Healthcare in private and public from the early modern period to 2000 / edited by Paul Weindling.

Date:
2015
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Description

"Discussing the history of medicine and its social relations across the globe from the early modern period to 2000, this title examines how modernisation of healthcare resulted in a range of social arrangements in public and private"--Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Physical description

xiv, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-249) and index.

Contents

Public and private health care for the poor, 1650s to 1960s / Elizabeth Hurren and Steven King -- Children's health in public and private, 1700-1950 / Alysa Levene -- Mental disorder, crime and the development of healthcare systems / Katherine D. Watson -- Health care and the design and management of public and private space : Britain, France and the US, c. 1750-c. 1950 / Tom Crook -- Private and public traditions of health care in Central and South-Eastern Europe, from the nineteenth to the (mid-) twentieth centuries / Marius Turda -- Healthcare as nation-building in the twentieth century : the case of the British National Health Service / Glen O'Hara and George Campbell Gosling -- South Africa's mixed economy of health care / Anne Digby -- Pharmaceutical innovation in the public and private spheres in the twentieth century Viviane Quirke -- International health between public and private in the twentieth-century / Paul Weindling.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 9780415727006
  • 0415727006
  • 9780415727037
  • 0415727030