Medical Progress and Social Reality is an anthology of nineteenth-century literature on
medicine and medical practice. Situated at the interdisciplinary juncture of medicine, history …

This book is a case study of the way in which the writing of history was affectedby a
systematic concept. The case focuses on those who wrote medical history, and the specific …

This article surveys anglophone scholarship in the history of medicine over the past decade
or so. It selectively identifies and critically evaluates key themes and trends in the field. It …

First published in 1993, Literature & Medicine During the Eighteenth Century analyses the
close interplay of medicine and literature by paying special attention to questions of body …

ABSTRACT A generation ago the nineteenth century was at the heart of medical historical
scholarship, as the era when modern medicine was born. Over the last decade or so things …

Students of the history of medicine and of American history in general will welcome this
collection of thirty papers originally published in nineteenth-century medical journals and lay …

This is a comprehensive reference work which surveys all aspects of the history of medicine,
both clinical and social, and reflects the complementary approaches to the discipline. The …

This book considers the underlying forces which helped to produce a revolution in
seventeenth-century medicine. It shows how in the period between 1630 and 1730 medicine …

This essay examines nineteenth-century medical case histories as they evolved into a
recognizably modern form. Analyzing material from the specialist and generalist periodical …

This article discusses the transformation of medicine at the very end of the century and thus
represents a shift both in the training of medical practitioners and in accounts of the body …