Surgery and society in peace and war : orthopaedics and the organization of medern medicine, 1880-1948

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Surgery and society in peace and war : orthopaedics and the organization of medern medicine, 1880-1948

Roger Cooter

(Science, technology and medicine in modern history)

Macmillan in association with the Centre for the History of Science Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, 1993

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Bibliography: p. 357-373

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book illuminates how crucial transformations in medical politics and organisation were linked to wider changes in society, economy and ideology. Paying particular attention to developments in medical welfare for physically handicapped children, wounded soldiers and injured workers, this extensively documented study challenges conventional accounts of medical specialisation; provides Anglo-American comparisons; and demonstrates the importance for medical modernity of changing interactions between philanthropy, war, labour, capital and the state.

Table of Contents

List of Tables - List of Maps, Figures and Plates - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - The Medical Context of Bones - Politics and Professionalisation - The Cause of the Crippled Child - Happenings by Accident - The Great War - Industry and Labour, Part 1: Britain and America, 1920s - Colonisation Among Cripples - The Fracture Movement - Industry and Labour, Part 2: Rehabilitation and the Assault on Trauma, 1930s - The Phoney War - 'Adolescence's' End - Notes - Bibliography - Index

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  • NCID
    BA21022264
  • ISBN
    • 0333556208
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Basingstoke
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 399 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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