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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 Jürgen Habermas.
Related link: The Society for the Social History of Medicine eBook available with sample pages: 0203520173
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.
This important collection presents a radical reconception of the
place of knowledge in contemporary policymaking in Europe, based
not on assumptions about evidence, expertise or experience but on
the different forms that knowledge takes. Knowledge is embodied in
people, inscribed in documents and instruments, and enacted in
specific circumstances. Empirical case studies of health and
education policy in different national and international contexts
demonstrate the essential interdependence of different forms and
phases of knowledge. They illustrate the ways in which knowledge is
mobilised and resisted, and draw attention to key problems in the
processing and transformation of knowledge in policy work. This
novel theoretical framework offers real benefits for policymakers,
academics in public policy, public administration, management
studies, sociology, education, public health and social work, and
those with a practical interest in education and health and related
fields of public policy.
This important collection presents a radical reconception of the
place of knowledge in contemporary policymaking in Europe, based
not on assumptions about evidence, expertise or experience but on
the different forms that knowledge takes. Knowledge is embodied in
people, inscribed in documents and instruments, and enacted in
specific circumstances. Empirical case studies of health and
education policy in different national and international contexts
demonstrate the essential interdependence of different forms and
phases of knowledge. They illustrate the ways in which knowledge is
mobilised and resisted, and draw attention to key problems in the
processing and transformation of knowledge in policy work. This
novel theoretical framework offers real benefits for policymakers,
academics in public policy, public administration, management
studies, sociology, education, public health and social work, and
those with a practical interest in education and health and related
fields of public policy.
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