The Western Medical Tradition: 1800–2000

by W. F. Bynum , Anne Hardy , Stephen Jacyna , Christopher Lawrence , E. M. Tansey

• ISBN13: 9780521475242
• ISBN10: 0521475244
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-06
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

A detailed and authoritative account of the last two centuries of the development of ‘Western’ medicine, a tradition now important everywhere in the world. It is a new account, written by leading experts who not only describe the most important people, events, and transformations, but give explanations for why medicine developed as it did, becoming as important as it has in the modern world. It contains one of the first historical summaries of the development of medicine after the Second World War. It is an authoritative source of new information as well as a synthesis of the current state of knowledge on this fascinating subject. The Western Medical Tradition, 1800–2000 is a companion volume to The Western Medical Tradition, 800 BC to AD 1800.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
List of tables	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
Introduction	1	(10)
Chronological table for chapter 1
Medicine in transformation, 1800--1849	11	(100)
Stephen Jacyna
Introduction	11	(17)
Inventing medical tradition	28	(25)
Sociologies of nineteenth-century medicine	53	(28)
The social body	81	(16)
Conclusion	97	(14)
Chronological table for chapter 2
The rise of science in medicine, 1850--1913	111	(136)
W. F. Bynum
Medical science	111	(24)
Medical institutions	135	(30)
Disease and diseases	165	(38)
Medicine and society	203	(26)
Doctors and the state	229	(18)
Chronological table for chapter 3
Continuity in crisis: medicine, 1914--1945	247	(158)
Christopher Lawrence
Overview	247	(3)
World War I, 1914--1918	250	(16)
Between the wars	266	(3)
Medical institutions	269	(36)
Medical research	305	(13)
The pharmaceutical industry	318	(5)
Welfare	323	(4)
The future of nations	327	(9)
Diseases and accidents	336	(9)
Provision for sickness	345	(8)
Medicine in the Soviet Union	353	(10)
Internationalism	363	(10)
Nazi Germany	373	(7)
World War II, 1939--1945	380	(9)
1914--1945, the legacy	389	(16)
Chronological table for chapter 4
Medical enterprise and global response, 1945--2000	405	(130)
Anne Hardy
E. M. Tansey
Overview	405	(3)
Medical research	408	(14)
Health and disease	422	(16)
Medical practice	438	(21)
Medical education	459	(3)
The translation of medical research into medical practice	462	(68)
Medicine and the media	530	(5)
Afterword	535	(2)
Bibliographical essays	537	(28)
General bibliography	565	(20)
Index	585