A Social History Of Medicine

Author : Joan Lane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135119201

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A Social History of Medicine traces the development of medical practice from the Industrial Revolution right through to the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of source material, it charts the changing relationship between patients and practitioners over this period, exploring the impact made by institutional care, government intervention and scientific discovery. The study illuminates the extent to which medical assistance really was available to patients over the period, by focusing on provincial areas and using local sources. It introduces a variety of contemporary medical practitioners, some of them hitherto unknown and with fascinating intricate details of their work. The text offers an extensive thematic survey, including coverage of: * institutions such as hospitals, dispensaries, asylums and prisons * midwifery and nursing * infections and how changes in science have affected disease control * contraception, war, and the NHS.

Author : George Ikkos,Nick Bouras
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781911623717

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Mind, State and Society by George Ikkos,Nick Bouras Pdf

A multidisciplinary account of the reforms in psychiatry and mental health in Britain during 1960-2010 and their relation to society.

Author : Helen King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350005907

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Hippocrates Now by Helen King Pdf

This book is available as open access through the Knowledge Unlatched programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. We need to talk about Hippocrates. Current scholarship attributes none of the works of the 'Hippocratic corpus' to him, and the ancient biographical traditions of his life are not only late, but also written for their own promotional purposes. Yet Hippocrates features powerfully in our assumptions about ancient medicine, and our beliefs about what medicine – and the physician himself – should be. In both orthodox and alternative medicine, he continues to be a model to be emulated. This book will challenge widespread assumptions about Hippocrates (and, in the process, about the history of medicine in ancient Greece and beyond) and will also explore the creation of modern myths about the ancient world. Why do we continue to use Hippocrates, and how are new myths constructed around his name? How do news stories and the internet contribute to our picture of him? And what can this tell us about wider popular engagements with the classical world today, in memes, 'quotes' and online?

Author : Hyung Wook Park
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822981367

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Old Age, New Science by Hyung Wook Park Pdf

Between 1870 and 1940, life expectancy in the United States skyrocketed while the percentage of senior citizens age sixty-five and older more than doubled—a phenomenon owed largely to innovations in medicine and public health. At the same time, the Great Depression was a major tipping point for age discrimination and poverty in the West: seniors were living longer and retiring earlier, but without adequate means to support themselves and their families. The economic disaster of the 1930s alerted scientists, who were actively researching the processes of aging, to the profound social implications of their work—and by the end of the 1950s, the field of gerontology emerged. Old Age, New Science explores how a group of American and British life scientists contributed to gerontology’s development as a multidisciplinary field. It examines the foundational “biosocial visions” they shared, a byproduct of both their research and the social problems they encountered. Hyung Wook Park shows how these visions shaped popular discourses on aging, directly influenced the institutionalization of gerontology, and also reflected the class, gender, and race biases of their founders.

Author : Mark Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199546497

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine by Mark Jackson Pdf

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

Author : Jacalyn Duffin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Medicine
ISBN : 9781487509170

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History of Medicine, Third Edition by Jacalyn Duffin Pdf

The third edition of this bestselling introduction to medical history has been thoroughly updated to include recent scholarship and new events in major fields of medical endeavor.

Author : Rima D. Apple
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1987-12-16
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780299114831

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Mothers and Medicine by Rima D. Apple Pdf

In the nineteenth century, infants were commonly breast-fed; by the middle of the twentieth century, women typically bottle-fed their babies on the advice of their doctors. In this book, Rima D. Apple discloses and analyzes the complex interactions of science, medicine, economics, and culture that underlie this dramatic shift in infant-care practices and women’s lives. As infant feeding became the keystone of the emerging specialty of pediatrics in the twentieth century, the manufacture of infant food became a lucrative industry. More and more mothers reported difficulty in nursing their babies. While physicians were establishing themselves and the scientific experts and the infant-food industry was hawking the scientific bases of their products, women embraced “scientific motherhood,” believing that science could shape child care practices. The commercialization and medicalization of infant care established an environment that made bottle feeding not only less feared by many mothers, but indeed “natural” and “necessary.” Focusing on the history of infant feeding, this book clarifies the major elements involved in the complex and sometimes contradictory interaction between women and the medical profession, revealing much about the changing roles of mothers and physicians in American society. “The strength of Apple’s book is her ability to indicate how the mutual interests of mothers, doctors, and manufacturers led to the transformation of infant feeding. . . . Historians of science will be impressed with the way she probes the connections between the medical profession and the manufacturers and with her ability to demonstrate how medical theories were translated into medical practice.”—Janet Golden, Isis

