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 text explores traditional views and questions existing orthodoxies.
List of Illustrations.- List of Tables.- Acknowledgements.- Abbreviations.- Preface.- Understanding the History of Medicine:: Historiography.- Disease, Illness and Society.- Medicine and Religion.- Women, Health and Medicine.- Medical Self-Help and the Market for Medicine.- Anatomy and Medicine.- Surgery.- Hospitals.- Practitioners and Professionalization.- Science and the Practice of Medicine.- Nursing.- Public Health.- Healthcare and the State.- Medicine and Empire.- Medicine and Warfare.- The Rise of the Asylum.- Afterword.- Index.
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