Author: Sir Richard Thorne ThornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
On the progress of preventive medicine during the Victorian era
Author: Sir Richard Thorne ThornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Evolution of Preventive Medicine
Author: Sir Arthur NewsholmePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The Filth Disease
Author: Jacob Steere-WilliamsPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1648250025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Shows how the investigation of local outbreaks of typhoid fever in Victorian Britain led to the emergence of the modern discipline of epidemiology as the leading science of public health
The Future of Public Health
Author: Committee for the Study of the Future of Public HealthPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309581907
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.
Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London
Author: Matthew Newsom KerrPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319657682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This book is a history of London’s vast network of fever and smallpox hospitals, built by the Metropolitan Asylums Board between 1870 and 1900. Unprecedented in size and scope, this public infrastructure inaugurated a new technology of disease prevention—isolation. Londoners suffering from infectious diseases submitted themselves to far-reaching forms of surveillance, removal, and detention, which made them legible to science and the state in entirely new ways. Isolation on a mass scale transformed the meaning of urban epidemics and introduced contentious new relationships between health, citizenship, and the spaces of modern governance. Rich in archival sources and images, this engaging book offers innovative analysis at the intersection of preventive medicine and Victorian-era liberalism.
On the Progress of Preventive Medicine During the Victorian Era
Author: Sir Richard Thorne ThornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
On the Progress of Preventive Medicine During the Victorian Era
Author: R Thorne ThornePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781018973562
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England
Author: Mary Wilson CarpenterPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031306542X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This work offers a social and cultural history of Victorian medicine "from below," as experienced by ordinary practitioners and patients, often described in their own words. Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England is a human story of medicine in 19th-century England. It's a story of how a diverse and competitive assortment of apothecary apprentices, surgeons who learned their trade by doing, and physicians schooled in ancient Greek medicine but lacking in any actual experience with patients, was gradually formed into a medical profession with uniform standards of education and qualification. It's a story of how medical men struggled with "new" diseases such as cholera and "old" ones known for centuries, such as tuberculosis, syphilis, and smallpox, largely in the absence of effective drugs or treatments, and so were often reduced to standing helplessly by as their patients died. It's a story of how surgeons, empowered first by anesthesia and later by antiseptic technique, vastly expanded the field of surgery—sometimes with major benefits for patients, but sometimes with disastrous results. Above all, it's a story of how gender and class ideology dominated both practitioners and patients. Women were stridently excluded from medical education and practice of any kind until the end of the century, but were hailed into the new field of nursing, which was felt to be "natural" to the gentler sex. Only the poor were admitted to hospitals until the last decades of the century, and while they often received compassionate care, they were also treated as "cases" of disease and experimented upon with freedom. Yet because medical knowledge was growing by leaps and bounds, Victorians were fascinated with this new field and wrote novels, poetry, essays, letters, and diaries, which illuminate their experience of health and disease for us. Newly developed techniques of photography, as well as improved print illustrations, help us to picture this fascinating world. This vivid history of Victorian medicine is enriched with many literary examples and visual images drawn from the period.
British Medical Journal
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1536
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