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Medicine, Health and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1600-2000 (Paperback)
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Medicine, Health and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1600-2000 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
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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, they challenge the determinism and
fatalism of Habermas's overarching and functionalist account of the
rise and fall of the public sphere. Of essential interest to
historians and sociologists of medicine, this book will also be of
value to historians of modern Britain, historical sociologists, and
those engaged in studying the work of Jurgen Habermas.
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