An Introduction to the Social History of Medicine

KEIR WADDINGTON is Reader in the Social History of Medicine and Head of History at Cardiff University, UK. He has written a number of books on the history of hospitals, asylums, medical education and public health. He is closely involved with the Society for the Social History of Medicine.

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Preface
Understanding the History of Medicine: Historiography
Disease, Illness and Society
Medicine and Religion
Women, Health and Medicine
Medical Self-Help and the Market for Medicine
Anatomy and Medicine
Surgery
Hospitals
 Practitioners and Professionalization
Science and the Practice of Medicine
Nursing
Public Health
Healthcare and the State
Medicine and Empire
Medicine and Warfare
The Rise of the Asylum
Afterword
Index.