Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge: Historical Essays

ISBN-13: 9780367076009 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 292 str.

William F. Bynum; Stephen Lock; Roy Porter

Opis

Originally published in 1992 Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge examines both broad developments in print and media and the practice of particular journals. 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.

Spis treści

List of Figures  List of Contributors  Acknowledgements  Introduction  1. The Rise of Medical Journalism in Britain to 1800  2. Periodical Knowledge: Medical Journals and their Editors in Nineteenth-Century Britain  3. Medicine, Politics and the Medical Periodical 1800-50  4. Medicine and the Victorian Scientific Press  5. ‘Notorious Abominations’: Architecture and the Public Health in The Builder 1843-83  6. Social Diseases? Crime and Medicine in the Victorian Press  7. The British Medical Journal: A Retrospect  8. The American Medical Association and its Journal  9. The British Medical Journal in America  10. Psychiatric Journals and the Evolution of Psychological Medicine  11. The Medical Journals and the Politics of Public Health 1918-1990  12. The British Medical Journal and the Twentieth-Century Consultant  Index

O autorze

Stephen Lock, William F. Bynum, Roy Porter