Doctors, Politics and Society: Historical Essays

Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-90-5183-510-6
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

Reihe: Clio Medica

The great British reformer Jeremy Bentham wrote that 'the art of legislation is but the art of healing practised upon a large scale'. He added that 'It is the common endeavour of both to relieve men from the miseries of life. But the physician relieves them one by one: the legislator by millions at a time'. Bentham raised the question of the interplay of medicine with politics. It forms an important topic with powerful contemporary overtones. This volume, containing eleven essays plus a lengthy introduction, seeks to explore it historically. It takes a long perspective, covering the last two centuries and also an international viewpoint, examining Britain in detail but also containing contributions dealing with the United States, Germany, Russia and France.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Porter, Dorothy

Porter, Roy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Bentham's Utilitarianism and the Provision of Medical Care

Janet SEMPLE

Southwood Smith: The Intellectual Sources of Public Service

R.K. WEBB

Lyon Playfair and the Idea of Progress: Science and Medicine in Victorian Parliamentary Politics

Anne HARDY


Désiré Magloire Bourneville and French Anticlericalism During the Third Republic

Bernard BRAIS

The Demographic Argument in Soviet Debates over the Legalization of Abortion in the 1920s

Susan GROSS SOLOMON

Heinrich Zeiss (1888-1949), German Medicine and the Holocaust

Paul WEINDLING

The Sick Poor and the State: Newsholme on Poverty, Disease and Responsibility

John M. EYLER


The Metamorphosis of Dawson of Penn

Charles WEBSTER

Christopher Addison: A Realist in Pursuit of Dreams

Frank HONIGSBAUM

John Ryle: Doctor of Revolution?

Dorothy PORTER

Doing History, making Revolution: the Aspirations of Henry E. Sigerist and George Rosen

Elizabeth FEE and Edward MORMAN

Index