Cultural Approaches to the History of Medicine: Mediating Medicine in Early Modern and Modern Europe
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Usborne, Cornelie; Blecourt, Willem de. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; HBTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 200.
A pioneering contribution to the cultural history of medicine exploring issues as diverse as dissection of the heart, childbirth, masturbation, animal care, hermaphrodites, orthopaedics, 'miracle' drugs, smallpox and sex advice in different European cultures from the 1600s to the present day. Each case study illustrates various roles of mediation; reconciling conflicting ideas in the medical encounter; as an instrument of domination, or conversely, of resistance. Roy Porter's brilliant foreword conveys the methodological significance as well as the pleasure of these essays.
A pioneering contribution to the cultural history of medicine exploring issues as diverse as dissection of the heart, childbirth, masturbation, animal care, hermaphrodites, orthopaedics, 'miracle' drugs, smallpox and sex advice in different European cultures from the 1600s to the present day. Each case study illustrates various roles of mediation; reconciling conflicting ideas in the medical encounter; as an instrument of domination, or conversely, of resistance. Roy Porter's brilliant foreword conveys the methodological significance as well as the pleasure of these essays.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
241
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403915696
SKU
V9781403915696
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Ref
99-15
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YAARAH BAR-ON Deputy Director, Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv University LOGIE BARROW Professor of British Social History and Political Traditions, University of Bremen, Germany HERA COOK Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney LOUISE HILL CURTH Lecturer, University of Exeter PALMIRA FONTES DA COSTA Assistant Professor, New University of Lisbon MICHELINE LOUIS-COURVOISIER Geneva Medical School CONSTANCE MALPAS Digital Initiatives Coordinator, New York Academy ... Read more
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