Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain, 1700-1920 (Historical Connections)

by Christopher Lawrence (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1994

  $47.50

  Christopher Lawrence's critical overview of medicine's place in the development of modern Britain examines the significance of the clinical encounter in contemporary society.
  * first short synoptic study of its kind
  * breaks new ground by bringing together specialised scholarship into a broad argument
  * shows how the medical profession created a very specific role for itself
  * relates medicine to general social policy