Locating Medical History: The Stories and Their Meanings

by Warwick Anderson, Allan M. Brandt, Olga Amsterdamska, et al.

Book Overview

The issues constituting the history of medicine are consequential: how societies organize health care, how individuals or states relate to sickness, how we understand our own identity and agency as sufferers or healers. In Locating Medical History: The Stories and Their Meanings, Frank Huisman, John Harley Warner, and other eminent historians explore and reflect on a field that accommodates a remarkable diversity of practitioners and approaches.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801885485
• ISBN13: 9780801885488
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher