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Geschiedenis van de geneeskunde
Dit boek geeft een overzicht van de opkomst van de geneeskunde in het Westen vanaf de klassieke Oudheid tot het heden. De auteurs behandelen zowel de sociale als de wetenschappelijke geschiedenis van de geneeskunde en schetsen de chronologie van de belangrijkste ontwikkelingen en gebeurtenissen. Terzelfder tijd wordt ingegaan op de vragen, ontdekkingen en controverses die de medische vooruitgang hebben omringd en gekenmerkt. Het is een verhaal dat een verband legt tussen ziekte, dokters, eerstelijnszorg, chirurgie, de opkomst van ziekenhuizen, behandeling met medicijnen en farmacologie, geestesziekte en psychiatrie. De lezer maakt kennis met de cruciale ontwikkelingen van de laatste 150 jaar, maar verneemt ook meer over de klassieke, middeleeuwse, islamitische en Oost-Aziatische geneeskunde. Het boek is zeer toegankelijk geschreven en uitermate geschikt voor iedereen die een levendige en informatieve inleiding wil tot de medische geschiedenis.
Problems and Methods in the History of Medicine
Originally published in 1987, Problems and Methods in the History of Medicine is a collection of papers surveying and assessing the particular approaches and techniques which have been used in the history of medicine in the past or are still being developed (from the influence of Annales to the role of the computer). The emphasis is on historical practice rather than methodology in isolation. Besides the topics indicated above, a third problematic is that of historical demography. A common theme to all three groups of paper is the relation between quantitative ‘hard’ data and qualitative ‘soft’ data.
The Popularization of Medicine, 1650-1850
The Popularization of Medicine explores the rise of this form of people's medicine, from the early days of printing to the Victorian age, focusing upon the different experiences of Britain and France, more marginal European nations like Spain and Hungary, and upon North America.
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Bodies Politic
In this historical tour de force, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in health, disease, and death in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Porter argues that great symbolic weight was attached to contrasting conceptions of the healthy and diseased body and that such ideas were mapped onto antithetical notions of the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly. With these images in mind, he explores aspects of being ill alongside the practice of medicine, paying special attention to self-presentations by physicians, surgeons, and quacks, and to changes in practitioners’ public identities over time. Porter also examines the wider symbolic meanings of disease and doctoring and the “body politic.” Porter’s book is packed with outrageous and amusing anecdotes portraying diseased bodies and medical practitioners alike.
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind
A panoramic, illustrated history explores the development of medicine against the backdrop of the religious, scientific, philosophical, and political beliefs of each age, and unearths a treasure trove of medicinal oddities.
The History of Medical Education in Britain
Professional education forms a key element in the transmission of medical learning and skills, in occupational solidarity and in creating and recreating the very image of the practitioner. Yet the history of British medical education has hitherto been surprisingly neglected. Building upon papers contributed to two conferences on the history of medical education in the early 1990s, this volume presents new research and original synthesis on key aspects of medical instruction, theoretical and practical, from early medieval times into the present century. Academic and practical aspects are equally examined, and balanced attention is given to different sites of instruction, be it the university or the hospital. The crucial role of education in medical qualifications and professional licensing is also examined as is the part it has played in the regulation of the entry of women to the profession.
Blood and Guts
Chronicles the history of medicine, including the role of doctors, various attempts at controlling disease, and the progress of hospitals.
Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge
Originally published in 1992 Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge examines both broad developments in print and media and the practice of particular journals such as the British Medical Journal. The book is the first study to address these questions and to examine the impact of regular news on the making of the medical community. The book considers the rise of the medical press, and looks at how it recorded and described principal developments and so promoted medical science and enhanced medical consciousness. This book was a seminal work when first published and was one of the first to consider the importance of the roots of medical journalism, editorial practices and the ways in which the medical journalism altered the world of medicine.
