social medicine

A history of medicine from antiquity through the 1990s, focusing on medical ideas about disease, medical teachings about healthy and unhealthy bodies, and medical models of life and death, and discussing the people and professional groups who have been responsible for such beliefs and practices.

Examines medicine in nineteenth-century England, describing how apothecary apprentices, physicians, and surgeons were educated and approached diseases--including cholera, tuberculosis syphilis, and smallpox--and discusses the influence of gender and class ideology which individuals recieved medical training and care.

A debate-style reader designed to introduce students to controversies in health science and professional health with readings that represent the arguments of leading health care professionals, policymakers, and social commentators.

Studies how epidemics have changed history and how human behavior has contributed to the emergence and spread of disease.