Medicine in Society Historical Essays [Paperback]

These essays synthesises many of the most significant findings of recent research from ancient Greece to the present day.Essays trace the evolution of Western medicine from an unlicensed open market place, with greatly varied practitioners in the classical period, to the highly professionalized science of the nineteenth and twentieth century.Essays trace the evolution of Western medicine from an unlicensed open market place, with greatly varied practitioners in the classical period, to the highly professionalized science of the nineteenth and twentieth century.The social history of medicine over the past fifteen years has redrawn the boundaries of medical history. Specialized papers and monographs have contributed to our knowledge of how medicine has affected society and how society has shaped medicine. This book synthesizes, through a series of essays, some of the most significant findings of this new social history of medicine. The period covered ranges from ancient Greece to the present time. While coverage is not exhaustive, the reader is able to trace how medicine in the West developed from an unlicensed open market place, with many different types of practitioners in the classical period, to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century professionalized medicine of State influence, of hospitals, public health medicine, and scientific medicine. The book also covers innovative topics such as patient-doctor relationships, the history of the asylum, and the demographic background to the history of medicine.1. Introduction Andrew Wear; 2. Healers in the medical market place: towards a social history of Graeco-Roman medicine Vivian Nutton; 3. Medicine and society in medieval Europe, 5001500 Katharine Park; 4. The patient in England, c. 1660c. 1800 Roy Porter; 5. Making sense of health and the environment in early modern England Andrew Wear; 6. Medicine in the age of Enlightenment Guenter B. Granshaw; 7. The rise of the modern hospital in Britain Lindsay Granshaw;l#—