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The Therapeutic Revolution: Essays in the Social History of American Medicine

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1980
For many reasons, the progress of medicine has been—and probably will continue to be—recorded in strong differences of opinion. In pondering today's medical controversies, it may be helpful to reflect on some of those of the past and the personalities, beliefs, and historical periods that played a part.
P. Gunby
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Social History of Medicine in Spain. Points of Departure and Directions for Research

Social History of Medicine, 2000
The development and extension of activities in the domain of die social history of medicine in Spain since the 1960s is reviewed. Attention is paid, first, to the institutional setting and theoretical background of this broad line of research, taking the perspective of the professionalization of the subject of the 'history of medicine' as an under ...
E. R. Ocaña
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The Social History of Medicine and Disease in America: Problems and Possibilities

Journal of Social History, 1977
G. Grob
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Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: A Social History

, 2015
While reshaping our understanding of the history and development of traditional Vietnamese medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, Michele Thompson's new book reaches across disciplines to open important perspectives in Vietnamese colonial and social ...
Michele Thompson, Ayo Wahlberg
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Social Emergency Medicine: History and Principles

2021
Social emergency medicine, the expansion of the structure and practice of emergency care to incorporate the social context of patients and their communities, has a rich and varied history, despite its youth as a unified, named concept. This chapter presents a brief introduction to the three strands of history that have created the fabric of social ...
Nancy E. Wang, Jahan Fahimi, Harrison J. Alter   +2 more
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An Introduction to the Social History of Medicine

, 2011
A one-volume, detailed survey of the major debates and themes in the history of western medicine, from the early modern period to the present. Combining specialised knowledge with new ways of thinking about the subject, this lucidly written, illustrated ...
K. Waddington
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The social and cultural histories of medicine

2021
This chapter examines the historical context for the study of health and illness from a global perspective. It focuses on the social and cultural histories of medicine from the early modern period to the present. Specific themes covered in this chapter are world history and disease; medical education; and social medicine and the role of the physician ...
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The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India

, 2011
1. Ranald Martin's Medical Topography [1837]: The Emergence of Public Health in Calcutta Partho Datta 2. The Haj Pilgrimage and Issues of Health Saurabh Mishra 3.
B. Pati, M. Harrison
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Medieval Medicus: A Social History of Anglo-Norman Medicine

Technology and Culture, 1982
Vern L. Bullough, Edward J. Kealey
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After Death/After-'Life': The Social History of Medicine in Post-Postmodernity

, 2007
Summary. Well supported and institutionalised, the social history of medicine thrives. Its research agenda is infinitely expandable, and its humanist sentiments continue to touch emotional cords. Politically and intellectually, however, it is sterile. In
R. Cooter
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