780 Pages
by
Taylor & Francis
776 Pages
by
Taylor & Francis
780 Pages
by
Taylor & Francis
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During the twentieth century, medicine has been radically transformed and powerfully transformative. In 1900, western medicine was important to philanthropy and public health, but it was marginal to the state, the industrial economy and the welfare of most individuals. It is now central to these aspects of life. Our prospects seem increasingly dependent on the progress of bio-medical sciences and... Read more
Section 1: Introduction Section 2: Power 1. Production, Community and Consumption: The Politcal Economy of Tentieth Century Medicine 2. The Golden Age of Medicine? Science and Medicine, 1880-2000 3. Health and Medicine in Interwar Europe 4. Soviet Medicine 5. Colonial Medicine 6. Health and Healthcare in the Progressive Era 7. History of Post-Colonial Medicine 8. Medicine and Counter-Culture 9. Medicine and th eWelfare State 1930-1970 10. The Pharmaceutical Industry in the Twentieth Century 11. Medicine, Technology and Industry 12. Welfare States Section 3: Bodies 1. The Historiographical Body 2. The Healthy Body 3. The Industrial Body 4. The 'Third World Body' 5. The Temporal Body 6. The Sexual Body 7. The Reproductive Body 8. The Psychological body 9. The Psychoanalytic body 10. The Psychiatric Body 11. The Diseased Body 12. The Disabled Body 13. The Genetic Body 14. The Analysed Body 15. The Experimental Body 16. The Ethical Body 16. The Dead Body Section 4: Experiences 1. Media 2. Hospitals 3. Nurses 4. Health Workers 5. Going to the Doctor 6. Childbirth and Maternity 7. Children's Experience of Illness 8. Wars 9. Supported Lives 10. Old Age 11. Mental Illness 12. Surgeons 13. Cancer 14. AIDS and Patient/Support Groups 15. Malaria 16. The Chinese Experience
Biography
Roger Cooter and John V. Pickstone
