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A Social History of Medicine

Name: A Social History of Medicine
ISBN: 9781135119201

Health, Healing and Disease in England, 1750-1950

Joan Lane,

256 pages
English
PDF
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - PDF

A Social History of Medicine

Health, Healing and Disease in England, 1750-1950

Joan Lane,

About this book

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.

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