / Guenter B. Risse -- The rise of the modern hospital in Britain / Lindsay Granshaw -- Medical practitioners 1750-1850 and the period of medical reform in Britain / Irvine Loudon -- Public health, preventive medicine and professionalization : England and America in the nineteenth century / Elizabeth Fee, Dorothy Porter -- Madness and its institutions / Roy Porter -- From infectious to chronic diseases : changing patterns of sickness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Paul Weindling -- Providers, c̀€onsumers', the state and the delivery of health-care services in twentieth-century Britain / Jane Lewis -- The implications of increased life expectancy for family and social life / Arthur E. Imhof
Subjects
- Medicine -- History.
- Social medicine -- History.
- History of Medicine.
Medical Subject Heading
- Social Conditions -- history.
Medical Subject Heading