Medicine, health, and the public sphere in Britain, 1600-2000 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Steve Sturdy

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1/0941/0903; 610.9
• Soggetto topico: Social medicine - Great Britain - History
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Social conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SturdySteve
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Medicine, Health and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1600-2000; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: medicine, health and the public sphere; Public-private interactions; Voluntary institutions and the public sphere; The state and the public sphere; Conclusions; Part I. Public-private interactions; 1. Public and private dilemmas: the College of Physicians in early modern London; Privacy and individualism; Early modern public spheres: the British case; The anomalousness of collegiate physicians; 'Public' and 'private' in collegiate practice ; 'Citizen' or contractual medicine: an alternative relationshipPrivacy and detachment; 2. Producing the public: public medicine in private spaces; Public, private and domestic; The social; Housing and public health; Octavia Hill: domesticating the poor; 3. 'Should the doctor tell?5: medical secrecy in early twentieth-century Britain; The BMA and medical ethics; Abortion and the problem of medical secrecy in Edwardian Britain; Venereal disease, divorce and medical secrecy; Should the judge order the doctor to tell?; Conclusion; Part II. Voluntary institutions and the public sphere ; 4. The Birmingham General Hospital and its public, 1765-79Birmingham, Warwickshire and the Bean Club, c. 1750-80; The making of the Birmingham General Hospital; Conclusion; 5. Between separate spheres: medical women, moral hygiene and the Edinburgh Hospital for Women and Children; Women's mission to women in nineteenth-century Edinburgh; Medical women, venereal diseases and NCCVD propaganda; The treatment of venereal diseases at the EHWC; Conclusions; 6. British voluntary hospitals and the public sphere: contribution and participation before the National Health Service ; Changing patterns of hospital fundingContribution and participation; Conclusions; 7. Representing 'the public9: medicine, charity and emotion in twentieth-century Britain; The public in the 1930s; The fragmentation of the public; Continuity and change; Conclusion; PART III. The state and the public sphere; 8. Policy, powers and practice: the public response to public health in the Scottish city; Civic government and the urban public 17; Sanitary reform and the literary sphere; Discourse and the legislative process; Debating public health practice 17; Conclusion ; 9. Public sphere to public health: the transformation ofPublic health, equality, liberty, property; Nuisances and common law; Nuisances in the bureaucratic state; Conclusion; 10. In the beginning was the lymph: the hollowing of stational vaccination in England and Wales, 1840-98; Public policy and the growth of stational vaccination; Vaccinators' objections to public vaccination; Parents' problems with stational vaccination; Public and private in the doctor-patient relationship; Conclusion: the hollowing of stational vaccination ; 11. The shaping of a public environmental sphere in late nineteenth-century London
• Sommario/riassunto: Medicine is concerned with the most intimate aspects of private life. Yet it is also a focus for diverse forms of public organization and action. In this volume, an international team of scholars use the techniques of medical history to analyse the changing boundaries and constitution of the public sphere from early modernity to the present day. In a series of detailed historical case studies, contributors examine the role of various public institutions - both formal and informal, voluntary and statutory - in organizing and coordinating collective action on medical matters. In so doing, th
• Titolo autorizzato: Medicine, health, and the public sphere in Britain, 1600-2000
• ISBN: 1-134-46792-3; 1-280-04664-3; 9786610046645; 0-203-52017-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996203080803316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; ; 16.