Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Ideas as actors; 2. Institutions and medical care; 3. The past in the present: using medical history; Index.

Promotional Information

Medicine until recently remained a history written by and for practitioners, these essays diverge from this tradition.

Reviews

'The distinguished author of this collection of scholarly essays, the President of the American Association for the History of Medicine, brings the history of medicine out of the parochial concerns of practitioners of the discipline, viewing it within 'the rich context of the intellectual and social change of the last two centuries ... Intellectually stimulating.' Journal of the Institute of Health Education