Doctors, Politics And Society
Subtitle: Historical Essays.(Clio Medica/The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine 23) (Clio Medica 23/the Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine)
Contributors: Roy Porter (Editor)
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
Published: January 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9789051835106
Subjects: History: World; History Of Medicine; Sociology Of Medicine
First sentence: That colossus amongst British reformers, Jeremy Bentham, argued that 'the art of legislation is but the art of healing practised upon a large scale'; his plans for building a better society involved the establishment of a ministry of health.1