Problems and methods in the history of medicine
By: edited by Roy Porter and Andrew Wear.
Contributors: Porter, Roy, 1946-; Wear, A. 1946-
Series: The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
Publisher: Croom
Published: 1987
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Medicine -- Historiography.; Historiography.; History of Medicine.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: The Annales and medical historiography / Toby Gelfand; title: Twenty years on problems of historical methodology in the history of health / J.-P. Goubert; title: Montpellier medical students and the medicalisation of 18th-century France / Colin Jones; title: Popular culture and knowledge of the body / Françoise Loux; title: Methodological problems in modern urban history writing / Arthur E. Imhof; title: No death without birth / E.A. Wrigley; title: Quantitative and qualitative perspectives on the asylum / Anne Digby; title: Hospital history / Guenter B. Risse; title: Madness, suicide, and the computer / Michael MacDonald; title: Interfaces / Andrew Wear.