Medical Innovations in Historical Perspective
Published on 15. June 1992
Book
Hardback
XV, 288 pages
978-0-333-55619-1 (ISBN)
Description
A team of medical historians apply the techniques of social history to key questions of medical innovation. The topics include surgical techniques, new therapies, and psychiatry; they range from the 1860s to the 1960s and include European and American examples as well as British. How and why were new forms of medicine initiated? How were they understood, received, or rejected? The answers given will interest students and practitioners in history, sociology, economics, medicine and policy studies.
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Series
Edition
1992
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
biography
Dimensions
Height: 22.3 cm
Width: 14.5 cm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-55619-1 (9780333556191)
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John V. Pickstone
Medical Innovations in Historical Perspective
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06/1992
Palgrave MacMillan
€98.19
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Content
Series Introduction - Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; J.V.Pickstone - 'Upon this Principle I have based a Practice'. The Development and Reception of Antisepsis in Britain, 1867-90; L.Granshaw - The Sanatorium Treatment for Consumption in Britain, 1890-1914; M.Worboys - From Medical Research to Clinical Practice: Serum Therapy for Diphtheria in the 1890s; P.Weindling - Vaccine Therapy and Laboratory Medicine in Edwardian Britain; M.Worboys - From the Trenches to the Hospitals at Home: Physiologists, Clinicians and Oxygen Therapy, 1914-30; S.Sturdy - X-Ray Technology in Obstetrics: Measuring Pelves at the Yale School of Medicine; A.Hiddinga - The Politics of a Spatial Innovation: Fracture Clinics in Interwar Britain; R.Cooter - Cortisone and the Politics of Drama, 1949-55; D.Cantor - Psychiatry in District General Hospitals: History, Contingency and Local Innovation in the Early Years of the National Health Service; J.V.Pickstone - References - Index