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The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500-2000 - Essays for Charles Webster (Hardcover, New edition):... The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500-2000 - Essays for Charles Webster (Hardcover, New edition)
Margaret Pelling; Scott Mandelbrote
R3,137 R1,271 Discovery Miles 12 710 Save R1,866 (59%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Histories of medicine and science are histories of political and social change, as well as accounts of the transformation of particular disciplines over time. Taking their inspiration from the work of Charles Webster, the essays in this volume consider the effect that demands for social and political reform have had on the theory and, above all, the practice of medicine and science, and on the promotion of human health, from the Renaissance and Enlightenment up to the present. The eighteen essays by an international group of scholars provide case studies, covering a wide range of locations and contexts, of the successes and failures of reform and reformers in challenging the status quo. They discuss the impact of religious and secular ideologies on ideas about the nature and organization of health, medicine, and science, as well as the effects of social and political institutions, including the professions themselves, in shaping the possibilities for reform and renewal. The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500-2000 also addresses the afterlife of reforming concepts, and describes local and regional differences in the practice and perception of reform, culminating in the politics of welfare in the twentieth century. The authors build up a composite picture of the interaction of politics and health, medicine, and science in western Europe over time that can pose questions for the future of policy as well as explaining some of the successes and failures of the past.

The Reception of Isaac Newton in Europe (Hardcover): Helmut Pulte, Scott Mandelbrote The Reception of Isaac Newton in Europe (Hardcover)
Helmut Pulte, Scott Mandelbrote
R15,014 Discovery Miles 150 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The writings and example of Isaac Newton transformed understandings of the practice and meaning of the sciences across Europe in the centuries following the publication of the Principia in 1687. The essays in these volumes consider the impact of Newton's ideas from three distinct but interlocking perspectives: their reception in particular geographical areas and language communities; their importance for particular fields of intellectual and practical endeavour, and their influence on other thinkers who, in turn, shaped Newton's intellectual legacy. They provide, for the first time, a picture of the fate of Newton's work across mainland Europe, giving an account of Newton's influence in the humanities, arts and social sciences, as well as in mathematics, physics and the natural sciences in general.

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