Medicine, health, and the public sphere in Britain, 1600-2000

Summary: Medicine is concerned with the most intimate aspects of private life. Yet it is also a focus for diverse forms of public organization and action. In this volume, an international team of scholars use the techniques of medical history to analyse the changing boundaries and constitution of the public sphere from early modernity to the present day. In a series of detailed historical case studies, contributors examine the role of various public institutions - both formal and informal, voluntary and statutory - in organizing and coordinating collective action on medical matters. In so doing, th.

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ISBN: 9780415863049
ISBN: 041586304X
ISBN: 1134467915
ISBN: 9781134467914
ISBN: 1134467877
ISBN: 9781134467877
ISBN: 1134467923
ISBN: 9781134467921
ISBN: 9780415279062
ISBN: 0415279062
ISBN: 9780203520178
ISBN: 0203520173
ISBN: 9780203552797
ISBN: 0203552792
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	pt. 1. Public-private interactions -- pt. 2. Voluntary institutions and the public sphere -- pt. 3. The state and the public sphere.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.