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)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 22, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521524568
Subjects: History of medicine; Public health & preventive medicine; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Germany; Health Care Delivery; History; Medical / History; Medical-Health Care Delivery; Social medicine--Germany--History--19th centu; Social medicine--Germany--History--19th century
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.