A Cultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-6988-2 (ISBN)

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A Cultural History of Medicine presents anauthoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumescovers over 2500 years of history, charting the changes in medical experience,knowledge and practices throughout history.

This volume, ACultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age, explores medicine as acultural practice from 1920 to the present day. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Medicineset, this volume presents essays on the environment, food, war, animals, objects,experiences, authority and the mind.

A Cultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age is the most authoritative andcomprehensive survey available on medicine in the modern period.

Todd Meyers is Associate Professor of Social Studies in Medicine at McGill University, Canada. Roger Cooter is Wellcome Professorial Fellow at UCL Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, UK.

Introduction: Definitionand understandings
1. Environment
2. Food
3. War
4. Animals
5. Objects
6. Experiences
7. Mind/Brain
8. Authority
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.05.2023
Reihe/Serie	The Cultural Histories Series
Zusatzinfo	43 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Gewicht	1000 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-4725-6988-1 / 1472569881
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-6988-2 / 9781472569882
Zustand	Neuware