What is Medical History?

ISBN: 978-0-7456-3224-7

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160 pages

April 2005, Polity

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What is Medical History? will be an invaluable textbook for all students of the history of medicine and science.
The second title in Polity's new series, 'What is History?', designed to be a key introductory textbook for students of the history of medicine and science.
Explores the reasons behind the expansion of the field of the history of medicine and health in recent times, for those with no prior knowledge of the subject.
Sheds light on a field once written entirely by physicians, but which now attracts not only historians but also policy makers and health care workers of all kinds.
Structured around 5 key themes: healers in all times and all places; patients from all ages and cultures; diseases; the discovery and communication of ideas; health care and societies.
John Burnham is a distinguished and versatile historian of medicine and health, and here he offers a colourful introduction to both traditional subjects and the latest controversies.