Companion to medicine in the twentieth century
By: edited by Roger Cooter and John Pickstone.
Contributors: Cooter, Roger.; Pickstone, John V.
Series: Routledge world reference series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 756
Subjects: History, 20th Century; History of Medicine
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Production, community and consumption : the political economy of twentieth-century medicine; title: The golden age of medicine?; title: Health and medicine in interwar Europe; title: Soviet medicine; title: Colonial medicine; title: Health and health care in the progressive era; title: Post-colonial medicine; title: Medicine and the counter culture; title: Medicine and the welfare state 1930-1970; title: Pharmaceutical industry; title: The crises of the welfare states; title: Medicine, technology and industry; title: The historiographical body; title: The healthy body; title: The industrial body; title: The Third-World body; title: The temporal body; title: The sexual body; title: The reproductive body; title: The psychological body; title: The psychoanalytic body; title: The psychiatric body; title: The diseased body; title: The disabled body; title: The defended body; title: The genetic body; title: The analyzed body; title: The experimental body; title: The ethical body; title: The dead body; title: Media; title: Hospitals; title: Nurses; title: Health workers; title: Going to the doctor; title: Childbirth and maternity; title: Children's experience of illness; title: Wartime; title: Supported lives; title: Old age; title: Mental illness; title: Surgeons; title: Cancer; title: AIDS and patient-supported groups; title: Malaria; title: The Chinese experience.