Medicine in Wales, c. 1800-2000 : public service or private commodity? / edited by Anne Borsay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Borsay, Anne.

University of Wales. Board of Celtic Studies. History and Law Committee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care--Wales--History--19th century.

Medical care.

Medical care--Wales--History--20th century.

Medical policy--Wales--History--19th century.

Medical policy.

Medical policy--Wales--History--20th century.

Delibery of Health Care--history.

History.

Wales.

Public Health--history.

Health Policy--history.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

Medical Subjects:

Delibery of Health Care--history.

Wales.

Public Health--history.

Health Policy--history.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

Physical Description:

x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2003.

Summary:

Addressing the interface between medical history and the study of contemporary issues in medicine and health, this book pays particular attention to the conduct of clinical research, the relativity of medical knowledge, and the relationship between patients and practitioners. The contested boundaries between the public and the private are a defining feature of modernity and an important focus for postmodernist accounts of power and identity. The relationship between the state, scientific knowledge, and professional expertise is explored, and its implications for the producers and consumers of healthcare are discussed in terms of class and citizenship, family, gender and community, and the urban and rural contrasts within Welsh national identity.

Notes:

"Published on behalf of the History and Law Committee of the Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

070831824X

OCLC:

52485701