Medicine, Health and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1600-2000 (Studies in the Social History of Medicine)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 12, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780415279062
Subjects: British & Irish history; History of medicine; Medical / Nursing; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; Health Care Delivery; History; History / Great Britain; Modern - General; Great Britain; Social conditions; Social medicine
First sentence: We have only to conjure up such epithets as 'public health', 'private practise' and 'secret remedies' to begin to realize how intimate is the relationship between medicine and concepts of privacy and the public.