The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500-2000

Contents: Preface: 'For the improvement of all things'; The instauration of the image of God in man: humanist anthropology, encyclopaedic pedagogy, Baconianism and universal reform, Howard Hotson; Harmony, health, and healing: music's role in early modern Paracelsian thought, Penelope Gouk; The economy of magic in early modern England, Lauren Kassell; Chemical medicine and Paracelsianism in Italy, 1550-1650, Antonio Clericuzio; Politics, medicine, and masculinity: physicians and office-bearing in early modern England, Margaret Pelling; A 'sanative contagion': Henry More on faith healing, Robert Crocker; William Petty and Anne Greene: medical and political reform in commonwealth Oxford, Scott Mandelbrote; Between anatomy and politics: John Finch and Italy, 1649-71, Stefano Villani; The origins of the Royal Society revisited, Mordechai Feingold; The 'great projector': John Cary and the legacy of Puritan reform in Bristol 1647-1720, Jonathan Barry; Medicine, race and radicalism in the later Scottish enlightenment, Colin Kidd; After the revolution: scientific language and French politics, 1795-1802, Pietro Corsi; 'Babies of the Empire': the evolution of infant welfare services in New Zealand and Britain in the first half of the 20th century, Linda Bryder; Hospitals, regions, and central authority: issues in Scottish hospital planning, 1947-74, John Stewart; Hospital provision, resource allocation, and the early National Health Service: the Sheffield regional hospital board, 1947-74, John Welshman; International recruitment of nurses to the UK: the history of the present, Anne Marie Rafferty; Professional status and professional regulation in the 1970s: the case of the Briggs committee on nursing and the Merrison committee on the regulation of the medical profession, Jane Lewis; New social movement or government-funded voluntary sector? ASH (Action on Smoking and Health), science, and anti-tobacco activism in the 1970s, Virginia Berridge; Select publications