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Medicine, health, and the public sphere in Britain, 1600-2000 /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2002.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ;
16. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. In a series of detailed historical case studies, contributors examine the role of various public institutions - both formal and informal, voluntary and statutory - in organizing and coordinating collective action on medical matters. In so doing, th. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203552792 9780203552797 0203520173 9780203520178 0415279062 9780415279062 9781134467921 1134467923 9781134467877 1134467877 9781134467914 1134467915 |