Cultural Approaches to the History of Medicine

Cultural Approaches to the History of Medicine

 

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2003
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Historia social y cultural
ISBN:
9781403915696

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List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Medicine, Mediation and Meaning; W.de Blécourt and C.Usborne De Affectibus Cordis et Palpitatione: Secrets of the Heart in Counter-Reformation Italy; C.Santing Neighbours and Gossip in Early Modern Gynaecology; Y.Bar-On Seventeenth-century English Almanacs: Transmitters of Advice for Sick Animals; L.Curth Consulting by Letter in the Eighteenth century: Mediating the Patient’s View?; M.Louis-Courvoisier and S.Pilloud Medical Popularization and the Patient in the Eighteenth century; M.Stolberg ’Mediating Sexual Difference’: The Medical Understanding of Human Hermaphrodites in Eighteenth-century England; P.Fontes da Costa Mediating Medicine through Private Letters: The Eighteenth-century Catalan Medical World; A.Zarzoso Jules Guérin Makes his Market: The Social Economy of Orthopaedic Medicine in Paris, ca. 1825-1845; C.Malpas Clashing Knowledge-Claims in Nineteenth-century English Vaccination; L.Barrow Sex and the Doctors: The Medicalization of Sexuality as a Two-way Process in early to mid Twentieth-century Britain; H.Cook Hailing a Miracle Drug: The Interferon; T.Pieters Afterword: Cultural Differences in Medicine; M.Ramsey Index

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