History of Medicine Books

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81. Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare State

    Edited by Jonathan Barry, Colin Jones

    Published March 9th 1994 by Routledge
82. Sophia Jex-Blake

    A Woman Pioneer in Nineteenth Century Medical Reform

    By Shirley Roberts

    Sophia Jex-Blake led the campaign that won for British women the right to enter the medical profession. Before taking up this cause she had studied women's education in England, Germany and the United states, and rejected the popular contemporary view that higher education would be wasted on women....

    Published October 20th 1993 by Routledge
83. Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine

    Edited by W. F. Bynum, Roy Porter

    Series: Routledge Companion Encyclopedias

    This is a comprehensive reference work which surveys all aspects of the history of medicine, both clinical and social, and reflects the complementary approaches to the discipline. The editors have assembled an international team of scholars to provide detailed and informative factual surveys with...

    Published October 6th 1993 by Routledge
84. Taking Charge

    Nursing, Suffrage, and Feminism in America, 1873-1920

    By Sandra B. Lewenson

    Series: Development of American Feminism

    Published September 30th 1993 by Routledge
85. Greek Rational Medicine

    Philosophy and Medicine from Alcmaeon to the Alexandrians

    By James Longrigg

    The ancient Greek medical thinkers were profoundly influenced by Ionian natural philosophy. This philosophy caused them to adopt a radically new attitude towards disease and healing. James Longrigg shows how their rational attitudes ultimately resulted in levels of sophistication largely...

    Published June 30th 1993 by Routledge
86. Medicine and the Reformation

    Edited by Andrew Cunningham, Ole Peter Grell

    The tremendous changes in the role and significance of religion during Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation affected all of society. Yet, there have been few attempts to view medicine and the ideas underpinning it within the context of the period and see what changes it underwent....

    Published June 23rd 1993 by Routledge
87. British Medicine in an Age of Reform

    By Roger French, Andrew Wear

    British Medicine in an Age of Reform, charts the nature and dynamics of the radical changes which occurred between 1780 and 1850 - a great turning point in British medicine. Medicine was reformed just as politics was being reformed. It became a recognizable profession, and at the same time there...

    Published October 2nd 1991 by Routledge
88. History of Medicine

    By Rebecca Greene

    In this comprehensive and stimulating volume, the history of medicine is approached from a variety of perspectives to develop a well-rounded, objective overview. Historians examine the effects of society on medicine and of medicine on society and trace transformations in the the thought and...

    Published October 12th 1988 by Routledge
89. An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing

    By Robert Dingwall, Anne Marie Rafferty, Charles Webster

    In recent years the study of nursing history in Britain has been transformed by the application of concepts and methods from the social sciences to original sources. The myths and legends which have grown up through a century of anecdotal writing have been chipped away to reveal the complex story...

    Published October 5th 1988 by Routledge