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Title Medicine, health, and the public sphere in Britain, 1600-2000 / edited by Steve Sturdy.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Series Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 16
Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 16.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Print version record.
Contents pt. 1. Public-private interactions -- pt. 2. Voluntary institutions and the public sphere -- pt. 3. The state and the public sphere.
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.
Local Note EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text
Subject Social medicine -- Great Britain -- History.
Great Britain -- Social conditions.
Social Medicine -- history.
Social Conditions -- history.
United Kingdom.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Social medicine. (OCoLC)fst01122637
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Sturdy, Steve, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Medicine, health, and the public sphere in Britain, 1600-2000. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002 0415279062 (DLC) 2002068167 (OCoLC)49784583
ISBN 0203552792 (electronic book)
9780203552797 (electronic book)
0415279062 (alkaline paper)
9780415279062 (alkaline paper)
0203520173
9780203520178
041586304X
9780415863049
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