Problems and methods in the history of medicine /
edited by Roy Porter and Andrew Wear.
- ix, 262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine .
- Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Annales and medical historiography / Toby Gelfand -- Twenty years on problems of historical methodology in the history of health / J.-P. Goubert -- Montpellier medical students and the medicalisation of 18th-century France / Colin Jones -- Popular culture and knowledge of the body / Françoise Loux -- Methodological problems in modern urban history writing / Arthur E. Imhof -- No death without birth / E.A. Wrigley -- Quantitative and qualitative perspectives on the asylum / Anne Digby -- Hospital history / Guenter B. Risse --Madness, suicide, and the computer / Michael MacDonald -- Interfaces / Andrew Wear.
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