John burnham what is medical history

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Cancel Save settings. Bestselling Series. Harry Potter. Books By Language. Books in Spanish. What is Medical History? By author John C. Free delivery worldwide. Expected delivery to Germany in business days. Not ordering to the United States? Click here. Order now for expected delivery to Germany by Christmas. Description The field of the history of medicine and health has expanded spectacularly in recent times.

In What is Medical History? Burnham explores the reasons for this expansion, introducing medical history for those who know little of the subject. He sheds light on a field once written entirely by physicians, but which now attracts not only general historians but also policy makers and health care workers of all kinds. Burnham explains that people are drawn into reading and writing about five often controversial dramas inherent in the stories of: healers in all times and places, from conjurers to technical specialists; patients from all ages and cultures; diseases, from possession by demons, to infections that expand at the rate of an inch every half hour, to subtle environmental poisons; discovery and the communication of ideas, great and trivial, flawed and brilliant; continuing controversies around ways that health care delivery affected societies - and was shaped by societies and social institutions - through the ages.

Uniting all of these dramas, Burnham shows, was the tension between the forces of medicalization and the forces of demedicalization. Burnham, a distinguished and versatile historian of medicine and health, offers a colorful introduction to both traditional subjects, such as the evolution of medical instruments, and the latest controversies.

What is Medical History? By John C. Burnham, PhD Medical history is a rapidly expanding field of both general interest and specialized research. Online Payment Portal. Give to the MHC. Published December 1st by Polity Press first published April 8th More Details Original Title. Other Editions 2. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about What is Medical History? Be the first to ask a question about What is Medical History?

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