Medicine and Modernity
Subtitle: Public Health and Medical Care in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany (Publications of the German Historical Institute)
Contributors: Manfred Berg (Editor); Geoffrey Cocks (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 28, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521564113
Subjects: Health systems & services; History of medicine; History: World; Health Care; Sociology Of Medicine; Social medicine; Health & Fitness; History - General History; History; Health Care Delivery; Europe - Germany; Medical / History; Social medicine--Germany--History--19th century; 20th century; Medical policy; Health Care Issues; 19th century; Germany
First sentence: In recent years historians of nineteenth-century medicine have traced the development of physicians' professional interests, concentrating on the interplay of professional ambitions and reasons of state that have led to the medical profession's control over private life.