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"An Introduction to the Social History of Medicine is a one-volume, detailed survey of the major debates and themes in the history of western medicine, from the early modern period to the present. Combining specialized knowledge with new ways of thinking about the subject, this lucidly written, illustrated text brings together the latest research with a fresh approach to the history of medicine and explores traditional views and questions existing orthodoxies. Features: Surveys the major topics and themes in the history of medicine - Assesses current historiography - Covers the experience of sickness, as well as its treatment - Provides chronologies and guides to further reading to aid further study. This accessible but challenging new textbook is the essential introduction to the history of medicine"--Provided by publisher

Medical Education at St Bartholomew's Hospital traces the evolution of medical education at Barts from its foundation in 1123 to the college's merger with The London and Queen Mary & Westfield College in 1995. Drawing on the hospital's rich archives, it investigates how training was institutionalised and organised at Barts to explore the shifting nature of medical education between the eighteenth and late-twentieth century

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Reflecting on the discipline over the last 60 years, this historiographical essay considers how social historians of medicine might deal with the problem that 'modernity' and its associated phenomena—progress, tradition and backwardness—have become normalised. It argues that such terms require conscious interrogation and should be situated within a critique of sources, actors' categories and competing historical interpretations. The essay suggests three routes out of the problem of modernity. First, by shifting the focus to re-interrogate those areas commonly framed as backward; secondly, by using the metaphor of 'blended modernities' to examine commonalities across time and space and finally, by employing the everyday as an analytical category to approach those ambiguities and ambivalences that helped structure the nineteenth- and twentieth-century social history of medicine.