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medicine, Oriental
ISBN : UCBK:C094356450

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Vietnamese Traditional Medicine by Anonim Pdf

Author : R. Bivins,J. Pickstone
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780230235359

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Medicine, Madness and Social History by R. Bivins,J. Pickstone Pdf

Written in honour of eminent historian Roy Porter by twenty of his colleagues and students, the collection renders cutting edge scholarship accessible. Historians from the three fields that Porter made his own - the histories of medicine, madness, and the Enlightenment - illustrate his influence while tackling major themes ranging from disability rights to the popularization of science. In their accounts, artisan gardeners jostle with anarchists, dentists, and hypnotists in a lively, and very Porterian, parade.

Author : Robert Dingwall,Anne Marie Rafferty,Charles Webster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134978700

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An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing by Robert Dingwall,Anne Marie Rafferty,Charles Webster Pdf

In recent years the study of nursing history in Britain has been transformed by the application of concepts and methods from the social sciences to original sources. The myths and legends which have grown up through a century of anecdotal writing have been chipped away to reveal the complex story of an occupation shaped and reshaped by social and technological change. Most of the work has been scattered in monographs, journals and edited collections. The skills of a social historian, a sociologist and a graduate nurse have been brought together to rethink the history of modern nursing in the light of the latest scholarship. The account starts by looking at the type of nursing care available in 1800. This was usually provided by the sick person's family or household servants. It traces the interdependent growth of general nursing and the modern hospital and examines the separate origins and eventual integration of mental nursing, district nursing, health visiting and midwifery. It concludes with reflections on the prospects for nursing in the year 2000.

Author : David Wright,The Hospital for Sick Kids
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781442667570

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SickKids by David Wright,The Hospital for Sick Kids Pdf

Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children is the most famous medical institution in Canada. In addition to being the largest pediatric centre in North America, it has earned an international reputation for clinical care and research that has influenced generations of health care practitioners across the country and around the world. In a very real sense, hospital staff have touched the lives of tens of thousands of children and their families. SickKids has an equally remarkable history - from its humble origins in rented houses in Victorian Toronto, the Hospital would flourish to become an influential paediatric institution, pioneering Pasteurization, the Iron Lung for Polio, Pablum, the Mustard Procedure for 'Blue Babies', and the discovery of the gene for Cystic Fibrosis. It would also be the site of two of most famous medical controversies in modern Canadian history -- the suspected murder of two dozen babies in the early 1980s and, more recently, the whistle-blowing controversy involving the research scientist, Nancy Olivieri. David Wright’s History of The Hospital for Sick Children chronicles this remarkable history of the SickKids, including its triumphs and tragedies, its discoveries and dead-ends. In doing so, Wright has crafted a compelling and accessible history of SickKids that anchors Toronto's children's hospital within the broader changes affecting Canadian society and medical practice over the last century.

Author : Frank Huisman,John Harley Warner
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0801885485

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Locating Medical History by Frank Huisman,John Harley Warner Pdf

"With diverse constitutions, a multiplicity of approaches, styles, and aims is both expected and desired. This volume locates medical history within itself and within larger historiographic trends, providing a springboard for discussions about what the history of medicine should be, and what aims it should serve."--Jacket

Author : Frederick Fox Cartwright
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015001545733

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A Social History of Medicine by Frederick Fox Cartwright Pdf

Author : Anne Stobart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472580375

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Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England by Anne Stobart Pdf

How did 17th-century families in England perceive their health care needs? What household resources were available for medical self-help? To what extent did households make up remedies based on medicinal recipes? Drawing on previously unpublished household papers ranging from recipes to accounts and letters, this original account shows how health and illness were managed on a day-to-day basis in a variety of 17th-century households. It reveals the extent of self-help used by families, explores their favourite remedies and analyses differences in approaches to medical matters. Anne Stobart illuminates cultures of health care amongst women and men, showing how 'kitchin physick' related to the business of medicine, which became increasingly commercial and professional in the 18th century.

Author : Paul Starr
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1984-06-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0465079350

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The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr Pdf

Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries. "The definitive social history of the medical profession in America....A monumental achievement."—H. Jack Geiger, M.D., New York Times Book Review