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Technology and Culture, 1978
comprehensive idea of his methods and his clinical attitudes is presented by dealing at length with the regimen of health prescribed for John Hamilton, archbishop of St. Andrews. In spite of its brief compass, this book is a mine of instruction and is to
Frederick F. Cartwright +1 more
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comprehensive idea of his methods and his clinical attitudes is presented by dealing at length with the regimen of health prescribed for John Hamilton, archbishop of St. Andrews. In spite of its brief compass, this book is a mine of instruction and is to
Frederick F. Cartwright +1 more
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Social History of Medicine and Disability History
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2018Abstract Disability history and social history of medicine are two subfields that share many common topics and sources but that approach them very differently. For medical historians, disability takes center stage as a problem that requires fixing, and the “victims” are primarily patients.
C. Kudlick
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The Social History of Medicine: Beyond the Local
Social History of Medicine, 2007Editors of Social History of Medicine (SHM) have been very successful in extending the geographic range covered by the journal. The impressive geographic diversity of studies published in SHM has not, however, led to a parallel presence of comparative historical investigations.
I. Löwy
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History, Policy and the Social History of Medicine
Social History of Medicine, 2009The History and Policy network at www.historyandpolicy.org is an initiative designed to make relevant aspects of historians' research accessible to those involved in deliberating over public policy. Originally founded as a website in 2002, it is now a growing network of professional historians who are assisted by a full-time external relations office ...
S. Szreter
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The Mission of Social History of Medicine: An Historical View
Social History of Medicine, 1995This paper analyses the shift in the Society for the Social History of Medicine from public health professionals to full-blooded approaches drawn from social history. The Bulletin of the Society reflected its vigorous interdisciplinary meetings programme: during the 1980s this matured into a fully fledged Journal and a monographs series as the Society ...
D. Porter
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The social history of medicine and Israeli history: A potential dialogue
Journal of Israeli History, 2011Ruah ra'ah: Magefot ha-kholerah ve-hipathut ha-refu'ah be-Eretz-Yisrael be-shalhei ha-tkufah ha-otmanit (An ill wind: Cholera epidemics and medical development in Palestine in the late Ottoman peri...
Rakefet Zalashik, Nadav Davidovitch
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Has the social history of medicine come of age?
The Historical Journal, 1993Medical education in the age of improvement. Edinburgh students and apprentices 1760-1826. By Lisa Rosner. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991. Pp. viii + 273. £30.00.
L. Jordanova
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Identifying Themes in the Social History of Medicine
The Journal of Modern History, 1991For several decades now historians have faced a proliferation of subspecialties that confront them with esoteric concepts and unfamiliar names. The six works under review here present to the nonspecialist reader something of the puzzling diversity and richness of the burgeoning field of medical history.
R. McGowen
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Medicine and Modernization: The Social History of German Health and Medicine
History of Science, 1986German medicine has been the object of much national pride and popular concern. German medical sciences reigned supreme in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with many brilliant discoveries which have laid the foundations of modem ...
P. Weindling
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Healing and Curing: Issues in the Social History and Anthropology of Medicine in Africa
Social History of Medicine, 1994Metaphors of disease, illness and healing, though they operate in different ways in different cultures and historical periods, appear to have a remarkably common currency. This fact presents both problems and opportunities for the medical anthropologist and historian, and raises important issues of interpretation for both disciplines.
M. Vaughan
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