Full Description
During the twentieth century, medicine has been radically transformed and powerfully transformative. In 1900, western medicine was important to philanthropy and public health, but it was marginal to the state, the industrial economy and the welfare of most individuals. It is now central to these aspects of life. Our prospects seem increasingly dependent on the progress of bio-medical sciences and genetic technologies which promise to reshape future generations.
The editors of Medicine in the Twentieth Century have commissioned over forty authoritative essays, written by historical specialists but intended for general audiences. Some concentrate on the political economy of medicine and health as it changed from period to period and varied between countries, others focus on understandings of the body, and a third set of essays explores transformations in some of the theatres of medicine and the changing experiences of different categories of practitioners and patients.
Contents
Section 1: IntroductionSection 2: Power1. Production, Community and Consumption: The Politcal Economy of Tentieth Century Medicine 2. The Golden Age of Medicine? Science and Medicine, 1880-2000 3. Health and Medicine in Interwar Europe 4. Soviet Medicine 5. Colonial Medicine 6. Health and Healthcare in the Progressive Era 7. History of Post-Colonial Medicine 8. Medicine and Counter-Culture 9. Medicine and th eWelfare State 1930-1970 10. The Pharmaceutical Industry in the Twentieth Century 11. Medicine, Technology and Industry 12. Welfare StatesSection 3: Bodies1. The Historiographical Body 2. The Healthy Body 3. The Industrial Body 4. The 'Third World Body' 5. The Temporal Body 6. The Sexual Body 7. The Reproductive Body 8. The Psychological body 9. The Psychoanalytic body 10. The Psychiatric Body 11. The Diseased Body 12. The Disabled Body 13. The Genetic Body 14. The Analysed Body 15. The Experimental Body 16. The Ethical Body 16. The Dead Body Section 4: Experiences1. Media 2. Hospitals 3. Nurses 4. Health Workers 5. Going to the Doctor 6. Childbirth and Maternity 7. Children's Experience of Illness 8. Wars 9. Supported Lives 10. Old Age 11. Mental Illness 12. Surgeons 13. Cancer 14. AIDS and Patient/Support Groups 15. Malaria 16. The Chinese Experience
