Synopses & Reviews
Since 1860, life expectancies and standards of general health have improved dramatically in industrialized societies. In the 1860s, there was little that medicine could do to cure or prevent illness, death rates were high and life expectancy short.
Health and Medicine in Britain since 1860 sets out to examine the relationship between health and medicine and how it has changed in Britain in the past 150 years. From the placebo effect to Viagra, through changes insociety and in the organization, practice and expertise of medicine, this volume reviews the processes through which modern expectations of health have become established.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-208) and index.
About the Author
Anne Hardy is a Lecturer in the History of Modern Medicine at Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University College, London.
Table of Contents
List of Tables List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction An Age of Great Cities, 1860-1914 Armageddon, 1914-1918 Renewal and Depression, 1918-1939 The Making of War, 1939-1945 A Golden Age? 1945-2000 Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index
Introduction * An Age of Great Cities, 1860-1914 * Armageddon, 1914-1918 * Renewal and Depression, 1918-1939 * The Making of War, 1939-1945 * A Golden Age? 1945-2000