"On Second Thought" and Other Essays in the History of Medicine and Science

Author: Owsei Temkin

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2002-01-11

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780801867743

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Over the course of a career spanning most of the twentieth century, distinguished historian Owsei Temkin has argued passionately for the necessity of chronicling and analyzing the history of medicine. The essays presented in this book span Dr. Temkin's career, bringing together new pieces and many previously unavailable outside the journals in which they were originally published. Here the reader will find new thoughts and ideas that deviate from Dr. Temkin's earlier beliefs and reflect a lifetime of research into the historical and ethical foundations of modern medicine.

Medicine in Society

Medicine in Society PDF

Author: Andrew Wear

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-02-27

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780521336390

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The social history of medicine over the last fifteen years has redrawn the boundaries of medical history. Specialised papers and monographs have contributed to our knowledge of how medicine has affected society and how society has shaped medicine. This book synthesises, through a series of essays, some of the most significant findings of this 'new social history' of medicine. The period covered ranges from ancient Greece to the present time. While coverage is not exhaustive, the reader is able to trace how medicine in the West developed from an unlicensed open market place, with many different types of practitioners in the classical period, to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century professionalised medicine of State influence, of hospitals, public health medicine, and scientific medicine. The book also covers innovatory topics such as patient-doctor relationships, the history of the asylum, and the demographic background to the history of medicine.

Medicine, Madness and Social History

Medicine, Madness and Social History PDF

Author: Roy Porter

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Published: 2007-06-15

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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Honoring and extending the work of historian Roy Porter, this volume offers lively, accessible and often topical chapters presenting orginal research on the social history of medicine, madness and the Enlightenment.

Essays in the History of Therapeutics

Essays in the History of Therapeutics PDF

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-01-29

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9004418318

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Therapeutics has been central to the medical enterprise in all times and all places, but a subject that is all too often neglected by historians. The essays in this volume follow a range in chronology from antiquity to the 1980s and in geography from the Mediterranean Basin to the New World. They touch on such matters as diet and drugs, magic and surgery, orthodox and unorthodox approaches. What they share is an attempt to get beyond the easy dismissal of almost all therapeutics before the twentieth century as meaningless and harmful and to examine concrete dimensions of the therapeutic encounter in its social, professional, religious and scientific reverberations.