Disease Medicine And Society In England 1550 1860

Author : Roy Porter,Economic History Society
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521557917

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Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550-1860 by Roy Porter,Economic History Society Pdf

In his short but authoritative study, Roy Porter examines the impact of disease upon the English and their responses to it before the widespread availability and public provision of medical care. Professor Porter incorporates into the revised second edition new perspectives offered by recent research into provincial medical history, the history of childbirth, and women's studies in the social history of medicine. He begins by sketching a picture of the threats posed by disease to population levels and social continuity from Tudor times to the Industrial Revolution, going on to consider the nature and development of the medical profession, attitudes to doctors and disease, and the growing commitment of the state to public health. Drawing together a wide range of often fragmentary material, and providing a detailed annotated bibliography, this book is an important guide to the history of medicine and to English social history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1000572931

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Disease, Medicine and Society in England 1550-1860 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Roy Porter,Economic History Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:638131558

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Disease, Medicine, and Society in England, 1550-1860 by Roy Porter,Economic History Society Pdf

Author : Peter Elmer,Ole Peter Grell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0719067375

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Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-1800 by Peter Elmer,Ole Peter Grell Pdf

The period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment constitutes a vital phase in the history of European medicine. Elements of continuity with the classical and medieval past are evident in the ongoing importance of a humor-based view of medicine and the treatment of illness. At the same time, new theories of the body emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to challenge established ideas in medical circles. In recent years, scholars have explored this terrain with increasingly fascinating results, often revising our previous understanding of the ways in which early modern Europeans discussed the body, health and disease. In order to understand these and related processes, historians are increasingly aware of the way in which every aspect of medical care and provision in early modern Europe was shaped by the social, religious, political and cultural concerns of the age.

Author : Mary Wilson Carpenter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313065422

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Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England by Mary Wilson Carpenter Pdf

This work offers a social and cultural history of Victorian medicine "from below," as experienced by ordinary practitioners and patients, often described in their own words. Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England is a human story of medicine in 19th-century England. It's a story of how a diverse and competitive assortment of apothecary apprentices, surgeons who learned their trade by doing, and physicians schooled in ancient Greek medicine but lacking in any actual experience with patients, was gradually formed into a medical profession with uniform standards of education and qualification. It's a story of how medical men struggled with "new" diseases such as cholera and "old" ones known for centuries, such as tuberculosis, syphilis, and smallpox, largely in the absence of effective drugs or treatments, and so were often reduced to standing helplessly by as their patients died. It's a story of how surgeons, empowered first by anesthesia and later by antiseptic technique, vastly expanded the field of surgery—sometimes with major benefits for patients, but sometimes with disastrous results. Above all, it's a story of how gender and class ideology dominated both practitioners and patients. Women were stridently excluded from medical education and practice of any kind until the end of the century, but were hailed into the new field of nursing, which was felt to be "natural" to the gentler sex. Only the poor were admitted to hospitals until the last decades of the century, and while they often received compassionate care, they were also treated as "cases" of disease and experimented upon with freedom. Yet because medical knowledge was growing by leaps and bounds, Victorians were fascinated with this new field and wrote novels, poetry, essays, letters, and diaries, which illuminate their experience of health and disease for us. Newly developed techniques of photography, as well as improved print illustrations, help us to picture this fascinating world. This vivid history of Victorian medicine is enriched with many literary examples and visual images drawn from the period.

Author : Richard Harrison Shryock
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0801490936

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Medicine and Society in America, 1660-1860 by Richard Harrison Shryock Pdf

First published in 1960, Richard Harrison Shryock's Medicine and Society in America: 1660-1860 remains a sweeping and informative introduction to the practice of medicine, the education of physicians, the understanding of health and disease, and the professionalization of medicine in the Colonial Era and the period of the Early Republic. Shryock details such developments as the founding of the first medical school in America (at the College of Philadelphia in 1765); the introduction of inoculation against smallpox in Boston in 1721; the creation of the Marine Hospital Service in 1799, under which all merchant marines were required to take out health insurance; and the state of medical knowledge on the eve of the Civil War.

Author : Joan Lane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135119270

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A Social History of Medicine by Joan Lane Pdf

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 : Robert A. Aronowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521558255

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Making Sense of Illness by Robert A. Aronowitz Pdf

This 1998 book contains historical essays about how diseases change their meaning.

Author : Suman Seth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1108407005

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Difference and Disease by Suman Seth Pdf

Before the nineteenth century, travellers who left Britain for the Americas, West Africa, India and elsewhere encountered a medical conundrum: why did they fall ill when they arrived, and why - if they recovered - did they never become so ill again? The widely accepted answer was that the newcomers needed to become 'seasoned to the climate'. Suman Seth explores forms of eighteenth-century medical knowledge, including conceptions of seasoning, showing how geographical location was essential to this knowledge and helped to define relationships between Britain and her far-flung colonies. In this period, debates raged between medical practitioners over whether diseases changed in different climes. Different diseases were deemed characteristic of different races and genders, and medical practitioners were thus deeply involved in contestations over race and the legitimacy of the abolitionist cause. In this innovative and engaging history, Seth offers dramatically new ways to understand the mutual shaping of medicine, race, and empire.

