Health, Disease and Society in Europe,

Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1800-1930provides readers with unrivaled access to a comprehensive range of sources on major themes in nineteenth and early twentieth-century medicine. The book covers issues such as the changing role of the hospital, disease, colonial and imperial medicine, women, war, the emergence of modern surgery, welfare and the state, and the growth of asylum. Extracts from contemporary writings vividly illustrate key aspects of medical thought and practice, while a selection of classic historical research and up-to-date work in the field gives a sense of our understanding of medical history. Introductions make the sources accessible to the student as well as the interested general reader.

Deborah Brunton is Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the Open University.

Acknowledgements

viii

Introduction

xii

Part one - The rise of hospital medicine

1

(23)

1.1 Hospital and laboratory medicine

1

(5)

1.2 Surgeons and the medicalisation of the hospital

6

(5)

1.3 The inpatient

11

(6)

1.4 Mr Scott's case

17

(7)

Part two - The changing role of the hospital

24

(21)

2.1 Rules for the admission and discharge of patients

24

(4)

2.2 An appeal for funds

28

(4)

2.3 The patient's experience

32

(4)

2.4 Designing the ideal hospital

36

(2)

2.5 Gateways to death?

38

(7)

Part three - The emergence of modern surgery

45

(20)

3.1 Surgery and medicine

45

(4)

3.2 Surgery and experimental medicine

49

(1)

3.3 The impact of anaesthesia

50

(12)

3.4 Surgery and research

62

(3)

Part four - The role of the laboratory

65

(25)

4.1 The power of the laboratory

65

(4)

4.2 Laboratory knowledge

69

(6)

4.3 The rationale for the laboratory

75

(6)

4.4 The role of the laboratory in the hospital

81

(4)

4.5 The impact of vaccine therapy

85

(5)

Part five - The emergence of a modern profession

90

(25)

5.1 Occupational closure and the 1858 Medical Act

90

(4)

5.2 The Medical Act of 1858

94

(3)

5.3 An operation by Bransby Cooper

97

(2)

5.4 Medical ethics

99

(3)

5.5 Mesmerism vs ether: a professional battle

102

(9)

5.6 A squabble between doctors

111

(4)

Part six - Women in medicine

115

(22)

6.1 The biological destiny of women

115

(1)

6.2 Women as doctors and women as nurses

116

(2)

6.3 Elizabeth Blackwell, a medical pioneer

118

(4)

6.4 Motives for medical training

122

(2)

6.5 The impact of women doctors

124

(3)

6.6 Nurses and servants

127

(8)

6.7 Florence Nightingale on nurse training

135

(2)

Part seven - Disease in populations

137

(23)

7.1 An early account of public health history

137

(3)

7.2 Unhealthy environments

140

(5)

7.3 Reassessing Chadwick's Sanitary Report

145

(5)

7.4 The problems of sanitary reform in Islington

150

(5)

7.5 The problems of sewering Farnham

155

(2)

7.6 Popular health education

157

(3)

Part eight - Colonial and Imperial medicine

160

(22)

8.1 Health, race and nation

160

(8)

8.2 La lutte: the campaign against sleeping sickness

168

(6)

8.3 The madman and the medicine men

174

(8)

Part nine - From germ theory to social medicine

182

(22)

9.1 Responses to laboratory medicine

182

(3)

9.2 A bacteriological approach to controlling typhoid

185

(3)

9.3 Population and politics in Italy

188

(2)

9.4 Social hygiene in the Soviet Union

190

(6)

9.5 Sex education in Germany

196

(4)

9.6 The Rockefeller campaign against tuberculosis

200

(4)

Part ten - The fortunes of eugenics

204

(25)

10.1 Natural selection in human populations

204

(5)

10.2 The aims and scope of eugenics

209

(4)

10.3 National socialist racial and social policy

213

(2)

10.4 The portrayal of the fit and the unfit

215

(3)

10.5 An alternative programme

218

(6)

10.6 Population improvement

224

(5)

Part eleven - The growth of the asylum

229

(25)

11.1 Contemporary accounts of the increase of insanity

229

(7)

11.2 The impact of industrialisation

236

(4)

11.3 Getting rid of 'inconvenient people'?

240

(4)

11.4 The effects of the whirling chair

244

(4)

11.5 The power of medical men?

248

(6)

Part twelve - War and medicine

254

(23)

12.1 Military medicine in the Crimea

254

(3)

12.2 Nursing in the Crimea

257

(3)

12.3 Civilian health in the First World War

260

(6)

12.4 The causes of shell-shock

266

(4)

12.5 Civilian health re-examined

270

(4)

12.6 The soldier's view

274

(3)

Part thirteen - Access to care, 1880-1930

277

(22)

13.1 Self-medication

277

(3)

13.2 Services under the National Health Insurance Act

280

(5)

13.3 Care in hospital

285

(7)

13.4 Resistance to care - sanatorium treatment

292

(4)

13.5 The health of working-class women

296

(3)

Index

299

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