Title: Medical Innovations in Historical Perspective
Abstract: Series Introduction - Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction J.V.Pickstone - 'Upon this Principle I have based a Practice'. The Development and Reception of Antisepsis in Britain, 1867-90 L.Granshaw - The Sanatorium Treatment for Consumption in Britain, 1890-1914 M.Worboys - From Medical Research to Clinical Practice: Serum Therapy for Diphtheria in the 1890s P.Weindling - Vaccine Therapy and Laboratory Medicine in Edwardian Britain M.Worboys - From the Trenches to the Hospitals at Home: Physiologists, Clinicians and Oxygen Therapy, 1914-30 S.Sturdy - X-Ray Technology in Obstetrics: Measuring Pelves at the Yale School of Medicine A.Hiddinga - The Politics of a Spatial Innovation: Fracture Clinics in Interwar Britain R.Cooter - Cortisone and the Politics of Drama, 1949-55 D.Cantor - Psychiatry in District General Hospitals: History, Contingency and Local Innovation in the Early Years of the National Health Service J.V.Pickstone - References - Index
Publication Year: 1992
Publication Date: 1992-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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