Langstaff: a nineteenth-century medical life
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the state. Caring for the poor in hospitals and during home visits, individual physicians since the Enlightenment got involved in political reform movements, joining their voices to describe the evils of urbanization and industrialization. Other work has exposed the recent political fortunes of the medical profession itself and its struggles to achieve a healing monopoly. As the Porters point out, less developed are studies focusing on the medicalization of politics, especially the employment of scientific yardsticks and moral authority in the formulation of public policy. This volume is meant as a beginning and incentive for further work. As such it has succeeded.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 39 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1995