Social medicine and medical sociology in the twentieth century / / edited by Dorothy Porter.

Little attention has been paid to the history of the influence of the social sciences upon medical thinking and practice in the twentieth century. The essays in this volume explore the consequences of the interaction between medicine and social science by evaluating its significance for the moral an...

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Superior document:Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, Atlanta GA : : Rodopi,, 1997.
Year of Publication:1997
Language:English
Series:Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction / Dorothy Porter
  • Milton C. Winternitz and the Yale Institute of Human Relations: A Brief Chapter in the History of Social Medicine / Arthur J. Viseltear
  • Training Doctors for the National Health Service: Social Medicine, Medical Education and the GMC 1936–48 / Nigel Oswald
  • Making Medicine Social: The Case of the Two Dogs with Bent Legs / Ann Oakley
  • The Decline of Social Medicine in Britain in the 1960s / Dorothy Porter
  • Social Medicine and Medical Sociology 1950–1970: The Testimony of a Partisan Participant / Margot Jefferys
  • The Dilemma of Social Pathology / Uta Gerhardt
  • The Social Space of Illness / David Armstrong
  • Medicine, Diet and Moral Regulation: Foucault's Impact on Medical Sociology / Bryan S. Turner
  • Index / Dorothy Porter
  • Back Matter / Dorothy Porter.