Ideas and practices in the history of medicine, 1650-1850. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Adrian Wilson.
• Authors: Wilson, Adrian, 1947-
• Contents: Contents: Introduction. Part 1 Childbirth and Midwifery: William Hunter and the varieties of man-midwifery; The ceremony of childbirth and its interpretation; A memorial of Eleanor Willughby, a seventeenth-century midwife. Part 2 Medical Institutions: The politics of medical improvement in early Hanoverian London; Conflict, consensus and charity: politics and the provincial voluntary hospitals in the eighteenth century; The Birmingham General Hospital and its public, 1765-79. Part 3 Medical Concepts and Practices: On the history of disease-concepts: the case of pleurisy; Porter versus Foucault on the ’birth of the clinic’. Index.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 616.009; Medicine -- History; Medicine -- Practice -- History; Medical innovations -- History; Medicine -- Great Britain -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000939477
• Related ISBNs: 9781000945669
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