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Health and Medicine in Britain since 1860

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Health and Medicine in Britain since 1860
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Anne Hardy
SeriesSocial History in Perspective
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 155
ISBN/Barcode 9780333600115
ClassificationsDewey:362.10941
Audience
A / AS level
Undergraduate
General
Illustrations 240 p.

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Red Globe Press
Publication Date 6 December 2000
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Since 1860, life expectancies and standards of general health have improved dramatically in industrialized societies. In the 1860s, there was little that medicine could do to cure or prevent illness, death rates were high and life expectancy short. This work sets out to examine the relationship between health and medicine and how it has changed in Britain over a period of 150 years. From the placebo effect and Viagra, through changes in society and in the organization, practice and expertise of medicine, it reviews the processes through which modern expectations of health have become established.

Author Biography

ANNE HARDY is a Lecturer in the History of Modern Medicine at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London.