Author : Mark Harrison
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745638010

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Disease and the Modern World: 1500 to the Present Day by Mark Harrison Pdf

‘Mark Harrison's book illuminates the threats posed by infectious diseases since 1500. He places these diseases within an international perspective, and demonstrates the relationship between European expansion and changing epidemiological patterns. The book is a significant introduction to a fascinating subject.’ Gerald N. Grob, Rutgers State University In this lively and accessible book, Mark Harrison charts the history of disease from the birth of the modern world around 1500 through to the present day. He explores how the rise of modern nation-states was closely linked to the threat posed by disease, and particularly infectious, epidemic diseases. He examines the ways in which disease and its treatment and prevention, changed over the centuries, under the impact of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and with the advent of scientific medicine. For the first time, the author integrates the history of disease in the West with a broader analysis of the rise of the modern world, as it was transformed by commerce, slavery, and colonial rule. Disease played a vital role in this process, easing European domination in some areas, limiting it in others. Harrison goes on to show how a new environment was produced in which poverty and education rather than geography became the main factors in the distribution of disease. Assuming no prior knowledge of the history of disease, Disease and the Modern World provides an invaluable introduction to one of the richest and most important areas of history. It will be essential reading for all undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in the history of disease and medicine, and for anyone interested in how disease has shaped, and has been shaped by, the modern world.

Author : Linda Evi Merians
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0813108888

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The Secret Malady by Linda Evi Merians Pdf

Venereal disease existed in epidemical proportions in 18th-century France and Britain. Initially regarded as the subject for jokes and boasts of Restoration promiscuity, its prevalence as the century wore on forced people to take it seriously. Linda Merians offers a detailed study of the disease.

Author : F. M. L. Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0521438144

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The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950 by F. M. L. Thompson Pdf

Whilst in certain quarters it may be fashionable to suppose that there is no such thing as society historians, they have had no difficulty in finding their subject. The difficulty, rather, is that an outpouring of research and writing is hard for anyone but the specialist to keep up with the literature or grasp the overall picture. In these three volumes, as is the tradition in Cambridge Histories, a team of specialists has assembled the jigsaw of topical monographic research and presented an interpretation of the development of modern British society since 1750, from three perspectives: those of regional communities, the working and living environment, and social institutions. Each volume is self-contained, and each contribution, thematically defined, contains its own chronology of the period under review. Taken as a whole they offer an authoritative and comprehensive view of the manner and method of the shaping of society in the two centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic change.

Author : Dana Arnold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134343591

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The Spaces of the Hospital by Dana Arnold Pdf

The Spaces of the Hospital examines how hospitals operated as a complex category of social, urban and architectural space in London from 1680 to 1820. This period witnessed the transformation of the city into a modern metropolis. The hospital was very much part of this process and its spaces, both interior and exterior, help us to understand these changes in terms of spatiality and spatial practices. Exploring the hospital through a series of thematic case studies, Dana Arnold presents a theoretically refined reading of how these institutions both functioned as internal discrete locations and interacted with the metropolis. Examples range from the grand royal military hospital, those concerned with the destitute and the insane and the new cultural phenomenon of the voluntary hospital. This engaging book makes an important contribution to our understanding of urban space and of London, uniquely examining how different theoretical paradigms reveal parallel readings of these remarkable hospital buildings.

Author : Elizabeth Lane Furdell
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1580461190

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Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England by Elizabeth Lane Furdell Pdf

An investigation of the role which the English book trade played in an important transitional period in early modern medicine.

Author : Erica Charters
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226180144

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Disease, War, and the Imperial State by Erica Charters Pdf

The Seven Years’ War, often called the first global war, spanned North America, the West Indies, Europe, and India. In these locations diseases such as scurvy, smallpox, and yellow fever killed far more than combat did, stretching the resources of European states. In Disease, War, and the Imperial State, Erica Charters demonstrates how disease played a vital role in shaping strategy and campaigning, British state policy, and imperial relations during the Seven Years’ War. Military medicine was a crucial component of the British war effort; it was central to both eighteenth-century scientific innovation and the moral authority of the British state. Looking beyond the traditional focus of the British state as a fiscal war-making machine, Charters uncovers an imperial state conspicuously attending to the welfare of its armed forces, investing in medical research, and responding to local public opinion. Charters shows military medicine to be a credible scientific endeavor that was similarly responsive to local conditions and demands. Disease, War, and the Imperial State is an engaging study of early modern warfare and statecraft, one focused on the endless and laborious task of managing manpower in the face of virulent disease in the field, political opposition at home, and the clamor of public opinion in both Britain and its colonies.