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Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge: Historical Essays book cover

1st Edition

Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge Historical Essays

Edited By William F. Bynum, Stephen Lock, Roy Porter Copyright 1992
292 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1992 Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge examines both broad developments in print and media and the practice of particular journals such as the British Medical Journal . The book is the first study to address these questions and to examine the impact of regular news on the making of the medical community. The book considers the rise of the medical press, and looks... Read more

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. The Rise of Medical Journalism in Britain to 1800, Roy Porter

2. Periodical Knowledge: Medical Journals and their Editors in Nineteenth-Century Britain, W.F. Bynum and Janice C. Wilson

3. Medicine, Politics and the Medical Periodical 1800-50, Jean Loudon and Irvine Loudon

4. Medicine and the Victorian Scientific Press, W.H. Brock

5. ‘Notorious Abominations’: Architecture and the Public Health in The Builder 1843-83, Ruth Richardson

6. Social Diseases? Crime and Medicine in the Victorian Press, Michael Harris

7. The British Medical Journal: A Retrospect, Peter Bartrip

8. The American Medical Association and its Journal, Elizabeth Knoll

9. The British Medical Journal in America, John Burnham

10. Psychiatric Journals and the Evolution of Psychological Medicine, Michael Shepherd

11. The Medical Journals and the Politics of Public Health 1918-1990, Julian Tudor Hart

12. The British Medical Journal and the Twentieth-Century Consultant, Christopher C. Booth

Index

Biography

Stephen Lock, William F. Bynum, Roy Porter

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