The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500û2000: Essays for Charles Webster

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ISBN: 9780754639336 | 0754639339
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Copyright: 12/28/2005

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Histories of medicine and science are histories of political and social change, as well as accounts of the transformation of particular disciplines over time. This volume considers the effect that demands for social and political reform have had on the theory and, above all, the practice of medicine and science, and on the promotion of human health, from the Renaissance and Enlightenment up to the present.

Notes on Contributors

vii

Preface: 'For the Improvement of all Things'

1 The Instauration of the Image of God in Man: Humanist Anthropology, Encyclopaedic Pedagogy, Baconianism and Universal Reform

(22)

Howard Hotson

2 Harmony, Health, and Healing: Music's Role in Early Modern Paracelsian Thought

(20)

Penelope Gouk

3 The Economy of Magic in Early Modern England

Lauren Kassell

(16)

4 Chemical Medicine and Paracelsianism in Italy, 1550-1650

Antonio Clericuzio

(22)

5 Politics, Medicine, and Masculinity: Physicians and Office-bearing in Early Modern England

Margaret Pelling

(26)

6 A 'Sanative Contagion': Henry More on Faith Healing

Robert Crocker

107

(18)

7 William Petty and Anne Greene: Medical and Political Reform in Commonwealth Oxford

Scott Mandelbrote

125

(26)

8 Between Anatomy and Politics: John Finch and Italy, 1649-1671

Stefano Villani

151

(16)

9 The Origins of the Royal Society Revisited

Mordechai Feingold

167

(18)

10 The 'Great Projector': John Cary and the Legacy of Puritan Reform in Bristol, 1647-1720

Jonathan Barry

185

(22)

11 Medicine, Race, and Radicalism in the Later Scottish Enlightenment

Colin Kidd

207

(16)

12 After the Revolution: Scientific Language and French Politics, 1795-1802

Pietro Corsi

223

(24)

13 'Babies of the Empire': The Evolution of Infant Welfare Services in New Zealand and Britain in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Linda Bryder

247

(16)

14 Hospitals, Regions, and Central Authority: Issues in Scottish Hospital Planning, 1947-1974

263

(16)

John Stewart

15 Hospital Provision, Resource Allocation, and the Early National Health Service: The Sheffield Regional Hospital Board, 1947-1974

John Welshman

279

(24)

16 International Recruitment of Nurses to the UK: The History of the Present

Anne Marie Rafferty

303

(12)

17 Professional Status and Professional Regulation in the 1970's: The Case of the Briggs Committee on Nursing and the Merrison Committee on the Regulation of the Medical Profession

Jane Lewis

315

(18)

18 New Social Movement or Government-Funded Voluntary Sector? ASH (Action on Smoking and Health), Science, and Anti-Tobacco Activism in the 1970's

Virginia Berridge

333

(16)

Select Publications of Charles Webster

compiled by Margaret Pelting

349

(14)

Index

363

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The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500û2000: Essays for Charles Webster

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