Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Healers in the medical market place towards a social history of Graeco-Roman medicine
- Medicine and society in medieval Europe, 500-1500
- The patient in England, c. 1660–c. 1800
- Making sense of health and the environment in early modern England
- Medicine in the age of Enlightenment
- The rise of the modern hospital in Britain
- Medical practitioners 1750–1850 and the period of medical reform in Britain
- Public health, preventive medicine and professionalization: England and America in the nineteenth century
- Madness and its institutions
- From infectious to chronic diseases: changing patterns of sickness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Providers, ‘consumers’, the state and the delivery of health-care services in twentieth-century Britain
- The implications of increased life expectancy for family and social life
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Healers in the medical market place towards a social history of Graeco-Roman medicine
- Medicine and society in medieval Europe, 500-1500
- The patient in England, c. 1660–c. 1800
- Making sense of health and the environment in early modern England
- Medicine in the age of Enlightenment
- The rise of the modern hospital in Britain
- Medical practitioners 1750–1850 and the period of medical reform in Britain
- Public health, preventive medicine and professionalization: England and America in the nineteenth century
- Madness and its institutions
- From infectious to chronic diseases: changing patterns of sickness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Providers, ‘consumers’, the state and the delivery of health-care services in twentieth-century Britain
- The implications of increased life expectancy for family and social life
- Index
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- Medicine in SocietyHistorical Essays, pp. 377 - 397Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992