Doctors, politics, and society : : historical essays / / edited by Dorothy Porter, Roy Porter.

• Superior document: Clio Medica ; 23
• TeilnehmendeR: Porter, Roy, 1946-2002,; Porter, Dorothy, 1953-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi B.V.,, [1993]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: English
• Series: Clio Medica ; 23.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Acknowledgements /; Notes on Contributors /; Introduction /; Bentham's Utilitarianism and the Provision of Medical Care /; Southwood Smith: The Intellectual Sources of Public Service /; Lyon Playfair and the Idea of Progress: Science and Medicine in Victorian Parliamentary Politics /; Désiré Magloire Bourneville and French Anticlericalism during the Third Republic /; The Demographic Argument in Soviet Debates over the Legalization of Abortion in the 1920s /; Heinrich Zeiss, Hygiene and the Holocaust /; The Sick Poor and the State: Arthur Newsholme on Poverty, Disease and Responsibility /; The Metamorphosis of Dawson of Penn /; Christopher Addison: a Realist in Pursuit of Dreams /; John Ryle: Doctor of Revolution? /; Doing History, Making Revolution: the Aspirations of Henry E. Sigerist and George Rosen /; Back Matter /
• ISBN: 9004418334
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Dorothy Porter, Roy Porter.

The great British reformer Jeremy Bentham wrote that 'the art of legislation is but the art of healing practised upon a large scale'. He added that 'It is the common endeavour of both to relieve men from the miseries of life. But the physician relieves them one by one: the legislator by millions at a time'. Bentham raised the question of the interplay of medicine with politics. It forms an important topic with powerful contemporary overtones. This volume, containing eleven essays plus a lengthy introduction, seeks to explore it historically. It takes a long perspective, covering the last two centuries and also an international viewpoint, examining Britain in detail but also containing contributions dealing with the United States, Germany, Russia and France.