Locating Medical History: The Stories and Their Meanings - Couverture souple

Danielle Gourevitch; Warwick Anderson; Roger Cooter; Elizabeth Fee; Mary E. Fissell; Hans-Uwe Lammel; Thomas Rütten

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0801885485 ISBN 13 : 9780801885488

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

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Locating Medical History Explores and reflects on a field that accommodates a diversity of practitioners and approaches. This work discusses such issues as the periodic estrangement of medical history from medicine, the influence of Foucault on the writing of medical history, and the shifts from social to cultural history and back again. Full description

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The issues constituting the history of medicine are consequential: how societies organize health care, how individuals or states relate to sickness, how we understand our own identity and agency as sufferers or healers. In Locating Medical History: The Stories and Their Meanings, Frank Huisman, John Harley Warner, and other eminent historians explore and reflect on a field that accommodates a remarkable diversity of practitioners and approaches. At a time when medical history is facing profound choices about its future, these scholars explore the discipline in the distant and recent past in order to rethink its missions and methods today. They discuss such issues as the periodic estrangement of medical history from medicine, the influence of Foucault on the writing of medical history, and the shifts from social to cultural history and back again. Chapters explore the early history of the field, its transformations since the 1970s, and its prospects for the future. With diverse constituencies, a multiplicity of approaches, styles, and aims is both expected and desired. This volume locates medical history within itself and within larger historiographic trends, to provide a springboard for discussions about what the history of medicine should be, and what aims it should serve. Contributors: Olga Amsterdamska, University of Amsterdam; Warwick Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Allan M. Brandt, Harvard Medical School; Theodore M. Brown, University of Rochester; Roger Cooter, University College London; Martin Dinges, Institut fYr Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung; Alice Domurat Dreger, Michigan State University; Jacalyn Duffin, Queen's University; Elizabeth Fee, National Library of Medicine; Mary E. Fissell, The Johns Hopkins University; Danielle Gourevitch, fcole Pratique des Hautes ftudes; Anja Hiddinga, University of Amsterdam; Ludmilla Jordanova, University of East Anglia; Alfons Labisch, Heinri

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• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0801885485
• ISBN 13: 9780801885488
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 522
• Éditeur: Frank Huisman, John Harley Warner