ISBN:
9780230287594
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (265 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4/61/094
Keywords:
Social medicine-Europe-History..
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Medicine-Europe-History..
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Medical care-Europe-History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- More than a Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Medicine, Mediation and Meaning -- 2 De Affectibus Cordis et Palpitatione: Secrets of the Heart in Counter-Reformation Italy -- 3 Neighbours and Gossip in Early Modern Gynaecology -- 4 Seventeenth-century English Almanacs: Transmitters of Advice for Sick Animals -- 5 Consulting by Letter in the Eighteenth Century: Mediating the Patient's View? -- 6 Medical Popularization and the Patient in the Eighteenth Century -- 7 Mediating Medicine through Private Letters: the Eighteenth-century Catalan Medical World -- 8 'Mediating Sexual Difference': the Medical Understanding of Human Hermaphrodites in Eighteenth-century England -- 9 Jules Guérin Makes his Market: the Social Economy of Orthopaedic Medicine in Paris, 1825-1845 -- 10 Clashing Knowledge-claims in Nineteenth-century English Vaccination -- 11 Sex and the Doctors: the Medicalization of Sexuality as a Two-way Process in Early to Mid-Twentieth-century Britain -- 12 Hailing a Miracle Drug: the Interferon -- 13 Afterword: Cultural Differences in Medicine -- Index.
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