Medicine is concerned with the most intimate aspects of private life. Yet it is also a focus for diverse forms of public organization and action. In this volume, an international team of scholars use the techniques of medical history to analyse the changing boundaries and constitution of the public sphere from early modernity to the present day.
Medicine is concerned with the most intimate aspects of private life. Yet it is also a focus for diverse forms of public organization and action. In t...
Individuals or groups define their identities in particular ways, choosing from a long list of social variables: nationality, class, race, gender, age, sexuality, occupation or marital status, all of which may change either by choice or fiat. During the 20th century, the issue of identity became increasingly important and yet it remains a problematic category of historical analysis. The historical record is full of diplomats and peasants discussing medicine and health concerns and topics which are significant to the study of medicine - professionalization, therapeutic choice, medical...
Individuals or groups define their identities in particular ways, choosing from a long list of social variables: nationality, class, race, gender, age...
The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most debated and discussed issues in social history.
Focusing on the second half of the nineteenth century, The Politics of Madness provides a new perspective on this important topic, based on research drawn from both local and national material. Within a social and cultural history of the English political and class order, it presents a fresh appraisal of the significance of the asylum in the decades following the creation of a national asylum system in 1845.
Arguing that the new asylums provided a meeting...
The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most debated and discussed issues in social history.
This collection opens up the post war history of public health to sustained research based, historical scrutiny. It examines the development of a new view of 'the health of the public' and the influences that shaped it in the post war years.
This collection opens up the post war history of public health to sustained research based, historical scrutiny. It examines the development of a new ...
This volume views risk and medical innovation in a social historical perspective providing a much-needed contribution to our knowledge of the historical development of the modern notions of risk and safety.
This volume views risk and medical innovation in a social historical perspective providing a much-needed contribution to our knowledge of the historic...
The changing face of the female smoker, from the lady smokers of the late nineteenth century to the lone mother of the late twentieth century, suggests that the history of smoking among women is not just about the assimilation of women into a male practice, but about the changing, and varied, circumstances of women's lives. In this innovative study, Elliott articulates the way in which the history of smoking among women raises complex questions about the construction of female identities in relation to smoking, and the implications of this for understanding smoking among women as a medical...
The changing face of the female smoker, from the lady smokers of the late nineteenth century to the lone mother of the late twentieth century, sugg...
Financing Medicine brings together a collection of essays dealing with the financing of medical care in Britain since the mid-eighteenth century, with a view to addressing two major issues:
Why did the funding of the British health system develop in the way it did?
What were the ramifications of these arrangements for the nature and extent of health care before the NHS?
The book also goes on to explore the 'lessons' and legacies of the past which bear upon developments under the NHS.
The contributors to this volume provide a sustained and detailed...
Financing Medicine brings together a collection of essays dealing with the financing of medical care in Britain since the mid-eighteenth century, w...
Collecting together essays written by an international set of contributors, this book provides an important contribution to the emerging field of disability history. It explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and reveal the ways in which different societies have conceptualised the normal and the pathological.
Through a variety of case studies including: early modern birth defects, homosexuality, smallpox scarring, vaccination, orthopaedics, deaf education, eugenics, mental deficiency, and the experiences of...
Collecting together essays written by an international set of contributors, this book provides an important contribution to the emerging field of d...
Taking forward the debate on the role and power of institutions for treating and incarcerating the insane, this volume challenges recent scholarship and focuses on a wide range of factors impacting on the care and confinement of the insane since 1850, including such things as the community, Poor Law authorities, local government and the voluntary sector.
Questioning the notion that institutions were generally 'benign' and responsive to the needs of households, this work also emphasizes the important role of the diversity of interests in shaping institutional facilities.
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Taking forward the debate on the role and power of institutions for treating and incarcerating the insane, this volume challenges recent scholarshi...
This collection examines the relationships between the statutory and voluntary sectors in a variety of national settings, including Britain, the United States, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Canada and Germany during the last two hundred and fifty years.
International in perspective, this is the first book to examine the variety of relationships between the statutory and voluntary sectors in Europe and America. An impressive list of contributors come together to investigate the issue of provision and its history in various geographical areas, and to create a book as topical as it is...
This collection examines the relationships between the statutory and voluntary sectors in a variety of national settings, including Britain, the Un...
