Doctors, politics, and society : : historical essays / / 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...
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| Superior document: | Clio Medica ; 23 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi B.V.,, [1993] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 1993 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Clio Medica ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Acknowledgements / Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter
- Notes on Contributors / Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter
- Introduction / Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter
- Bentham's Utilitarianism and the Provision of Medical Care / Janet Semple
- Southwood Smith: The Intellectual Sources of Public Service / R. K. Webb
- Lyon Playfair and the Idea of Progress: Science and Medicine in Victorian Parliamentary Politics / Anne Hardy
- Désiré Magloire Bourneville and French Anticlericalism during the Third Republic / Bernard Brais
- The Demographic Argument in Soviet Debates over the Legalization of Abortion in the 1920s / Susan Gross Solomon
- Heinrich Zeiss, Hygiene and the Holocaust / Paul Weindling
- The Sick Poor and the State: Arthur Newsholme on Poverty, Disease and Responsibility / John M. Eyler
- The Metamorphosis of Dawson of Penn / Charles Webster
- Christopher Addison: a Realist in Pursuit of Dreams / Frank Honigsbaum
- John Ryle: Doctor of Revolution? / Dorothy Porter
- Doing History, Making Revolution: the Aspirations of Henry E. Sigerist and George Rosen / Elizabeth Fee and Edward T. Morman
- Back Matter / Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter.