The Western Medical Tradition: 1800-2000

ISBN-13: 9780521475655 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 630 str.

William Bynum

Opis

Written by leading experts who not only describe the most important people, events, and transformations, but give explanations for why medicine developed as it did, this new edition contains one of the first historical summaries of the development of medicine after the Second World War. It is an authoritative source of new information as well as a synthesis of the current state of knowledge on this fascinating subject. The Western Medical Tradition, 1800-2000 is a companion volume to The Western Medical Tradition, 800 BC to AD 1800.

Recenzje

'This section will challenge many, if not most, honours students, but will be ultimately very rewarding for them (and their teachers). Jacyna skilfully deconstructs the ideological role of professional elites and medical heroes, and is tellingly sensitive to the historical significance of the lower ranks of the profession as the 'shock troops of the bourgeois revolution.' Medical History

Spis treści

1. Medicine in transformation, 1800–50 Stephen Jacyna; 2. The rise of science in medicine, 1850–1913 W. F. Bynum; 3. Continuity in crisis: medicine, 1914–45 Christopher Lawrence; 4. Medical enterprise and global response, 1945–2000 Anne Hardy and E. M. Tansey.