This book, first published in 2006, is an authoritative description of the important changes in Western medicine over the past two centuries.

Essays on the career of William Hunter, physician, obstetrician, medical educator and man of culture.

From ancient Greece to the CAT scanner, these essays examine the 'education of the senses' in medical diagnosis and treatment.

In this fascinating study of the Edinburgh medical school in the early nineteenth century, L.S.Jacyna analyses the developments in medical education in the context of the ...

Therapeutics has been central to the medical enterprise in all times and all places, but a subject that is all too often neglected by historians. The essays in this volume ...

The long twentieth century has witnessed a tremendous upsurge in new drugs, remedies and therapeutic strategies. The cultural environments in which they emerged, the social ...

In the inter-war years there was much debate in Britain as to whether the best path to post-World War I regeneration would be found in the promises of science and technology ...

In eighteenth-century Britain, gaols were places of temporary confinement, where inmates stayed while awaiting punishment. With the rise of the 'penitentiary' from the early ...

There has been a growing recognition of the importance of mathematical and statistical methods in the history of medicine, particularly in those areas where statistical methods ...