Medicine in 1800

Popular Medicine in America 1800-1900.

American medicine and statistical thinking, 1800—1860

well-known study of English ecclesiastical thought on social questions, was clearly in an ideal position to investigate the campaigns and ruminations on fertility in this period, and he has done the job with exemplary thoroughness and care. It is possibly to be regretted that the author did not highlight the peculiarities of the English debate on these questions by reference to more European an...

Health care and traditional medicine in China 1800—1982

medicine. The bibliography updates its 1956 edition, includes works published as late as 1983, and concentrates on historical rather than historic items, the latter being covered by Sir Edward Ford and the bibliography of Australian medicine currently in progress. Gandevia urges users to read the introduction: this outlines the rationale, parameters, format, and future of the work. It is pleasi...

The Advent of Modern Medicine in Philadelphia, 1800-1850 *

The historian can quote sources to suit his own purpose. It would be easy to portray the American medicine of 1800 as essentially forward-looking and progressive, if just the right evidence were selected to support this interpretation. This was indeed the view of contemporary physicians themselves, who faced the nineteenth century confident that American science had more than caught up with tha...

Gentlemen, scientists and doctors: medicine at Cambridge 1800–1940

officer of health and the failure to develop an attractive vision of nursing in the future. Telling too is the section on the rise of environmentalism and the de-regulation of personal life with the coming of the pill. For 1974 to the 1990s the account of the main health policy drama of the 1990 reforms misses out on the crucial role of fund-holding reflecting perhaps a lack of focus of the rol...