Problems and Methods in the History of Medicine

ISBN-13: 9780367002114 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 268 str.

Roy Porter; Andrew Wear

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Notes on Contributors  Acknowledgments  Introduction  Part I: The French Connection  1. The Annales and Medical Historiography: Bilan et Perspectives  2. Twenty Years On: Problems of Historical Methodology in the History of Health  3. Montpelier Medical Students and the Medicalisation of 18^th-Century France  4. Popular Culture and Knowledge of the Body: Infancy and the Medical Anthropologist  Part II: Medical History and Historical Demography  5. Methodological Problems in Modern Urban History Writing: Graphic Representations of Urban Mortality 1750-1850  6. No Death Without Birth: The Implications of English Mortality in the Early Modern Period  Part III: Computers and the History of Institutions  7. Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives on the Asylum  8. Hospital History: New Sources and Methods  Part IV: The Qualitative and Quantitative  9. Madness, Suicide, and the Computer  10. Interfaces: Perspectives of Health and Illness in Early Modern England  Index

O autorze

Porter, Roy; Wear, Andrew