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Surgery and Society in Peac...
This book illuminates how crucial transformations in medical politics and organisation were linked to wider changes in society, economy and ideology. Paying particular attention to developments in medical welfare for physically handicapped children, wounded soldiers and injured workers, this extensively documented study challenges conventional accounts of medical specialisation; provides Anglo-American comparisons; and demonstrates the importance for medical modernity of changing interactions between philanthropy, war, labour, capital and the state
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monografia Rebiun25826941 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun25826941 m o d cr |n||||||||| 160219s1993 enk o 000 0 eng d 9781137102355 1137102357 9781349642830 print) 1349642835 10.1007/978-1-137-10235-5 doi VT2 eng pn VT2 OCLCO OCLCF OCLCQ LEAUB FIE OCLCQ PDX bicssc SCI034000 bisacsh 509 23 Cooter, Roger Surgery and Society in Peace and War Orthopaedics and the Organization of Modern Medicine, 1880-1948 by Roger Cooter London Palgrave Macmillan UK Imprint Palgrave Macmillan 1993 London London Palgrave Macmillan UK Imprint Palgrave Macmillan 1 online resource (XII, 399 pages) online resource 1 online resource (XII, 399 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History This book illuminates how crucial transformations in medical politics and organisation were linked to wider changes in society, economy and ideology. Paying particular attention to developments in medical welfare for physically handicapped children, wounded soldiers and injured workers, this extensively documented study challenges conventional accounts of medical specialisation; provides Anglo-American comparisons; and demonstrates the importance for medical modernity of changing interactions between philanthropy, war, labour, capital and the state History History, Modern Orthopedics History History, Modern Orthopedics Printed edition 9781349642830 Science, technology, and medicine in modern history